Name: Sharon Ogundeko

Houston Baptist University

Dr. Katie Alaniz
LTDE_5306_B01: TECH PLANNING & ADMINISTRATIO
My Campus /Special Education
Assistive Technology

• Highly Rated public magnet school.

• HISD

• Students in Grade 6-12

Plan for change: implementing Assistive
technology with best practices for
supporting students with special needs.
Roles of Technology
for teaching and
learning in school.

• Learning outcomes
• 1 identified the roles of
technology in teaching and
learning.
• 2 Appreciated the valve
of technology in
supporting student learning.
Technology as tutor.
Together with the teacher, technology can support
the teacher to teach another person or technology,
when programmed by the teacher can be a tutor on
it own.

Technology as a learning tools, technology can be an

effective tool for learning. It makes learning easier
enjoyable, and more effective.
proposed change will take place in how
technology will Improves learning in special
education.

• By leveraging technology, educators can enhance

classroom instruction with individualized
learning approaches with special needs.

• The use of technology in special

education helps break the barriers for people
with disabilities and provide them with access
to the most relevant educational programs.
 Shortage of Assistive
technology that can
help students with
disabilities

One tool to help students with

disabilities even in the face of a special
education teacher shortage is assistive
technology. Today, assistive technology
tools can help students with certain
disabilities learn more effectively.
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What is your
plan for
communicating
the proposed
change COMMUNICATING WITH AND THE TECHNOLOGY
PRINCIPLE OF THE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
• Email communication

• Personal communication
Describe applicable research
and benefits
• In the education process, assistive technologies offer various solutions in
providing students with support that meets their needs, these assistive
technologies significantly contribute to aiding persons with special
educational needs in learning, building self-confidence, being independent
and achieving a high quality in life. Furthermore, they serve as key tools for
enabling students to access education, actively and independently
participate in the education process, interact with their peers and have
control over their own learning experiences The use of assistive
technologies helps to facilitate the improved performance of the students
by providing support, such as adapting content and activities of the
curricula, specific to their needs within a minimum-restricted environment,
In short, assistive technologies serve to increase both the functional
performances and the academic success of the students
Benefit of technology
with special needs
• Assistive technologies are defined in various ways in the
literature. assistive technologies as the equipment, devices,
apparatus, services, systems, processes and modifications
made to the environment for use by disabled people to
secure their full, active and easy participation in society. on
the other hand, equipment, tools and product systems used
to enable improvement of the functions of disabled people.
assistive technologies are various devices whose aim is to
help the disabled and persons with special
educational/rehabilitation needs to better function in daily
life and attain a higher quality of life. in education process,
the needs of persons receiving special education show
variance. Technologies such as voice recognition
applications, mobile devices, symbol-based interaction and
virtual reality may be used to support persons with different
educational needs during their education process A range of
technologies can be used to support students in reading,
writing, walking, sitting, seeing and hearing and in fostering
communication skills and participation in activities.
Identify areas that
will need special
attention, including…

• It is important to consider the

student’s strengths and
weaknesses in regarding to such
areas as reading, writing/spelling,
speaking, listening, math,
memory, organization, and
physical/motor ability. Examining
these areas will help identify the
specific areas of difficulty that
need to be bypassed by using AT.
What do you expect to happen on your campus if
the proposed change is implemented?

• Assistive technology to help

special needs learner to learn and
think differently work around their
challenges. reads text aloud.
Assistive technology can empower
people to do things for
themselves. People who learn and
think differently can use
technology tools to work around
their challenges.
• Create multiple modalities for lessons, Not all
students learn the same way, and today’s
classrooms are composed of students with
varying learning styles and abilities. It makes
sense, therefore, that providing a wide range of
learning materials is key to engaging all
students, while providing them with the tools
they need to learn. This type of Differentiated
Instruction is especially important within the
special education setting, where students who
have special needs may not be able to consume
the traditional paper-based lessons still used in
many classrooms.
How technology improves
special education learning.
• Modern electronic devices and special software
allow consumption and creation of content through
multiple modalities, not just written text. For
example, a student with dyslexia might benefit from
using software that reads words aloud when
selected. This technology makes it easier to provide
the audiovisual experiences some students require
to grasp the concepts presented. The technology
also allows instructors to incorporate multimedia
elements into assessments, which in turn lets every
student create the type of projects that showcases
his or her talents and learning. In addition, special
needs students who are nonverbal can make use of
the devices’ text-to-speech capabilities to present
their learning to the class, so that they can share
their work just like a student without verbal deficits.
 Pros and cons

• It is often said that technology provides freedom and

liberates individuals with disability
• . Technology helps provide students with individual learning events,
enables reaching higher flexibility and differentiation in educational
methodologies.

• Some cases of assistive technologies are very complex and

hard to use for special needs learner and some time It
affects the individual psychologically and increases the
frustration furthermore.
Do use technology:
● To enhance or extend social interactions
● To provide access to learning environments (like
advanced courses, simulations, etc) that otherwise
would not be available
● To facilitate and generate learning experiences that
are meaningfully aligned with in-person learning
experiences
● To personalize, individualize, and/or differentiate
learning to each student’s pace, path, abilities, and
interests
● To provide students with choice, agency, and
ownership of their learning
● To ensure equitable access to technology and its
supporting infrastructure itself, as well as the
opportunity to develop skills associated with
technology use
Don’t use technology:
● For many or unlimited hours each day
● To remove students from learning experiences that
their peers have access to
● To implement, scale, or sustain ineffective in-person
instructional strategies
● To track or stream students into rigid or long-term,
standardized learning groups
● To automate or make decisions about learning without
input from teachers and students
● With the assumption that students intuitively know how to
use it (or have access to it), especially for learning
What do you expect to happen on your campus if the
proposed change is implemented?
How will you know if you have achieved success?
• special-needs students, who find learning via e-
readers, computers and software to be more
engaging. And because lessons through such
devices can be personalized for the students
rather than a single lesson for the whole class,
children with learning disabilities find
themselves able to handle even advanced
lessons and reach their fullest potential

• Fun combined with substantial learning impact.

• Creativities
• Sucesses
• Happiness
How will you know if you have achieved
success?
Serving students with special needs better,
using digital technology to help special needs.
When special education teachers start exploring
the role of technology in supporting students
with special needs. The support ranges from
helping disabled students to access the
curriculum to providing disability specific
support so that students can participate in
inclusive school setting and teachers and campus
know more importance of supporting students
with special needs.