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Assistive Technology

This presentation is an overview of assistive technology and how it can be successfully implemented by children with disabilities in the classroom.

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Assistive Technology

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  1. Assistive Technolony Created By Emily Reding

  2. What is assistive technology When it comes to Assistive Technology, one must first understand that Assistive Technology includes devices and services. IDEA defines an AT service as: Any service that directly assists a child with a disability in the selection, acquisition, or use of an assistive technology device. IDEA defines an AT device as: Any item, piece of equipment, product system, whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified, or customized, that is used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of a child with a disability. IDEA 2004, Wrightslaw: Special Education Law, 2nd Edition, p. 49.

  3. What the law has to say about Assistive technology • IDEA 2004 requires IEP teams to consider the assistive technology needs of all children with disabilities to receive a “free and appropriate public education.” It is also the IEP team that initiates a request for an AT assessment. • This assessment may be performed by school district personnel, or an outside consultant working in conjunction with the IEP team. • It is the school district’s responsibility to help select and acquire the technology as well as provide assistive technology training for the teachers, child, and family. Raskind, M. (2006, February 17). Assistive Technology: A Parent's Guide. Retrieved October 31, 2014, from http://www.greatschools.org/pdfs/e_guide_at.pdf?date=3-13-06&status=new

  4. Implementing Assistive technology Assistive technology can have a tremendous impact on children with both learning disabilities as well as physical disabilities when it comes to accessing the world around them. • For instance, a child who is hearing impaired could benefit from a device called an FM System. An FM System: • Allows the child to hear the teacher’s voice at a constant intensity level regardless of the distance between the child and the teacher. • The teacher’s voice can be heard more prominently than background noise. • Allow for self-monitoring of the child’s own voice through the conventional hearing aid microphone. • This microphone can be turned off allowing the child to focus solely on the teacher.

  5. Implementing Assistive Technology (cont.) Visually Impaired • For a child who is visually impaired, the use of a handheld magnifier would be beneficial. • A handheld magnifier is an optical device that provides magnification and/or illumination. • A typical student who would use a portable magnifier is a student with low vision who has difficulty reading regular print and requires immediate enlargement of text and/or graphics.

  6. Implementing Assistive Technology (Cont.) Learning Disability • A child who has a learning disability might use an alternative keyboard. • These programmable keyboards have special overlays that customize the appearance and function of a standard keyboard. Students who have LD or have trouble typing may benefit from customization that reduces input choices, groups keys by color/location, and adds graphics to aid comprehension. Alternative Keyboard

  7. Implementing Assistive Technology (Cont.) Physical Disabilities • One device that children with physical disabilities can benefit from is a joystick. • This would be used as an alternative to a mouse. These joysticks have the benefit of activating the computer with different parts of the body, such as the head or chin, without the use of hands. • Joysticks offer three types of control—digital, glide, and direct. • Digital control allows movement in a limited number of directions. • Glide and direct control allow movement in all directions. • Direct control joysticks have the added ability of responding to the distance and speed with which the user moves the stick. Joy Stick

  8. References • Raskind, M. (2006, February 17). Assistive Technology: A Parent's Guide. Retrieved October 31, 2014, from http://www.greatschools.org/pdfs/e_guide_at.pdf?date=3-13-06&status=new • Hearing Assistive Technology (HATS) for Children. (n.d.). Retrieved October 31, 2014, from http://www.asha.org/public/hearing/Hearing-Assistive-Technology-for-Children/ • Burton, M., Knipe, C., Midtdal, V., Rathwell, D., & Wong, F. (2008). Reading Strategies for Students with Visual Impairments: A Classroom Teacher's Guide. • Stanberry, K., & Raskind, M. (2009, January 1). Assistive Technology for Kids with Learning Disabilities: An Overview. Retrieved October 31, 2014, from http://www.readingrockets.org/article/assistive-technology-kids-learning-disabilities-overview • Torreno, S. (2012, July 12). Personal Computing Assistive Technology for Disabled Students: Keyboards & Mice. Retrieved October 31, 2014, from http://www.brighthubeducation.com/special-ed-inclusion-strategies/47379-mouse-and-keyboard-assisstive-technology-options/ • Willings, C. (2014, April 28). Assistive Technology for Students who are Blind or Visually Impaired. Retrieved October 31, 2014, from http://www.teachingvisuallyimpaired.com/assistive-technology.html • Borovoy, A. (2014, January 17). Five-Minute Film Festival: The Power of Assistive Technology. Retrieved October 31, 2014, from http://www.edutopia.org/blog/film-festival-assistive-technology

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