Assistive Technologies

I like how we were able to work on this together in class. I am taking a special ed class this semester and most of the stuff we do in there is also working in groups. I am so excited that there is so much technology out there for students with disabilities. In our group,we focused on graphic organizers to help a child named Oscar. He was a student with a visual impairment and we thought that he would benefit from graphic organizers because it offers him images instead og text to study. He also had trouble reading small text so we said that offering him what words he would need would be in large text. The other tool we used was WebQuest. Webquest is helpful because it gives the child directions in the website. One of the major problems with the Internet is that there is so much information and it is often difficult to find exactly what you are looking for. Webquest eliminates confusion and lets you find the information in a timely and concise manner. In my own experience, my grandfather has demacular degeneration (I think thats the name of it). Anyway, he cannot see anything and by using ZoomText he is able to make the screen really big so that he can use a computer. Its amazing and I am so happy that they have stuff so that our disabled students can participate in the classroom.