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A FAMILY OF DYSLEXICS TRANSFORM ED THROUGH STRUCTURED LITERACY AND ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY

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But with assistive technology that enables her to complete her work independently, she’s finally happy to go to school and is making progress with a structured literacy tutor. Thanks to blended learning for structured literacy intervention, he’s now at or about benchmark in every area.

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Fighting Exclusion: Shake Up Inclusive Learning – SULS0164

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The school needed his expertise to help keep its assistive technology up and running as it was a school for children and adults with disabilities. In the beginning, Mike fixed wheelchairs and such, but as technology expanded so did his work assisting students with disabilities. Looking Ahead.

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Back to School with Choice Boards – SULS0121

Shake Up Learning

Optimize access to tools and assistive technology. . That packs a powerful punch to student learning! Several of our Shake Up Learning trainers have shared or collected examples and templates of choice boards that can help you get started or give you a new idea. . The Book of Templates. Examples from Kim Mattina.

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Flipgrid: The Go-To Remote Learning Tool – SULS080

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Watch this quick video to learn how! Two New Google Books COMING SOON! I am super excited to announce that I have two books that will be released in 2020! Blended Learning with Google: Your Guide to Dynamic Teaching and Learning. Flipgrid: The Go-To Remote Learning Tool.

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Movie magic could be used to translate for the deaf

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Matt Huenerfauth (right), director of the Linguistic and Assistive Technologies Laboratory at the Rochester Institute of Technology, records video and motion-capture data from someone performing American Sign Language (ASL). You can’t just make an animated phrase book.”. You can’t just make an animated phrase book.

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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

His seventh-graders set their own learning goals and focus on mastering skills and knowledge via a combination of online resources (such as BrainPOP and Kahn Academy) and painstaking guidance and support from a team of teachers. For example, many digital books come with a prerecorded audio version of the text. Dr. Sean J.

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

The Hechinger Report

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. Related: Technology offers help in special ed . I wish we had discovered the assistive technology earlier,” Exline said. “It