- How can students learn something with the aid of technology that they might have struggled with using conventional ways of teaching/instruction?
- Legal and Policies - passed to provide students with devices to help and be included in IEP's
- Implications of NCLB - how do we get everyone to achieve
- Training professionals - how to integrate and communicate with staff from all departments
- Shift to mainstreaming - what is required for students to succeed in an inclusion classroom
- Universal Design - provide students with options in how the material is represented, how the students can express themselves, and how they will be engaged in the material.
- Web accessibility - designing websites so that people with disabilities are able to use them easily
Strategies based on Integrating for Different Types of Disabilities
Cognitive Disabilities
- Use software programs to help students work on building certain skills:
- Reading skills - Reader Rabbit, Quictionary Reading Pen (text to speech)
- Writing skills - Voice recognition programs Dragon Naturally Speaking, WYNN, Project Poster and Hollywood High
- Video instruction for those with low reading skills
- Alternative Keyboards built to meet the child's needs
Physical Disabilities
- Joystick for their wheel chair
- Switches and special keyboards
Sensory Disabilities
- Screen readers for the blind
- Magnification tools (CCTV)
- FM amplification system - teacher wears mic
Gifted and Talented
- Internet allows access to electronic communities and the ability to greater research areas of interest
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