As many adult education practitioners are aware, ABLE programs' capacity
to provide costly assistive technologies is lacking. However, we have
been successful in incorporating some assistive technologies into the
classroom and many adaptations and accommodations. Assistive
technologies used in my own classroom include:

 

1.	Microsoft Word - the speech to text feature that allows students
to train the program for their own voice and it types as they read or
compose; 
2.	Inspiration Software - for those not familiar, it offers a
variety of options for creating graphic organizers to brainstorm
information or collect thoughts on an assignment, among other things
www.inspiration.com <http://www.inspiration.com/>  ; 
3.	We use a scanner to manipulate the font size and type on some
assignments - I personally like Century Gothic because it is sans serif
and uses traditional forms of the lower case letters "a" and "g;" 
4.	We have a television with headphones and headphones for the
student computers; 
5.	Our ABLE program procured a chair from a bariatric clinic to
support the weight of a student whose disability was obesity; 
6.	Large print versions of tests and workbooks. 

 

WYNN software http://www.freedomscientific.com/LSG/index.asp has
garnered a great deal of attention from what I hear from other ABLE
administrators across Ohio, though my program does not have it and I'm
not familiar enough with it to elaborate. The list above is by no means
representative of all the assistive technology being used in classrooms
across the state, but it is a sample from my own program of the most
frequently utilized AT offerings with my students. 

 

Katrina Seymour        

740-477-1655 x313

740-477-5735 (FAX)

kseymour at picca.info

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. 

~ Margaret Mead

 

 

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