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

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Now in seventh grade, she sees a structured literacy tutor weekly, is taking all honors classes, and is getting straight As with appropriate accommodations (mostly technology). Price is also catching up through audiobooks with “those books I was never able to understand in the past.” Price also recommends Language!

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Support Struggling Readers District Wide with Assistive Tech

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Assistive technology teachers working at schools in the Fairfax County, VA school district, one of the largest in the United States, are finding that the use of audiobooks is improving access to grade-level content while also developing the love of reading that motivates many students to continue improving.

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How to Serve Students With Special Needs From Afar

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Find some way, some moment to connect—especially with elementary students, but all your students really—because they’re challenged,” he says. Because if I can’t do that, then neither can assistive technology. It could be something as simple as Adobe Spark or Book Creator Online. They don’t know what tomorrow holds.

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Back to School with Choice Boards – SULS0121

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Optimize access to tools and assistive technology. . Kim Mattina curated a digital book in Book Creator with several templates to choose from. The Book of Templates. Click to read this book, made with Book Creator. Summer VACAY Bingo (Anderson One Instructional Technology Team).

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More on mapping expository texts through tech, Part 3

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Discussion webs in language intervention are discussed in Hoggan & Strong's excellent article The Magic of Once Upon a Time: Narrative Teaching Strategies (and also this "how to" ), which has served as an inspiration for my "Pairing Picture Books with Apps" presentations.

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Technology Removes Obstructed Writers’ Barriers to Learning

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From elementary school grades upwards, a student may be given a book to read and asked to write a review afterwards. I have listened to every book I’ve ever read either in the voice of an appointed reader, the voice of a professional narrator or the synthesized voice of a screenreader. I tried numerous different solutions.

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An Inside Look at the Edtech Purchasing Process

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Robert Furman, Principal of South Park Elementary Center, South Park Township, PA. How do you approach purchasing education technology tools? She is co-author of the book Digital Solidary in Education (2014). Dr. Ayanna Howard is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Zyrobotics, an educational technology company, and the Linda J.

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