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Understanding Assistive Technology for Children with Disabilities: Tools for Enhanced Learning

Assistive technology encompasses any item or system that enhances, maintains, or improves the functional capabilities of children with disabilities. It plays a crucial role in educational settings, including general classrooms, special education, and gifted programs, helping these students engage better and meet their academic and emotional needs. By considering learning styles and individual capabilities, assistive technology aims to support children facing challenges such as learning disabilities, autism, and attention deficits, ultimately fostering inclusion and participation in educational activities.

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Understanding Assistive Technology for Children with Disabilities: Tools for Enhanced Learning

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  1. Assistive Technology Brandon Focht Claire Grgic Betsie Naylor

  2. What is assistive technology? Any item, piece of equipment, or product system that is used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of a child with a disability. Helps to improve learning and participation in activates.

  3. What is assistive technology? Any item, piece of equipment, or product system that is used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of a child with a disability. Helps to improve learning and participation in activates.

  4. Where can assistive technology be found? • General classroom • Helps to enhance the knowledge of students. • Special education classrooms • Helps with physical and mental disabilities. • Gifted classrooms • Designed for gifted students. • Technology can help keep the students engaged meet their academic needs, and address their social and emotional needs.

  5. General classroom • Assistive Technology is seen in almost every general classroom today. • Power Point • Computer games • Helps catch signs of learning problems

  6. Considerations for Assistive Technology To determine the needs of a child you have to consider some things. Learning styles Capability

  7. Special education Helps children with learning problems and disabilities Helps children to accomplish an educational task

  8. Assistive Technology Act1998 • An act to support programs of grants to states to address the assistive technology needs of individuals with disabilities, and for other purposes. • Short title; table contents • Findings and Purposes • Right of individuals • Definitions and Rules • Provides services

  9. Learning disabilities Trouble with reading and writing Attention deficits Autism Dyslexia

  10. Alternate Keyboards Shows pictures on the keyboard. Press the picture and it will spell out the word. Also has large letters to spell out words

  11. Alphasmart • Helps students with • Attention deficits • Autism • Students who are mute

  12. itouch • Several Assistive apps • Some free • Option to customize • Helps students with a variety of learning disabilities • http://tttdemo.mytaptotalk.com/tttplayer.htm?id=demo&album=101

  13. Voiceover • Helps students who have difficulty reading

  14. CoWriter • Helps students who have difficulty writing • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWEKwJ-BBJ4

  15. Physical disabilities

  16. Wiki

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