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Assistive Technology

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Assistive Technology

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  1. Assistive Technology Stephen Chandler University of west Alabama

  2. Assistive Technology • Assistive technology (often abbreviated as AT) is any item, piece of equipment, software or product system that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities. • Assistive technology includes products and services to help people who have difficulty speaking, typing, writing, remembering, pointing, seeing, hearing, learning, walking, etc.

  3. Assistive Technology---The Law The federal government recognized the importance of assistive technology for students when it revised the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) in 1997 and again in 2004. IDEA states that school districts must consider assistive technology for any child in special education. That means that for any child receiving special education services, the educational team must ask if there is a device that will “increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities” of that child. If the answer is yes, the school district must provide certain services: • A qualified evaluator must complete an assistive technology evaluation • The evaluator recommends a device • Device must be acquired • Child and/or the staff at school need training to use the device, that training must be provided, too.

  4. Continuum from Low Tech to High Tech No/Low Tech Mid Tech High Tech Simple Little Maintenance No electronics Some Maintenance Some Training More Electronics More Maintenance More Training Complex Electronics

  5. hearing impaired Personal FM System FM stands for frequency-modulated radio transmission. An FM system is an electronic device which transmits sound. The teacher wears a microphone to a student wearing a receiver which is connected by a cord to the his hearing aid(s). It allows the student to hear the teacher’s voice in noisy environments where there is background noise. As with a student’s hearing aid, the FM unit should be checked on a daily basis.

  6. Seeing impaired Magnifiers can help to enlarge printed text on paper or monitors. There are mountable screens, hand-held magnifier sheets and scopes, glasses and magnifiers on stands that can be used. Some include lights for focused reading. The student holds the magnifier over the text to be read and adjusts its position as needed. Views can be increased from 2X to 12X the original size. Primer is a hand-held electronic magnifier that connects in minutes to any television set to let you magnify from 8X to 15X.

  7. Learning disabled

  8. Physically disabled Where a person does not have reliable muscle control in the hands for precision movements, an adaptive keyboard can be useful. Some adaptive keyboards have raised areas in between the keys, rather than lowered areas, to allow the person to first place the hand down on the keyboard, then slide the finger into the correct key. A person with tremors, or spastic movements could benefit from this type of keyboard. Keyboard overlays are also available as an adaptation to standard keyboards, which achieve the same results. In some cases, adaptive keyboards come with specialized software with word-completion technology, allowing the person to type with fewer keystrokes, since typing can be rather laborious and slow otherwise.

  9. References 5 Powerful Assistive Technologies Being Used In Classrooms. (n.d.). Retrieved January 20, 2015, from http://www.edudemic.com/assistive-technologies/ 8 Helpful Assistive Technology Tools For Your Classroom. (2013, May 15). Retrieved January 21, 2015, from http://www.teachthought.com/technology/8 helpful- assistive-technology-tools-for-your- classroom Assistive technology basics. (n.d.). Retrieved January 20, 2015, from https://www.understood.org/en/school-learning/assistive- technology/assistive-technologies- basics Assistive technology for kids with LD: An overview. (n.d.). Retrieved January 19, 2015, from http://www.greatschools.org/special-education/assistive-technology/702-assistive-technology-for-kids-with-learning-disabilities-an-overview.gs? Special Education in the Classroom. (n.d.). Retrieved January 20, 2015, from http://education.state.mn.us/MDE/EdExc/SpecEdClass/

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