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15 Assistive Technology Tools & Resources For Students With Disabilities

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15 Assistive Technology Tools & Resources For Students With Disabilities. Based on the Department of Education’s Teacher Shortage Area Nationwide Listing , 47 states in the 2014-15 school year were in need of special education instructors. Text-To-Speech Assistive Tools. Assistive Listening Systems.

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Salesforce Donates $8.5M to Computer Science Education

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The San Francisco-based software company will continue a four-year partnership with San Francisco Unified School District. Funding in both districts will go toward hiring math and computer science middle school staff, buying assistive technology for special education students and supporting college and career programs.

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How Automated Speech Recognition Could Change Studying Forever

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Tech entrepreneur Fred Singer is the CEO and founder of Echo360 , a company which he launched after a visit to his son’s classroom. Singer has funded and led a wide range of digital companies over the past twenty years, and the list of business and charitable boards on which he serves is long.

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How Speech Recognition Could Change Studying Forever

Edsurge

Tech entrepreneur Fred Singer is the CEO and founder of Echo360 , a company which he launched after a visit to his son’s classroom. Singer has funded and led a wide range of digital companies over the past twenty years, and the list of business and charitable boards on which he serves is long.

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An Inside Look at the Edtech Purchasing Process

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At every step, they involve the developers so the companies understand Broward’s expectations and why the team made its final decision. If companies make smartphones that a two-year old can use, why are developers making edtech so complicated? She is co-author of the book Digital Solidary in Education (2014). and Mark C.

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Georgia program for children with disabilities: ‘Separate and unequal’ education?

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Ironically, many families also said that the very technologies designed to help students with disabilities — known as assistive technology — are seldom part of a GNETS education. Developed by a company now called Edgenuity , the platform is available for all K-12 subjects. “It It looked amazing on paper,” Brent recalled.