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14 Disabilities by IDEA Autism Deafness Blindness Developmental…

- - - - Speak it! Can help your learner read or speak.
      - Read2Go: Read2Go corresponds with Bookshare, a digital library that makes books available to students with reading-related disabilities such as dyslexia and vision issues.
      - Dragon Dictation: Students who have difficulty writing due to disabilities can benefit from the free Dragon Dictation app.
      - Notability: People learn differently and the note-taking app Notability embraces this notion.
      - Talking Calculator: Talking Calculator features large colorful buttons, creating an easy-to-use interface.
      - Virtual Manipulatives!: Uses visuals to effectively teach fractions, decimals and percentages.
      - Draw Free for iPad: When a school project entails an artistic element, consider Draw Free for iPad.
    - - Infrared Systems (IR) work like TV remote controls.
      - FM Systems, or Radio Frequency Assistive Listening Systems
      - Hearing Loops, also known as Induction Loops or Audio Frequency Induction Loop Systems (AFILS)
  - - - Assistance from a note taker so that he/she can focus on lip reading during lectures
      - Arranging priority seating at the front of the classroom can enable a child to lip read more effectively
      - A sign language interpreter during classroom discussions
      - Text-to-speech assistive technology offers a deaf student the ability to share comments with the class if he/she does not use a sign language interpreter. It can enable a student to give oral presentations and take oral exams.
      - When watching educational films, enabling captions and ensuring that the child who needs to read them is seated where he or she can see them can solve potential problems
      - Extra classroom time focused on English or the help of an English tutor can counteract the challenges this subject presents for deaf students.
      - A sign language interpreter can also assist by translating spoken lectures
      - Teachers, using PowerPoint presentations to accompany lectures
- - - - Provide calculators
      - Divide works in chunks so students work in steps
    - - Noise cancelling headphones
      - testing in different setting
    - - Provide calculators
      - Allow students more time for note-taking and tests.
      - Give the student an outline with the main ideas to fill in details rather than having them try to keep up with full note taking.
      - Allow the use of a computer for drafts so the essay does not need to be rewritten for edits.
      - Provide students with the tools they need to be successful, such as paper with raised lines, graph paper for math to line up the columns, and fun grips or larger pencils.
    - - Seating in class.
      - Colours used to write board and give tasks on computer.
      - Use of tactile cues and prompts.
      - Allow use of camera.
      - Allow assistive technology in class like: Optical character recognition (OCR)
    - - Use of augmentative and alternative communcation devices (AAC) reinforceed through daily routine
      - Embedded instructions
      - Wait time
      - Personalised instructions.
      - Use of micro swtiches
    - - Use of computers
      - Speech to text and text to speech,
      - Audio books
  - - - There are various specialists that may become involved, such as:
        
        Physical Therapists
        
        Additional Therapists
        
        Occupational Therapists
        
        Speech-Language Pathologists
        
        Adapted Physical Education Teachers
    - - Ensuring suitable augmentative communication and other assistive devices
      - Instruction that is focused on development of gross and fine motor skills
      - Seating arrangements to develop useful posture and movements
      - Adequate awareness of the student's medical condition and its affect on the student
  - - - Divide assignments up into smaller sections
      - Rewrite complex directions into simple steps
      - Provide students with visual aids
      - Consistent routines
      - Allow students to do an alternative to a test - paper, presentation, project
      - Allow students to use a device (if they have one) to take a test - directions can be read, answers can be spoken and converted into text
      - Allow students to have additional time on tests
      - Provide study guide/review sheet for exam
    - - Calendar app
        Important tool to write down assignments, daily routines, and important occasions.
      - Digital Clock
        Clock with hands may be difficult for such student to read.
      - Voice Recognition Program
        Allows students to perform educational tasks (write papers, search the internet)
      - Screen Enlargement Program
        Allows students with vision problems to see the computer screen more clearly
      - Screen Reading Software
        Help students (specifically with vision problems) by having the words on the screen read to them
      - SmartNav (Hands Free Computer System)
        Student use computer by the movement of their head. Specifically used for students who cannot or have trouble using their hands
    - - Give students more time to complete tasks and extend deadlines.
      - Plan your Lesson and assignment around the strengths of the students.
      - Break down large assignments into smaller components.
  - - - Make hearing devices more readily accessible
      - Voice and articulation training is often recommended to help students learn to form the sounds which they cannot hear
      - Ensure that any background noise is minimized
      - Repeat clearly any questions asked by students in the lecture or class before giving a response
      - Do not speak when facing the blackboard.
      - Allow students to record lectures
      - Always consider alternative forms of assessment where necessary.
      - Provide extra time in examinations, particularly extra time for reading questions.
  - - - Instructional Strategies
        
