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Using Assistive Technologies to Empower Students with Special Needs

Tools for Developing Organizational Skills in Students
1.Identifying Solutions for Organizational Problems  2.Organizational Tools  3. Projects  4.Transition Tips


1.Identifying Solutions to Organizational Problems

How Computers Change the Writing Process for People with Learning Disabilities -Read this personal testimonial by dyslexic, Richard Wanderman,  on how computers help him organize his thoughts  and get his ideas down on paper. 

Summarize and jot down the problems that the person in this article experiences.
2.Organizational Tools

Planning and Organization Tools - Some students  with learning disabilities also have difficulties in the area of organization resulting  from limitations and attention span, memory and retrieval and planning ability. Read about how students might access daytimers and planners off of the Internet, use Palm Pilots and Voice Memo recorders etc. as organizational tools. 

List the various devices described on this link that could potentially help a student with organizational problems.
Using Inspiration to Organize   Reading and Writing - Kristin S. Kight University of Delaware  February 1998
 
Draw up a list of how the software Inspiration could be used to help students prepare a project.
 

 
3.Getting Organized to do a Project
Create a Project Checklist - a checklist helps students keep on task when completing a project.  Go to this site and either create your own checklist customize one for a writing, science, media or presentation for a project.  Note: you must select the appropriate grade level.
Identify a project you are having your students complete. Use the Project Checklist Creator  above to create a project checklist to assist students in organizing their work.

 
 
4.Transition Tips
Lessons for Everyone: How students with reading-related learning disabilities survive and excel in college courses with heavy reading requirements by   Roxanne Ruzic,   Harvard University and CAST, Inc.  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the  American Educational Research Association  Seattle, Washington,  April 13, 2001 
After reading the summary of research findings on how students with learning disabilities survive in college, post your impressions to the message board. Message Board 

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