Assistive Technology overview and examples for mild disabilities, auditory disabilities, and ADHD

1. Assistive Technology
BY: MELISSA BROWN

2. What is an IEP?
 Individualized
Education Plan
 Developed by
parents and teachers
to help children with
delayed skills or
disabilities succeed
in school. (1)

3. Who Needs an IEP?
 A child who has difficulty learning and
functioning and has been identified as a special
needs student with any of the following: (1)
• LEARNING DISABILITIES
•ADHD
•EMOTIONAL DISORDERS
• COGNITIVE CHALLENGES
• AUTISM
• HEARING IMPAIRMENT
• VISUAL IMPAIRMENT
• SPEECH OR LANGUAGE
IMPAIRMENT
• DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY

4. What is Assistive Technology?
 Includes assistive, adaptive, and
rehabilitative devices for those with
disabilities and also includes the
process used in selecting, locating, and
using them.
 Assistive technology promotes greater
independence by enabling people to
perform tasks that they were formerly
unable to accomplish, or had great
difficulty accomplishing. (2)

5. How to Choose Assistive Technology?
 Six Questions
Step 1: What strategies have been found to
work best?
Step 2: What is preventing him/her from
participating more? (3)

6. How to Choose Assistive Technology?
 Six Steps Continued…
Step 3: What can be observed that indicates
the intervention is successful? What is his/her
current level of participation and what
observable behaviors will reflect an increase
in independent interactions?
Step 4: Do the child’s needs include supports
for movement, communication and/or use of
materials? (3)

7. How to Choose Assistive Technology?
 Six Steps Continued…
Step 5: Determine when the AT intervention
will begin and create an observation plan to
record how the child participates with the AT
supports.
Step 6: Identify what worked. (3)

8. Assistive Technologies for Mild
Disabilities
 Video-taping lessons
 Sending class notes or
presentations to students
via e-mail
 Using notebook
computers
 Word processing
software for students
with writing barriers (4)

9. Assistive Technology for Auditory
Disabilities
 FM Systems
 Infrared Systems
 Induction Loop
Systems
 One-to-one
Communicators (5)

10. Assistive Technology for ADHD
 Electronic math worksheet
software
 Talking calculators
 Audio books
 OCR programs (6)
 Brain Games
 PDAs
 Noise Cancellation Ear
Plugs
 E-Dictionaries (7)

11. Works Cited
(1) Lyness, A. (2014, September 1). Individualized Education
Programs (IEPs). Retrieved October 1, 2014.
(2) Assistive technology. (2014, March 10). Retrieved October 1,
2014.
(3) Help for Young Learners: How To Choose AT? (2010, January 1).
Retrieved October 1, 2014.
(4) Assistive Technology for Students with Mild Disabilities: Update
2002. ERIC Digest. (2002, January 1). Retrieved October 1, 2014.
(5) Hearing Assistive Technology. (n.d.). Retrieved October 1, 2014.
(6) Raskind, M., & Stanberry, K. (2009, January 1). The Best
Software and Gadgets for ADHD Students. Retrieved October 1,
2014.
(7) Assistive Technology for ADHD, ADD Inattention. (2012,
January 1). Retrieved October 1, 2014.