        Provision of specialized instructional services
        
        Modifications in order to participate in school-based programs
        
        Early intervention services
        
        Provide a caring and nurturing classroom environment
        
        Teach all students about the various types of health impairment and what they can do to not only help these students, but to make them feel like an equal member of the classroom
        
        Creating hands-on opportunities for learning
        
        Promote cooperative learning (groups)
        
        Give short, but concise directions
        
        Teach lessons that allow movement
        
        Utilize a buddy system
        
        Allow for frequent and positive feedback
        
        Send work home (to prevent students from falling behind when they miss school for reasons out of their control)
        
        Provide names for tutoring
        
        Stay after school to help the student
      - Assistive Technology
        
        Low Tech Devices
        
        Notebooks
        
        Dividers
        
        High Tech Devices
        
        Personal digital assistants
        
        Dictating machines
  - - - Promote appropriate social interaction
      - Give students more time to complete tasks and extend deadlines
      - Use activities that are similar to same aged peers will provide an opportunity for interaction
      - Use age appropriate materials
      - Routines and procedures that provide predictability are important to a student with developmental delays
      - Provide clear Instructions using different methods like - orally, written or Demonstration
      - Plan your lesson and assignments around the strengths of your students
      - Modify assessment by allowing oral exams or interviews
      - Seating arrangement : Keep in mind that a student that displays behaviors that are distracting would work better at an individual desk.
    - - Audiobooks
        One of the areas where many students with this diagnosis fall behind is in literacy and reading. Teachers have several tools at their disposal to make reading more accessible for children who struggle to make sense of the words. Audiobooks are frequently recommended as an alternative to traditional reading.
      - Text-to-Speech Software
        Speech is often one of the primary areas that are affected by developmental delays. Some students might need more help communicating what they need and asking any questions that arise during class time. A text-to-speech software could help students to gain control of what they need to say.
      - FM Systems
        Sometimes, students with developmental delays have a difficult time understanding and processing all of the sounds that bombard them in the classroom. FM systems can help by connecting the teacher and student in an audible way with radio broadcast technology.
      - Tech Toolbox™
        The Arc’s Tech Toolbox™, an online resource to find, share, rate and review technology for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities (I/DD).
      - Cause and Effect Sensory Light Box App
        Cause and Effect Sensory Light Box (1.99) for iPhone and iPad was created for a group of teenagers with complex needs including visual impairment, autism and developmental disabilities. With 21 different scenes with abstract visuals and quality audio the app encourages development and basic awareness of touches and gestures through open-ended exploration and play..
  - - - 80% of blindness occurs in people 50 or over
      - 0.58% of people worldwide are blind
      - Only 3.6% of the blind are children
  - - - Orientation and mobility training to allow a student with a visual impairment to safely move around a classroom.
      - Arrange classroom furniture a certain way to reduce possible dangers.
      - Sensory learning
      - Use touch cues to enhance your child’s academic pursuits.
    - - LOW/MEDIUM-TECH DEVICES
        
        Braille Compass
        
        Braille Labelers
        
        Braille Watches
        
        Tactile Pictures
      - AUDITORY ACCESS DEVICES
        
        Recording Devices
        
        Auditory Books
        
        Speech Recognition Software
      - Assistive Technology Apps
        
        The BARD Mobile
        
        Learning Ally
        
        vBookz PDF Voice Reader
        
        The Visual Brailler
        
        Dragon Search
        
        AccessWorld
- - - - Specific impairment in understanding and sharing thoughts and ideas
        -Form of language
        -Content of language
        -Use of language
      - Instructional Strategies
        
