Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities Essay

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For my first grade class, I would use technology to help accommodate the needs of students with disabilities. Current classroom accommodations for students with disabilities include using an audio recorder to record lessons (the student can play them back at home and listen to them again), using audio books to help the student with reading comprehension (the student with the disability can listen to the book as it is read while he or she reads along), and using a word processor for certain assignments or exams.

Ideas for accommodations could include having class sessions recorded on a digital file that can be emailed to the student’s parents and watched again at home. This would accentuate what is currently available—the option of using an audio recorder to record the lessons given by the teacher. The disadvantage of an audio recording is that usually I use a lot of visual aids to support the lesson and these are lost with an audio recording. So an audio-visual recording that can be uploaded to a cloud platform like Google Docs and shared among parents who want to help their disabled children would be a great way to accommodate their needs. Video recorders are easily available today, are cheap and are very efficient and so too is cloud computing technology: so this would be a good way to go.

These lessons could also be played back for students with disabilities in the classroom while their peers work on other items.

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The disabled students could watch the lesson again so that it is more deeply impressed on their minds as they do their work as well. This could take place in the rear of the classroom or off to the side.

A plan to implement the use of the audio-video recorder in class to facilitate the lessons for students with disabilities along with a playback screen would begin by setting up the technology in class and allowing students the time to engage with it. The change would be monitored by examining homework scores of the students with disabilities to see if their in-class assignments improve after being able to re-watch the lesson a second time. Their at-home assignments would also be monitored for improvement over an 8-week period of time. 8 weeks should be sufficient time to assess whether the accommodation is effective. Direct observation and formal assessments would be used as a….....

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