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by Melanie Grande4 views·Updated Apr 6, 2022
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  1. Hi everyone.
  2. My name is Melanie grandi and I'm excited to
  3. share with you and my knowledge of assistive technology.
  4. To start off with your first question to
  5. describe the relationship between accommodations and assistive technology,
  6. assistive assistive technology is used as accommodations or adaptations
  7. that help students overcome challenges presented by their disabilities,
  8. which should be anything from not being able
  9. to transcribe their thoughts onto paper or vice versa
  10. or hearing aids or anything like that.
  11. Which leads me to my second question that um what are
  12. the two interdependent aspects that make up as assistive technology?
  13. The first one would be devices which include
  14. equipment or technology that help with communication,
  15. mobility and other parts of life.
  16. This could be like a laptop or it could be
  17. hearing aids or it could be anything that would help with
  18. um
  19. with their disability. That is technology based.
  20. The second aspect,
  21. it would be services which includes supports or services necessary
  22. to use those devices appropriately like training or repairs.
  23. Not every parent teacher or student will know how to use these devices,
  24. so it's important that they get the proper training to do so and accidents do happen.
  25. So that's why we also need repairs.
  26. The next question that you asked me is based
  27. on a scenario of a high school student named jade
  28. jade is a sophomore who has a learning disability and
  29. deficit deficit hyperactivity disorder.
  30. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
  31. So
  32. she struggles with getting her thoughts onto paper in a cohesive manner.
  33. So based on this scenario, I
  34. um
  35. I believe that jade needs compensation
  36. instead of
  37. remediation because
  38. she does everything that she needs to do in order to learn better.
  39. Unfortunately she's not working.
  40. She puts in long hours working on homework studying for tests,
  41. after school tutoring, but none of that stuff seems to work.
  42. Which leads me to believe that she needs compensation in order to um
  43. help her learn.
  44. So this conversation would work by having her um
  45. help her how the tasks are done. So she needs help in the ability to do the task.
  46. Not that she can't learn on her own, but she needs help to do so
  47. since jade is not learning very well,
  48. even though she's doing everything that she needs to in order to do it correctly,
  49. there is some steps that we need to take to
  50. understand if she does need assistive technology to learn,
  51. Which is the 4th question
  52. how to identify and how it will be implemented.
  53. So we would do this by documenting information
  54. about jade herself as well as her schoolwork.
  55. We would do this over a course of a couple of weeks.
  56. Just myself as a teacher watching her in class like
  57. reacting to her schoolwork and seeing how she's doing,
  58. which would lead me to realize that she needs
  59. assistive technology that she does know the information,
  60. but she's having a hard time transcribing that information.
  61. So
  62. I would have an assistive technology team helped me and we
  63. would create a plan in order to help her learn better.
  64. But with assistive technology leads me with my 5th question
  65. provide parents
  66. that parents do get upset that they might feel like
  67. there's an unfair advantage that their student is not getting
  68. any kind of device or assistive technology in the classroom while somebody else is.
  69. And so my reaction to how I would talk to this
  70. parent that it is fair and it's not unfair would be that
  71. jade has a D. H. D. And a learning disability while this parent student does not.
  72. And because of that the students are not on an equal playing field for learning.
  73. That means that while everybody else might be
  74. at a normal average amount of like learning,
  75. however jade is not she's a little bit lower because her disabilities
  76. make it so that she cannot learn the same way as her peers.
  77. So assistive technology
  78. helps her learn
  79. because of her disabilities.
  80. She can't process information the same way as her peers.
  81. She can't retain or recall information the same and selection monitoring
  82. and using strategies is also not the same as her peers.
  83. Therefore she needs technology in order for
  84. an equitable environment in the classroom.
  85. So I would explain to this parent that the technology
  86. makes the classroom equitable between all students and not just
  87. an unfair advantage because it's not it's just making it
  88. so that everybody is on an equal playing field.
  89. So after discussing with this parent,
  90. I would make sure that jade is on the right track
  91. to make sure that this system technology is helping her.
  92. So for your 6th and 7th question, um
  93. after looking at the data that I have been collecting for a while
  94. on jade, um
  95. I need to determine if this assistive technology is effective.
  96. And after looking at the graph,
  97. I have found out that there is a positive increase between performance
  98. and on her written assignments and
  99. the implementation of her assistive technology,
  100. which tells me that
  101. this excessive technology is helping her and her learning.
  102. So after a few weeks,
  103. um how should the assistive technology team respond since
  104. it has been positive and it is helping her?
  105. I have decided that it should be
  106. that there's no response is needed that because it's working
  107. and it's been working for a couple of weeks.
  108. She doesn't need any changes. She doesn't need more, she doesn't need less.
  109. What we're doing right now is working. But that's all I have for you.
  110. Thank you for your time. See you soon.