In this link you can find 10 examples that will help you understand assistive technology in today’s classroom.
The first link I chose that can be helpfulfor others talks about what assistive technology is and how it works. Below that link you’ll find other sub-links that give examples on the tools that can be used, how IEP teams decide on assistive technology, and so much more. It’s a great website to use if you’re getting started.
The second link i have provided is an article that discuss how you can use this type of technology for students that have learning disabilities. This article is helpful for any Teacher and Special Interventionist looking for ways to help make learning easier for the students who need more help.
The third link provides the reader with the basics they need to know about assistive technology and what devices can be used in the classroom to make sure the student gets what they need to be successful.
Once you feel liked you mastered the basic knowledge about assistive technology you can use this link to start looking at specific technologies. In this article you will find 25 examples of assistive tools that can help in your classroom.
For this link you can see it provides the viewer with more videos and tools to help make this information easier to grasp as a teacher. Very fun website with many sub-links to explore and go more in dept.
For this next link you can either do one of two things you can save it to your computer or you can print it out and place it in a binder to look back at. This website is a PDF that gives you basically everything you need to know about assistive technology.
This link deals with student with disabilities who need tech support or different tools to help them, some of the tools are the same from the other links, but i saw a couple new ones that might help teachers expand their tools.
http://www.ldonline.org/article/6380/
The final link I provided basically wraps up everything you learned about the technology and talks about how it has an impact on your students when you use it. http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/6917?ref=search