Blog Post 12

Assistive technology is used in many schools. Assistive technology can help children with vision and hearing impairment. With assistive technology such as text to speech devices, speech to text devices, iphones, ipods, ipads and sensory aids impaired students can achieve the impossible. The most popular are ipads used in schools now. I found some apps for iPads teachers can use in schools. VizWiz lets blind user recruit remote sighted workers to help them with visual problems in real time. Users take a picture with their phone, speak a question, and then receive multiple spoken answers. Google Search is so simple to use. Download this application and turn on the Voiceover option. Say what you would like to search for and Google reads the results aloud via voiceover. It is created by Google and free to download. Assistive technology can help these students by enhancing their learning, remove barriers, push boundaries, and give hope.

These are some of the assistive technologies that I found. There are so many tools that teachers can use to help visual and hearing students with their learning disabilities in the classroom. Teachers having tools design especially for children in their class rooms will get students engage in learning. They will be able to knock down brick walls and build new ones that all children can climb over. By Allowing all students with sensory impairments have the ability to identify, explore, question discover, engage and observe, and interact with their environment the sky is the limit.