1. Present Your Finding
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Education W200
Alanna Turner

2. Menu
Here are my three articles. Click the shapes for the information.
Making Informed Special Ed.
Assistive Technology Pupils Find
Decisions for Students Learning Tool in
With High Incidence iPad Applications
Disabilities
Adventures
in
Cybercamp
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3. Summary: Making Informed Assistive
Technology Decisions for Students With
High Incidence Disabilities
 This article is all about how Special education teachers and
individualized education program (IEP) team members
throughout the country are struggling to make appropriate
decisions regarding assistive technology (AT) for students
with high incidence disabilities.
 They are trying to make sure they come up will successful
and efficient assistive technologies for students. There is
some many things to consider or guidelines.

4. Summary Continued
There are a lot acts or legal information that are associated with
IEP and AT. A lot of them were created so people with disables
would be able to be successful and have thing that help them in
school. Such as:
* The Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA).
This Act stipulated that individuals with disabilities be given
equal access to public education, employment,
transportation, recreation, and health care. Title IV of this
Act specifically addresses AT, requiring telephone
companies to provide telecommunication services for
individuals with hearing impairments.
The 1998 Amendment to Section 508 of the
Rehabilitation Act. This Act required that all electronic or
information technology that is developed, procured,
maintained, or used by the federal government be
accessible to individuals with disabilities, unless an undue
burden would be imposed on the agency.
 The Assistive Technology Act of 1998. This Act
stipulated that further development and use of AT has
profound implications for improving the lives of individuals
with disabilities throughout the United States. It provided
states with additional funding to develop comprehensive
AT programs and advocacy services for individuals with
disabilities. The legislation also recognized the potential
benefits of incorporating AT during the production phase of
new products using the principles of Universal Design

5. “a-ha” Moments
 I did not know that we had so many Acts that had
something to do with people with disabilities.
 It surprising how much you have to go throw with
the IEP and AT to be able to do anything, but I
guess that is a good thing because you only want
the best for our children.

6. Summary: Special Ed. Pupils Find
Learning Tool in iPad Applications
 The ipad has become known to be a very useful tool in
education and with many special education students no
matter what disabilities they have.
 Teachers or people that work with this students found that
the Apple have a lot of applications that helps disabled kids
be able to do things they couldn’t before. Things like speech
or communicate with peers, focusing, math problems, and
many more.
 This articles gives you plenty of examples that touch your
about the ipad actually being put to good use.

7. Summary Continued
 For example one of the girls in the article has Down Syndrome
and had trouble forming words or specking where people could
understand her. So this made her shy and didn’t really interact
with the other kids until she got an ipad. She would use this
program called Proloquo2Go, which has pictures and phrases
that she could pick from to help people better understand her.
 You think that providing the ipad for school would be expensive
but not really. Teachers have found was to provide them, a lot of
school already have at least a few. They are cheaper them
trying to by a laptop for the children and a lot more effective.

8. “a-ha” Moments
 Something that I thought was really interesting was that
there is even an application that can help deaf students. It
explains things like “that was a piece of cake” better so they
don’t really think that we are taking about cake.
 The price of the ipad and how many school already provide
them to special education students.
 The battery life and ipad is amazing. It helps when trying to
use them in class they will always be ready and last all day
at school.
 Educators trust the students with this technology, some even
let them take it home. The children that use them understand
that they will not be replaced so they take care of it.
"Especially when you work with the special-needs population, you
really need to find ways to reach out to the kids," Mr. Kaufman said."
Anything that will reach a kid and make them excited about learning,
let's try it."

9. Summary: Adventures in Cybercamp
 Candace Goldstein is the author of this article. She is a teacher in New
Jersey that has a camp associated with school called Cybercamp, a
special technology summer camp, and the benefits of using technology
within the curriculum.
 She is a special education teach that works with the camp and noticed
that it was been a huge hit. Technology has helped kids with disabilities
focus better they have to use all there senses to go through programs.
 "The sights and sounds offered by the graphics on the Internet help the
child to locate the information needed. After the necessary details are
filtered out, the student is able to focus on completion of the task.“
 Teaching the how to use the internet and the do’s and don’t isn’t as
easy as you think. She has come up with different ways that help like
she makes her student keep site journals. Also when introducing new
things that printing the addressing or websites on note cards helps.
 Web quests are very useful they came up with many projects that you
could do with children with the internet.

10. Summary Continued
There are things you have to worry about with kids using the
internet though. She thinks it is the best idea to get permission
from all the parents that it is okay for their kids to use the
internet.
 Some of the rules they have are:
- Never give out personal information over the Internet.
- Never meet anyone you contact over the Internet.
- Immediately report any site that makes you
uncomfortable.
- Immediately report any e-mail you receive that makes
you uncomfortable.
She shares a lot of person stories to. The one I liked the best
was a student that was really shy and never really spoke in
groups. He has severe articulation problems but in the class he
found a website he liked and was excited to share it. Got in front of
the class and shared it without thinking about it and later ran for
student council and won.

11. “a-ha” Moments
 Some of the website she mentions I didn’t know about like
Yahooligans and Lycos Kids.
 The protect they put on some of the computer surprises me. All
the firewalls they have can block a lot of sites for no reason.
 I don’t think I realized that some sites close after a while some
sponsors can run it as long as they would like. So just make
sure you always have a back up plan.
"This program enhances the mind of a child in many ways. It
brings the learning to life for a child. Children gain a better
understanding of many things which they have heard in
classrooms, seen, and read in books."

12. Conclusion
As you may already
 References
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