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Info on disabilities
Info on disabilities
Misunderstood Minds - Ever want to understand what your student’s disability looks like? How does he/she feel when asked to do a task? This is a GREAT website.
Understood.org (same idea as Misunderstood Minds above) If nothing else, scroll down to the student videos...choose the gr. level, then the issue. Eye opening!
Dyslexia Resources for Teachers and their Students
Teaching Strategies
Teaching Strategies
Blog- The Inclusion Lab has wonderful tips and ideas, for example:
Accommodations and Supports for 10 Common Classroom Activities
5 Mistakes in Reading Program Design that can Hurt Struggling Readers
7 Steps to Teaching Writing Skills to Students With Disabilities
WGOITP? "What's Going on in this Picture?" Start with visuals. The NY Times Learning network posts a photo a week, and students respond to these three questions: What’s going on in this picture? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? How teachers use this...Using it in an ELL context...Other teacher ideas
Comment from a SpEd Teacher who used this technique: "I used these pictures every week since they started. My classes would come in on Monday and say “What’s this week’s picture?!?” I work with Special Ed students with learning difficulties. The pictures were a way for me to teach my students how to think. I am a counselor and most of my students get stuck in just trying to remember facts they need for their classes. I introduced them to Bloom’s Taxonomy where Creating requires the highest level of thinking. We would take the picture, analyze and evaluate what we saw and create a story about what was going on in the picture. My students were able to perform this task flawlessly! Yes their ideas may have been a bit out there from time to time; but they were thinking! ...Thank you so much helping me show my students that they had the ability to think at a much higher level than they ever thought possible!"
Tools
Tools
Google Apps & Extensions for Vision & Literacy Support
Chromebook Extensions to Support Students with Disabilities
Apps for Kids on the Autism Spectrum or Best Apps for Kids with Autism
Read & Write for Google Chrome - This is a Chrome extension for reading/writing - teachers can get a FREE premium account! USE IT!! Reads aloud webpages, Google Docs, slides, and .pdfs. Dictionary support, highlight support, translator and much more. Students can also speak and it transcribes what they say. YouTube videos demonstrating how to use
Mobile Apps for Special Needs Education One example, "First-Then," a visual scheduler. Their description: "First-Then visual schedule application is designed for caregivers to provide positive behavior support. For individuals with communication needs, developmental delays, Autism or those who benefit from a structured environment; visual schedules serve to increase independence and lower anxiety during transitions through different activities." Cost- 9.99
Microsoft List of Links for Inclusive Learning
10 Microsoft Learning Updates (2019)
To give your students control over the browser/web page:
To give your students control over the browser/web page:
1) Text to Speech (for reading support)
Text to Speech in Chrome: Get the add-on "Speak It!". Once you've added it, highlight the selection, and click the speaker icon.
Text to Speech in Safari: Highlight the text, then Edit, to Speech, then Start Speaking. If you want to change the voice, go System Preferences to Text to Speech.
Dictate is a new free add-in for Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook
2) Use Reader View on a web page if the ads are distracting. Look for the icons circled in red below...
Safari Reader View
Safari Reader View
Firefox Reader View
Firefox Reader View
Chrome Reader View (install the app first)
Chrome Reader View (install the app first)
3) For Students with eye problems: Teach students how to zoom in and out of browser (some students you don’t realize can’t see the text!!) It’s usually Control & + or Control & mouse wheel on a PC, and Command + on a Mac
4) Other add-ons: This doc (created by Steve Wick & Melissa Wilson) has tons of tools, apps and add ons for Chrome and Google Classroom, all Language Arts based.
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