2. What is Assistive Technology?
O Also known as “Adaptive Technology,”
refers to any assistive, adaptive, or
rehabilitative device for students with
disabilities.
O The aim of these devices are to help
students develop greater independence in
order to accomplish tasks that might
otherwise be impossible.
3. What is an IEP?
O Stands for: Individualized Education
Plan
O Students with special needs like having
delayed skills or a learning disability are
eligible for special services.
O Parents and educators work together to
develop this plan which will enable
students to be successful in School.
O Students with an IEP often use Assistive
Technology
4. Who needs it?
O Students who commonly may need this
assistance may have:
O Learning disabilities (including ADHD)
O Emotional Disorders
O Cognitive Challenges
O Autism
O Hearing or Visual Impairment
5. A Closer Look
The ADHD Child
O Common problems with ADHD students
include
distractibility, inattention, impulsivity, and
hyperactivity.
6. Strategies and Assistive
Technologies for ADHD
O Common approaches O Common Assistant
for students with Technology Devices
ADHD include: may include:
behavior modification; O Timers, Stopwatches
social skills training; O Portable Word
Processors, PDAs, I
positive PADS
reinforcement; and O Computer games
self-management that promote
strategies that organizational and
promote time management
skills.
organization, time-
management, and
completion skills.
7. A Closer Look
The Auditory Disabled Child
O Includes those
students with:
O Mild Hearing Loss -
not hearing sounds
below 30 decibels
O Profound Hearing
Loss -not hearing
sounds below 95
decibels or the
inability to complete
hear
O There are various
degrees in between
8. Strategies and Assistive
Technology for Auditory Disability
O Common Approaches O Common Devices for
hearing loss may
for the hearing include:
disabled may include: O FM (frequency
Sign Language modulation) system
O Other Amplifying
Translator, Pairing the Systems
student with a peer O Variable Speech
aid who may take recorder (can play
audio bits back more
notes for them, Visual slowly)
Notes to accompany O Computer Aided Real
Lecturing. Time Translation/
Captions, Subtitles
9. A Closer Look
Learning Disabilities in
Reading and Writing
O Common symptoms are difficulty
identifying letters and words, messy
handwriting, incorrect and staggered
reading, struggling to express ideas, and
late language acquisition.
10. Strategies and Assistive
Technology for Reading and
Writing Disabilities
O Common Approaches O Common assistive
may include breaking technology may
down tasks into include Audiobooks,
smaller steps, written and Word
and verbal
Processing
instruction, an
Software with
assisting note-
taker, Audiobooks, an grammar and Spell-
d Word Processing check.
Software with
grammar and Spell-
check.