        Be near the students when giving instructions
        
        Speak slowly and deliberatly
        
        Provide step by step directions
        
        Use gestures that support understanding
        
        Model correct speech patterns
        
        Touch base with the speech/language
        
        Be patient when the student is speking
    - - Difficulty in articulation of words:
        -Articulation
        -Voice
        -Fluency
      - Assistive Technologies
        
        ACC: Augmentative or alternative communication
        
        Unaided communication systems
        
        Gestures
        
        Body language
        
        Sign language
        
        Low-tech AAC
        
        Paper and pen
        
        Picture board
        
        Special devices
        
        Software
        
        Smartphones
        
        High-tech AAC
      - Instructional Strategies
        
        Maintain eye contact with speech impairment student during the whole conversation
        
        Do not finish sentences or fill in words for the individual who stutters
        
        Allow more time for a student to complete activities, assignments and tests.
        
        Have a student sit near you to easily meet her learning needs
        
        Always ask before providing assistance
        
        Modifying activities or exercises so assignments can be completed by the student, but providing the same or similar academic objectives
        
        Create tests that are appropriate for the student with speech impairment (for example, written instead of oral or vice versa.)
- - - - Tiimo
        Tiimo is for everyone who needs structure and visual guidance in everyday life, and is a particularly useful tool for children, youngsters, and adults with special needs caused by cognitive deficits such as ADHD, ADD, autism, and brain damage. Tiimo combines structure, time management, icons, and reminders in one clever digital solution. And it works on all devices.
      - Learn with Rufus
        Being a completely user-friendly app, Learn with Rufus is made to teach emotional words, facial expressions, etc. to kids who are facing difficulties communicating. Also, the application can be utilized to develop language, communication, and social skills.
      - First-Then Visual Schedule
        This application offers visual schedules to assist children with transitions and reduce anxiety. First-Then provides the excellent and language capabilities to make them understand and learn each and every activity and upon successfully completing it what the reward will be.
      - MyTalkTools
        This is a creative and effective mobile application that enables kids with communication issues to express what they want and need utilizing a set of words, pictures, and various sounds. The app can be configured to feature particular sounds and pictures for a specific kid to help in the best way possible
      - iPrompts
        iPrompts, a special educational mobile application that supports organizational skills, sets great expectations for performance, supports, and reminders. In addition, users can create and edit visual activities along with Setting timer with images that will display how much more time is left for the kid to complete an activity.supports, and reminders. In addition, users can create and edit visual activities along with Setting timer with images that will display how much more time is left for the kid to complete an activity.
      - AutisMate
        Blending features of various apps into one, AutisMate is an excellent mobile app for kids where they learn to do their everyday chores. This app lets parents set up dynamic situations such as a kid tapping on the faucet and see how to properly wash hands. Apart from this, there is a visual scheduling feature and sentence formation category.
      - E-Mintza
        This is bilingual mobile app is customizable and is created for augmentative communication utilizing a family’s own images. E-Mintza app is 100 percent free.
      - iCommunicate
        A visual scheduling app, iCommunicate enables users to keep a track on their own audio. This application integrates text-to-speech with more than 20 different voices and languages including Italian, English, Spanish, Swedish, and many more. Users can also share images through iTunes and email:
      - The Social Express
        This app offers various social skills that kids with autism suffer. The Social Express addresses interactive and social life that most autistic children face social learning challenges by utilizing extremely interactive and animations to make kids understand and practice social skills in an engaging way.
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    - - If the child seems overstimulated from sensory input, such as in a large crowd, bring him to a quieter place to de-stress
      - If the child seems overstimulated from sensory input, such as in a large crowd, bring him to a quieter place to de-stress
      - use a schedule to let the child know how his day will go
      - Stay calm when interacting with the child
      - Set expectations, be consistent and follow through
      - Wait-time for processing verbal directions
      - Visual schedules
      - Distract and redirect problematic behavior
      - Give choices
      - Simple directions
      - Make directions clear, short, and concrete