Kindy Segovia, OTRAssistive Technology Coordinator

Kent ISD

Assistive TechnologyAnd

Universal Design for LearningSOLUTIONS FOR INSTRUCTION AND STUDENT

PARTICIPATION

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXCuGvsThEw

Assistive technology is technology used by

individuals with disabilities in order to perform functions

that might otherwise be difficult or impossible.

Assistive Technology

Tools targeted at the needsof the individual student

with a disability

Consider the Barrier:

Consider the Solutions:

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Consider the Barrier:

Consider the Solutions:

Consider the Barrier

Assessment?

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Assessment?

IDEA requires consideration of

assistive technology in every IEP.

IDEA identifies Assistive Technology as devices or

servicesThat are not naturally

available to the student within the environment

AT and the IEP

• AT is the ‘tool’ to accomplish the goals and objectives

• AT is the ‘tool’ to progress or maintain progress in the curriculum

THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS

•Look at the student•Look at the environment•Look at the tasks•Look at the tools

S E T T Process

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/misunderstoodminds/math.html

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Phoneme translation key:

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Problem 2:

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Sequence Activity: Multistep Problems

•Follow all four instructions below to solve each of the three problems. Enter your answer into the space provided. Multiply the third number in the first row by the seventh number in the third row. •Add this result to the fifth number in the second row. •Add to this total ten times the fourth number in the third row. •Subtract the eighth number in the first row from the result.

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Though We Might Need Higher Tech Tools…

Is it alwaysAssistive Technology?

One to One laptops?

Livescribe Pens in the classroom?

Slantboards, ball chairs, Franklin Spellersin class?

If it’s provided to all students, within the natural environment

of the building or classroom,

then is is NOT special education.

Consider the Barrier

Consider the solution

Consider the Barrier

Consider the solution:

UDL – Beyond Assistive Technology

Tools available

for all students

http://www.edlivescribe.com

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html

http://www.mathplayground.com/mathvideos.html

http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/

http://www.hippocampus.org/

http://www.khanacademy.org/

We will always need assistive technology…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8Oa1rgagVQ