The moment a student is diagnosed with a reading and/or writing disability, remediation should begin, and that remediation should be paired with instruction through accessible digital media. That media can be pictures, videos, and especially electronic reading
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Previous studies have found that news photographs provide positive effects for newspapers. In general, research on the effects of pictures on text processing show that memory can be improved when the picture is present (Levie & Lentz, 1982; Mendelson & Thorson, 2003). News photographs provide a "point of entry" into newspaper pages (Garcia & Stark, 1991), provide greater enjoyment and perceived attractiveness of the medium (Wanta & Gao, 1995), and help the newspaper look more aesthetically pleasing (Rivers & Matthews, 1988)
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t is critically important that we ensure that students—particularly those with learning and other disabilities—develop strong digital literacy skills so that they can fully participate in secondary and postsecondary education and in the careers that await them.
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teachers have found that using technology may help address students' specific learning needs.
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any students having trouble with writing fluency can benefit from teachers integrating technology into the classroom. And sometimes tried-and-true technology works the best.
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"Students with writing difficulties are able to produce a text that looks good, and they can go back and fix things without introducing new mistakes."
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Digital literacy
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It means having the knowledge and ability to use a range of technology tools for varied purposes.
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Students with learning disabilities and emotional problems account for nearly 60% of all children receiving special services in schools today, and their numbers are rising each year.4 These students often have persistent problems learning and behaving appropriately in school, problems that may become apparent only after teachers work with the students for weeks or months. Such students are likely to be given a broad label indicating only that their academic and social progress is unsatisfactory because of a disability,14 and their problems often persist despite a teacher's efforts to meet their students' needs within the regular program.
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students' disabilities ranged from speech and language impairments to mental retardation, and more than half were described as having a specific learning disability due to a psychological disorder.8 Children with disabilities vary with respect to the type and number of disabilities they have, and their disabilities vary in cause, degree, and the effect they have on the child's educational progress. Although children with disabilities are a very diverse group, data describing the demographic characteristics of students with disabilities suggest the following: More than half of all students receiving special services are males. Most are in elementary or middle school. Most have no obvious disability; they have problems that are primarily academic, emotional, social, or behavioral.
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Teachers have found that technological innovations can help level the playing field for special needs students and enable these students to succeed in the regular classroom.12 Technology for students with special needs is defined by federal law as “any item, piece of equipment, or product system, whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified, or customized, that is used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities.”13 This broad definition encompasses a wide variety of both high-end and low-end technologies that have proven to be useful for improving educational options for students with disabilities. The following sections describe how various applications of computer technology can help meet the individual needs of students with disabilities and enable them to function effectively in the school setting.
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The Use Of Computer Technology to help students with special needs Be More Literate.
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For instance, assessments of the ability of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disoder (ADHD) to function in a classroom have involved the use of virtual reality (VR) technology.6
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Virtual classrooms allow for the simulation of the mulitiple concurrent demands of the classroom in an individualized assessment scenario.
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I'm going to use this as my reference. Im going to talk about how specific disabilities are improved by certain iPhone and other apple products.
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Example #5: A teacher of students learning to read JoAnn is a second-grade teacher. She has a number of students who, for various reasons, are experiencing difficulty with reading. Each week, JoAnn posts on the school website a list of 20 vocabulary words that will be used in upcoming language arts lessons. Parents can then download these words and use them at home. One of her students, Philip, has been diagnosed with an audio processing disorder that causes him to mishear and subsequently mispronounce parts of words, which is slowing down his ability to decode new words and develop reading fluency. Ongoing pull-out sessions with a speech and language specialist are having an impact, and Philip's parents are working closely with him at home using suggested word games and computer programs. Philip's father, George, is an artist who has begun loading the weekly vocabulary and other words into a flash card iPhone application he found on the App Store. George creates silly images (photos, clip art, drawings) on his computer, records an audio pronunciation of the word to accompany each card, and loads the resulting audio and images onto his iPhone. Philip loves playing with this personalized deck on his father's iPhone. Whenever they are in the car or doing errands, Philip eagerly plays with the flash cards, testing his ability to recognize and pronounce each word. JoAnn has been intrigued by how many students in her class love the idea of making their own multimedia flash cards. She applied for a grant and used the funds to purchase 10 iPod touch devices for the class. She has begun expanding the cards and audio for certain target words to create customized homework decks that directly address specific students' learning challenges with decoding and phonemic awareness. She has hundreds of images and examples to use from worksheets and has also invited her colleagues to help build out this literacy and language arts tool. JoAnn's students also use the iPod unit
