Hopefully the school she chooses to attend will have similar resources. Some sources Mary may find useful include the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) website [www.ada.gov], the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, which has resources for people who have suffered traumatic brain injury [http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/tbi/tbi.htm].
References
Beard, L.A., Carpenter, L.B., & Johnston, L. (2011). Assistive technology: Access for all students. 2e Kindle edition. Columbus, Ohio: Merrill.
Speaker. 2011. Softonic International. Retrieved from http://speaker.en.softonic.com/
Task 2: Identify 4 web sites that you will continue to utilize as an educator for AT or UDL assessment or planning. Please specify why you prefer to use them.
Closing the Gap Solutions [www.closingthegap.com] is an affordable subscription-based resource -- $37.50 per year after a fourteen-day free trial. The site has an electronic journal with articles explaining the use of various Assistive Technology devices and strategies. A searchable resource directory allows the user to search by input or output device, by disability and by supported platforms (Windows, Mac, iOS and Android). There is a great deal of information and contributors are actual users of products, not companies trying to entice buyers. Users thus gain an understanding of the product from the perspective of someone like themselves, who has actually used the product with students. Teachers can use the site to find AT for their classrooms, to make recommendations to special education teams, and in talking with parents.
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The U.S. Department of Education's IDEA website [http://idea.ed.gov] is designed as a "one-stop shop" resource. It features news articles, links to events, a document archive, and many major topics of interest to special educators and anyone who works with this student population. Like the website above, there is the capability for submitting questions. It can be reassuring to have someone to ask when one cannot find the answer being sought. The website is continually updated, so there is new information all the time. When teaching students and families to be advocates, it is a source that a teacher can highly recommend.
A teacher should always be familiar with the offerings of the state department of education website. In the case of California, there is a comprehensive section on the use of assistive technology [http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/se/sr/astvtech.asp]. The site explains assistive technology and the law, and provides a number of links with basic AT resources. As with two of the other sites mentioned, there is a point of contact for users with questions.
All four websites will be useful in my career as a teacher; they provide professional resources I can use and also ones I can recommend to colleagues and families. The sites are dynamic, adding new content as laws change and more information becomes available.
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