This week's readings were very relevant and will serve for a resource for all the the special educators in the class. The tablet technology is moving just as fast as smart phones when they were first available. It is this way with the latest versions of the Kindle and the Nook as it relates to technology for text to speech.
In order to provide the most relevant and helpful assistive technology for each student I would pair them as follows.
The child that has autism and is non verbal could benefit from the new SGD (speech generation device) technology which is currently becoming available. Most of the devices can work with multiple screen types (TV, Computer, Iphone App). The most popular and familiar technology is marketed by DynaVox. The student can download 1 of 3 voices that they choose to represent their spoken word.
On a wider scale, Speech-to-text "allows students to get their ideas onto documents faster because they do not forget it due to how slow they type" (sic) A meta-analysis study done by Forgave, found that five students who wrote stories by using a speech to text software were longer in length than when they had handwritten a story.
The individual that needs temporary assistance due to a broken arm would find speech recognition software helpful. The software changes words to text.
The individual with low vision would benefit greatly from DAISY books. Daisy stands for Digital Accessible Information System. This new technology eliminates many of the obstacles with books on tape and allows those with vision problems to truly communicate in the digital, global information world.
Lastly, the student that is hearing impaired would benefit from a speech to text software platform. There are many on the market and Barnes and Noble is due to have a new version in stores this summer.
Assisted Technology in Education / Autism,
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Assistive_Technology_in_Education/Autistic Volume 4, retrieved on June 18, 2011
Good suggestions. I see you attempted to add a reference at the bottom - but I do not see a citation in the actual body of your post. You do need to have both. Also - your reference is not correct. Review the APA guidelines for citing an Internet source or view your peer's posts to see if you can figure out how to change it.
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Organization/Author Name(s). (year of publication). Title of web page in italics. Retrieved from http://www...
Vanessa, Please find below the necessary corrections as relates to siting references.
ReplyDeleteI am not making excuses but I was having HTML, error on page - not saved issues. I had posted this 3 times and apparently I missed the source in text. To further that point, I thought I did submit week 3 but it also was blank. I did resubmit it the same time as I submitted week 4. For whatever it is worth, I certainly understand APA style and have not had issues with any other educator.
Lastly, I still have no idea how to get something in Italics on this blog. On the original post I now know that it is the compose / html setting that was problematic.
A meta-analysis study done by Forgave, found that "five students who wrote stories by using a speech to text software were longer in length than when they had handwritten a story" (Forgrave, 2010).
Reference
Wiki Books / Forgrave, J. (2010). Wikibooks.org. Retrieved from en.wikibooks.org/wiki/assistive_Technology in Education/Autism