Articles related to Assistive Technology for Students with Special Needs

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Year	Article & Link
2015	Creating Meaningful Art Experiences With Assistive Technology for Students With Physical, Visual, Severe, and Multiple Disabilities
2014	Twenty-Five Years Later: How is Technology Used in the Education of Students with Disabilities? Results of a Statewide Study.
2014	Let’s use an iPad App: Struggling Writers use of Digital Art Media for making Story Plans
2014	Assistive Technology: Interventions for Individuals with Severe/Profound and Multiple Disabilities
2014	Supporting Speech Generating Device Use in the Classroom. Part 1: Teacher Professional Development
2014	Use of Portable Electronic Assistive Technology to Improve Independent Job Performance of Young Adults with Intellectual Disability
2014	Assistive Technology In Special Education And The Universal Design For Learning
2014	The Apple iPad as Assistive Technology for Story-based Interventions
2014	Teacher Use of Instructional Technology in a Special Education School for Students with Intellectual Disabilities: A Case Study
2013	Identifying emerging trends for implementing learning technology in special education: A state-of-the-art review of selected articles published in 2008–2012
2013	Using Assistive Technology to Enhance the Learning of Basic Literacy Skills for Students with Learning Disabilities
2013	Digital Games And Assistive Technology: Improvement Of Communication Of Children With Cerebral Palsy
2012	Assistive Hearing Technologies Among Students With Hearing Impairment: Factors That Promote Satisfaction
2012	Rethinking Everyday Technology as Assistive Technology To Meet Students’ IEP Goals
2011	Assistive Technology Devices and Children with Cerebral Palsy
2010	Spelling And Assistive Technology: Helping Students With Disabilities Be Successful Writers

Using the iPad as a Teaching and Learning tool in the Classroom for Students with Specials Needs

Here are some suggestions that you may find useful:


Organisation/ Communication

• Use iCommunicate to create individualised social stories or schedules for the day.

• Download photos onto iCommunicate or iPrompts and use them to support a student in making choices (e.g., between own photo and photo of another person, their preferred snack or activity.)

• Use the visual countdown timer in iPrompts to demonstrate how much time is left until an activity ends.

• Use Voice4u, TapToTalk or Proloquo2Go to communicate thoughts, ideas, needs and questions throughout the school day.

• Use iHomework to help keep track of upcoming work deadlines.


Literacy

• Use DrawFree or Doodle Buddy to provide opportunities for students to write/ draw. Insert pictures of numbers, letters or names for students to scribble/ trace over.

• Use ABC Animals, Animal Fun Interactive Alphabet or Abc PocketPhonics to support the teaching of letter recognition and formation.

• Use Pocket Charts to introduce and reinforce the concept of upper and lower case letters.

• Engage students in a one to one or guided reading experience through interactive books such as Jack and the Beanstalk and The Cat in the Hat.

 • Use Animal Match to develop matching and memory skills.

 • Use Spell Blocks regularly to give students individual practice with spelling over 200 sight words, and teachers the opportunity to keep track of each student’s progress.

• Use Puppet Pals to produce a personalised puppet show to retell, modify or create a story.

• Use Stories2Learn, Strip Designer or StoryKit to create personalised school books compiled from photographs, pictures and labels of familiar objects.

• Use apps such as Marvel Comics, The World Factbook and Epicurious (a cookbook app) to provide a wide range of interest-appropriate reading materials.

• Use iThoughts to mind map ideas for a story, discussion or report.



Mathematics 

• Use KidCalc to support the teaching of number recognition.

• Use Toddler Counting to support students in learning to count accurately.

• Use iPuzzle or Shape Builder to develop a recognition of shapes and basic problem solving skills.

• Use Math Bingo to provide practice questions in all four operations.

• Use MathBoard to provide support and practice in a range of calculations.

• Use Numbers to record data, create spreadsheets, charts and graphs.


Other Curriculum Areas 

• Use apps such as Gravitarium, Pocket Pond and Tap Speak Button to support the teaching of cause and effect.

• Use Toddler JukeBox to help draw students’ attention to sounds and sound patterns.

• Use Talking Tom Cat to provide opportunities for students to practise speaking key words.

• Use Cookie Doodle as an introduction to students designing and baking their own cookies.

• Use MeMoves as a movement-to-music activity to build students’ coordination.

• Use Caster to create and publish podcasts about daily learning, classroom news or reactions to the introduction of the iPad in their classroom.

• Use Google Maps to plan out an area to be visited during a forthcoming excursion or reflect upon a past visit. Places can be marked and annotated. New maps can be created and saved.

• Whilst undertaking a practical work, students can record their own experiences through Tappy Memories.