ASSISTIVE

TECHNOLOGY

Madeline Goehman
Dyslexia

– Dyslexia occurs in children with normal vision and intelligence.

– Symptoms include late talking, learning new words slowly, and a delay in
learning to read.
– The Reading Focus Card allows students with disabilities such as dyslexia or
ADD/ADHD to easily read text by viewing it one line at a time
– Another feature of the Card is that it comes in a variety of colors ranging from
light pastels to brighter tones. This is effective for students because oftentimes,
the white background of normal texts can be visually offensive.
 Right- Reading focus cards allow the
student to only see one line at a time.
Below- Blue sheet covers allow the students
to look at a different color than white,
which usually causes students not to be
able to read the words.

https://www.nessy.com/uk/teachers/further-dyslexia-
information/visual-dyslexia/
Reading Pen

https://www.youtube.com/wa
tch?v=XW3jKpLO-rM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?ti
me_continue=1&v=cE13xt0bHeI Dragon Naturally
Speaking
Autism

– A serious developmental disorder that impairs the ability

to communicate and interact.
– Around one third of people with autism remain
nonverbal.
– BlueBee Pals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t
ime_continue=4&v=pyn3QrxczXc
– Dynavox

DynaVox devices assist individuals who are

unable to communicate reliably with their own
voices due to cognitive, language and physical
impairments.
– Daily Visual Schedule
People with Autism and related
disorders like ADHD, PDD-Nos
and Asperger often have difficulty
coping with unstructured
activities and benefit from
increased structure in their lives.
 Learning Disablities

– Learning disabilities are neurologically-based processing problems.

– These processing problems can interfere with learning basic skills such as
reading, writing and/or math.
– They can also interfere with higher level skills such as organization, time
planning, abstract reasoning, long or short term memory and attention.
– Graphic Organizers

http://www.classtools.net/educati
on-games-php/burger
– KinderBoard
– The KinderBoard is a large-key computer keyboard that can assist children with

vision or motor-skill impairment .

– Talking Calculators
– Talking calculators look and function like common calculators. However, this
assistive technology devices has a built in speech synthesizer so that each key
pressed is spoken out loud.
– This can help the user to verify that the numbers and operands have been
entered correctly. The calculator also speaks the answer to the math problem.
Work Cited

– http://dyslexiahelp.umich.edu/latest/reading-focus-card-help-students-dyslexia-addadhd
– https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/dyslexia/symptoms-causes/syc-20353552
– https://www.autismspeaks.org/what-autism
– https://ldaamerica.org/types-of-learning-disabilities/
– https://www.brighthubeducation.com/special-ed-physical-disabilities/76096-talking-
calculators-assistive-technology-in-schools/
– https://www.nessy.com/uk/teachers/further-dyslexia-information/visual-dyslexia/
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=cE13xt0bHeI
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=pyn3QrxczXc
– http://www.classtools.net/education-games-php/burger