Written by Katie Guild, Assistive Technology Trainer and Advisor, Amethyst Demonstration School Students who are identified with a learning disability (LD) that results in difficulties with the development and use of skills in reading and writing will often have computer supports listed as an essential accommodation in their IEP. This will lead to the student [...]
Written by Katie Guild, Assistive Technology Trainer and Advisor, Amethyst Demonstration School Students who are identified with a learning disability (LD) that results in difficulties with the development and use of skills in reading and writing will often have computer supports listed as an essential accommodation in their IEP. This will lead to the student [...]
Meeting the needs of students with LDs in the destreamed math class can be a challenge. These moves can help!
This article provides a foundational understanding of the differences and complementary roles of instructional and assistive technologies in education.
Educators should consider the language skills in all of the languages spoken by the child to properly identify Speech Sound Disorders
Play-based math tasks can actively engage students in complex tasks, take risks, and make errors without their self-esteem being affected.
Shifting from using a word wall to a sound wall is a small change could make a big impact on students' abilities to learn how to read.
The three-cueing approach to reading encourages students to guess words based on context or prior knowledge rather than building their decoding skills.
Changing attitudes and a shift in teacher training are necessary to meet the growing diversity of student learning needs in FSL programs.
Prosody is characterized by the following: pace and flow (that we bring together here under the concept of speed), emphasis, volume, pauses, and intonation (Lafontaine & Dumais, 2014). These are elements that all bring a certain musicality to a text that is read.
