Week 4 EDCI 5825 (HW)

Examples of technology/tool that you would recommend for a student with:

Hearing Impairment: For a student with a hearing impairment, technology can be a great advance for him or her. One possible piece of technology that can be used is giving the student a microphone that is has a connection between you and there hearing aid. This allowing the student to hear your voice louder than the, rest of the students who are listening. Also I would think about using a e-reader this would allow the student to keep up with the lecture without having to always work so hard to listen, and keep up with the rest of the class; they would have everything right there in front of them.


Low-Vision: For a student with a vision problem I would recommend two different types of technology; one being a e-reader and the daisy system. The e-reader would allow the student to have the information right there in front of them and be able to zoom into the text. Also with the daisy system they can listen to the lecture instead of having read, this allowing them to keep up and not fall behind; due to there trouble seeing.

 Broken Right Arm: For a student who has a broken arm, I would recommend speech recognition technology. This would allow the student to keep up in the class with all of there written work such as worksheet, essays, etc. When the student speaks into the microphone, the computer puts there words into a document, this will give that child the ability, to be on the same playing field as the rest of the students.

Autism (non-hearing communicative): For a child with autism there are a few different pieces of technology I would recommend for the classroom: computer aac and potable aac. In a since they are all the same, however instead of using the traditional Velcro picture board, your student can now either have the software on a computer or a portable device. I think the nicest part about this software is the portable aspect. The student will be able to communicate where ever they may be, this will help them mainstream in traditional life. The article tells us that it "is now believed that regardless of an individual’s disability or the severity of that disability, all nonspeaking individuals should be given the benefit of augmentative communication consideration”(wikibooks 2009, p.1). I feel that this statement is 100% correct, even though a student cannot communicate verbally does not mean that they, don't have anything to say.



Wikibooks. (2009). Assistive technology in education. Retrieved from http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Assistive_Technology_in_Education/DAISY