Adaptive and Assistive Technology

Students with Cognitive Disabilities

• Suffer from learning disabilities,
• emotional disabilities,
• and intellectual disabilities.
• They often struggle with reading, writing, memory, and retention of information.

Natural Reader

• Converts text or documents to speak or audio files
• Highlights text while reading
• Large font and high color contrast
• Tying echo, spell check, word prediction
• Allows students to read and write about our topic

Simon Sounds It Out

• Delivers individual phonics instruction
• Corrective Feedback
• Self-paced
• Provides teachers with progress reports
• Helps support students while reading.
• You can also assign content-specific reading.

Students with Physical Disibilities

• Typically affect mobility and agility
• Difficulties with gross- and fine-motor movement
• Tools should provide the individual to function across environments: home, school, community, and eventually work.

Keyboard Alternatives

• Smaller keyboards for limited range of movement
• Larger keyboards for more space between keys
• Touch keyboards on the screen
• Joystick-controlled keyboards on the screen
• Gloves with pressure points to assist in pressing a key
• This will allow students to use a device to research our topic.

Eye-Tracking: Gaze Interaction

• Allows user to navigate and control computer with eyes
• Perform wide range of tasks to communicate more efficiently and live more independent lives
• Communicate through dictation software, surf the web, send messages,and control the physical environment
• This will allow the student to participate in research for our topic and communicate with the teacher and peers.

Students with Sensory Disabilities

• Impairments associated with complete loss of vision or some visual acuity.
• Impairments associated with complete loss of hearing or hard-of-hearing.

Screen Readers: JAWS

• Job Access With Speech provides speech and braille output for individuals who are blind or visually impaired.
• Compatible with screen magnifiers, OpenBook, and devices that support touch screen and gesture reading.
• This will allow the student to participate in the shared readings and research for our topic.

Purple: Relay Video Services

• Allows deaf or hard-of-hearing to communicate with hearing community.
• Service provides American Sign Language interpreters to help communicate over video chat.
• Can be used to help students and edcucators communicate.
• This will allow the student to collaborate with peers and the teacher.

At-Risk Students

• Have a higher probability of failing academically or dropping out of school.
• At risk can refer to: learning disabilities, low test scores, disciplinary issues, grade retentions, and other learning-related factors.

1:1 Devices

• Reports have found positive impact on student learning.
• Devices are readily available for multiple uses throughout the day.
• Instant access to online materials can lead to engagement and participation of the topic learning.

Blended Learning: Edmodo

• Collaborative discussions
• Project-based activities
• Create own products individually and collectively
• Students working with teacher and technology tend to show interest in the topic and succeed at the project

Gifted and Talented Students

• High achievement capabilities: intellectually, creatively, artistically, and as a leader.
• Technologies can improve the quality of education for G.A.T.E students by differentiating instruction and providing a creative outlet.

Webquests

• Allow for differentiated instruction
• Students use higher-order thinking to solve problems
• This will allow my students to complete the same performance task with harder content

Collaboration: iPopp

• Students can work on similar projects with students around the globe.
• Students can still learn the content that the rest of the class is, only while collaborating with other students who are working on a project with the same content area.