2. Teaching Students With Disabilities
• This year we have several students who have disabilities. The students
disabilities include:
• ADHD
• Auditory Disability (Requires special device in order to hear)
• Mild Learning disability (impact all areas especially reading and writing)
3. Helping our students with a Auditory Diability
• Instructional Practices- Giving students notes of the lesson ahead of time.
This is a instructional practice that allows students to follow along with the
lesson just incase they may miss something while the teacher is teaching.
“Often times, deaf or hard of hearing individuals find it difficult to watch
the speaker or interpreter and take notes at the same time.”(2009)
• Assistive Technologies- Caption Mic is a type of technology where the
teacher speaks into a microphone and it converts the information the teacher
is speaking into captioning to be read by the hearing impaired student.
4. Helping Our Students With ADHD
• Instructional Practices- Students with ADHD most of the time have trouble
completing assignments even after receiving directions or instructions several times
to do so. Here are a few ways for us to eliminate this issue:
• Present the task in the most interesting and attractive manner possible
• Rewrite directions at a lower reading level
• Provide the students with more than enough time to finish an activity
• Have student repeat the instructions to the teacher
• Deliver verbal directions in a more basic way
• Prevent the student from becoming overstimulated by an activity
5. Mild Learning Disability
• Students will what is considered a mild learning disability are significantly
below average general intellectual functioning.
• Assistive Technology to help with students with mild learning disabilities:
• Low-tech solutions could be as simple has helping students with organizing their
thoughts using webs and flow charts.
• Using the computer to do their work. This would enable the students to use spell check,
dictionary, and thesaurus etc.
• Using calculators in math is a great way to help students with this disability.
6. References
• Behrmann, Michael, and Marci K. Jerome. "Assistive Technology for
Students with Mild Disabilities (continued)." Education.com. N.p., 16 Dec.
2008. Web. 24 Feb. 2015.
• "Hearing Assistive Technology (HATS) for Children." www.asha.org. American
Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 1997-2015. Web. 24 Feb. 2015.
