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How Tablet Games Can Teach Skills to Students with Visual Impairments

Edsurge

His tablet-run version of the game has the same goal: pick letters to figure out a mystery word. The tablet reads out each letter, building your association between the raised dots and the alphabet. The tablet reads out each letter, building your association between the raised dots and the alphabet.

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Learning technology once reserved for special needs students is now in everyone’s hands. Can teachers figure out how best to use it?

The Hechinger Report

Five years ago, these tools were considered purely assistive technology [for children with special needs]; now everyone’s using them. For so long, special education and assistive technology has been for ‘those kids over there.’ And the reason is, everyone has access to it. Every computer and iPad has it.”. Dr. Sean J.

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“It’s unfair” special education students lag behind under Common Core in Kentucky

The Hechinger Report

April 27, 2016 Photo: By Michael Clevenger, the Courier-Journal. April 27, 2016 Photo: By Michael Clevenger, the Courier-Journal. She and her classroom assistants constantly push themselves to adopt a different mindset, which school leaders say has been key to narrowing the gap. This includes assistive technology devices.