10 Assistive Technologies

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10 Assistive Technology 1. Ginger – Offers several features that assist students with dyslexia and other learning disorders with writing (TeachThoughtStaff, 2023). https://www.teachthought.com/technology/assistive-technology/ 2. Seeing AI – This is an app that is designed for students with low vision. It offers audio guidance like reading text, identifying items by barcodes, and describing scenery and its colors (Rice, 2022). https://www.perkins.org/resource/microsoft-seeing-ai-and-low-vision-review/ 3. Audio Player and Recorder – Helps students listen to stories as they read the words. Helps students take notes in class so they can listen to them once they get home (Morin, 2023). https://www.understood.org/en/articles/examples-of-assistive-technology-adaptive-tools 4. Graphic Organizer – Help students to organize their thoughts for writing assignments (Morin, 2023). https://www.understood.org/en/articles/examples-of-assistive-technology-adaptive-tools 5. Calculators – Helps students that having trouble in math. Calculators could have large displays and can even talk and read numbers, symbols, and operation keys aloud (Morin, 2023). https://www.understood.org/en/articles/examples-of-assistive-technology-adaptive-tools 6. Seat Cousins - These are for students with sensory processing or attention disorders. It gives students enough movement and stimulation that helps them to focus without getting up and moving around and disturbing the class. https://www.understood.org/en/articles/examples-of-assistive-technology-adaptive-tools

7. Alternative Keyboard – Programmable keyboards that help students who are having a hard time with regular keyboards. It is a good tool for students with LD and typing issues. It adds graphics for comprehension, grouping keys with different colors (Goldberg, 2019) . https://blogs.onlineeducation.touro.edu/8-assistive-technology-tools-for-students-with- disabilities/ 8. FM Listening System (Frequency Modulation System) helps reduce background noise. Great tool to use for students with attention deficit and other hearing impairments (Goldberg, 2019). https://blogs.onlineeducation.touro.edu/8-assistive-technology-tools-for-students-with- disabilities/ 9. Braille Translation Software or Printer – This software allows documents to be translated into braille and printed on a special printer that prints out in braille (American Foundation for the Blind, n.d). https://www.afb.org/blindness-and-low-vision/using-technology 10. Sip and Puff System – Designed for students with limited mobility, and students with physical disabilities. They use inhalation to sip and exhalation to puff which is usually done with some type of wand, straw, or tube. This system is usually used by individuals without the use of their hands (Accessible Web, n.d). https://www.teachthought.com/technology/assistive-technology/

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