Information and Communication Technologies for Students with Disabilities Portfolio Group Assignment:
For you must identify current and emerging assistive technologies to enable him to participate in high-quality communication interactions and achieve his educational goals. In addition, you will need to provide an adequate rationale for the use of this technology by describing how it will assist the student with disabilities to overcome his learning barriers to meet his/her educational goals.
For Victor, you are to do the following:
- Identify 6 technologies in a numbered fashion, following the directions for the type of technologies that must be included, and include the information using the bolded headings. You must include the bolded headings in your document followed by your response. You MUST carefully review your document for quality of writing, use of professional language, and writing mechanics.
- You must be sure to include some technologies that cover the learner’s goal
- See specifically under the learner the types of technologies you must include.
When you identify the technology to be used you must include each of the following
- Name of Technology and its URL: Include the name of the technology, its URL and a brief description.
- Type of technology. (e.g., software, online learning tool, app, hardware/device, etc.
- Technology Description: Briefly describe the technology. Be sure to include the features that would be useful to learning. Write this well enough so that someone could read it and get an overall understanding of what it is and how it works.
- How does this technology help overcome the learning barrier(s) and meet the learning goal(s): You must describe specifically what barrier(s) this technology will help the student overcome and how it will help him/her meet his/her learning goals. This is a critical part of the assignment in that it demonstrates your understanding of the usefulness of the technology.
Profile 1: Victor
Student
- Victor, aged 12.
Learning needs
- Victor has a diagnosis of severe learning disabilities, with dyslexia and dysgraphia.
- Reading Challenges: He is a reluctant reader and because of this when he has to read to gather information to write his composition papers, he is slow and doesn’t always gather the most important information.
- Writing Challenges: He finds handwriting difficult. His written work is messy and often illegible with very poor spelling. Beyond his handwriting challenges, he has trouble writing or composing papers, that is, he his poor written expression. He often writes incomplete sentences, has errors in syntax, grammar, and spelling. He often doesn’t know what is important to write. Sometimes his paragraphs lack a main idea, etc.
- During writing and composition time, he often becomes withdrawn. He is self-conscious about his difficulties and resists working with the teacher’s aide.
- He has a history of anxiety and now his school attendance has reduced.
- Academic performance in comparison to her peers has been falling steadily.
Learning goals
- Increase and improve his written expression
- Improve his reading for content to better compose papers.
- Increase accuracy and complexity writing, improve legibly and spelling
Assignment: Identify and present in a numbered fashion 5 technologies to help Victor overcome his learning barriers and meet his learning goals. Be sure to include
- Software, hardware, and/or Web 2.0 tools, low-tech solutions but not simply websites to find information.
- There should be technologies to support his reading to help him when composing papers, his handwriting, and his composing papers. Some technologies could support more than one of the challenges. You can’t have all the technologies support just one of his challenges (e.g., spelling). For example, you can’t only have reading support technologies or only compositing support technologies, etc. You must include a variety of technologies.
- Important: You must include one technology that the teacher would use to facilitate Victor’s learning. That is, what technology could the teacher use to teach Victor (and the others in his class) improved reading and/or writing skills.
Technology Write Up Example (You will need to be double space your paper):
Name of Technology and its URL: Kurzweil 3000 https://www.kurzweiledu.com/default.html
- Type of technology: Kurzweil 3000 is an assistive technology software and application that offers tools such a speech to text and more specifically for those with language impairments, learning disabilities, or a general boost for those who have difficulty writing.
- Technology Description: Kurzweil 3000 is a scanning, reading, and writing solution for those with learning, reading, and writing disabilities. Scanned material such as an entire curriculum can also be scanned and read allowed in text to speech format. Kurzweil 3000 also allows includes a dictionary, thesaurus, spell checker, audible spell checking, and a vocabulary list.
- How does this technology help overcome the learning barrier(s) and meet the learning goal(s): Victor has a diagnosis of dyslexia and dysgraphia for which Kurzweil is highly useful. With Kurzweil he has the ability to be read scanned material and read to him making him less reluctant to read. As for his writing with the speech to text technology he was the ability to speak his thoughts into text and then modify it as he chooses. This should increase the accuracy and complexity of his writing, and improve legibly and move towards conventional spelling. Making writing easier he should be able to improve on his reading and writing assignments thus boosting his willingness to go to school and decreasing his anxiety about school.
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