The document discusses assistive technology and learning disabilities. It provides an overview of assistive technology considerations for IEP teams, how students learn, and where breakdowns can occur. It also discusses principles for assistive technology, challenges with written expression, and tools that can help with writing, reading, and accommodating learning disabilities including speech recognition software, writing strategies software, and reading software.

1. Assistive Technology and Learning Disabilities Karen Janowski Simmons College 3/08

6. Where is the Breakdown? http://flickr.com/photos/aussiegall/276131991/

8. Guiding Principles

11. Written Expression

26. Inspiration Kurzweil Solo Writing with Symbols Read and Write Gold WordQ Fable Vision – Essay Express Clicker 5 Classroom Suite (you will explore this more in the next class)

29. What does it feel like to struggle at school? (Google – PBS Misunderstood Minds)

33. Stories written with SR were longer, more complex, and contained fewer grammatical errors compared to other methods. (Graham,1999)

34. Research shows marked improvement. (Graham, 1999)

41. Reading

42. Brain Rules by John Medina The Power of Reading by Stephen Krashen Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and What You Can do About It by Kelly Gallagher

43. Tools help us become Architect s for Change

44. ‘ We’re not reading and writing across and down the page anymore. We’re reading and writing in three dimensions – across, down and out, the out being hyperlinks.

45. It’s a whole different kind of literacy; it's a whole different kind of writing; it’s a whole different kind of reading. It’s a type of literacy that can’t be done anywhere else but on the web. James Yap Director of instructional technology Ramapo Central School District, Hillburn, NY T.H.E Jounal, april 2009 p. 24

46. It’s a different world for our students

48. What does the research say?

49. National Reading Panel The Big Five 5

55. Summary Table for the FCRR Reports

56. What WorksClearinghouse

57. Tools for Developing Reading Skills

62. Technology for Reading Support

64. Technology for Reading Accommodation

65. Interactive Accessible

68. UDL Tech Toolkit http://UDLTechToolkit.wikispaces.com

70. It’s a different world for our students