Assistive Technology
Assistive technology can be simple or complex, and enable learners to access this more independently.
What is their environment?
Systematic instruction can be used by an educator to teach a student how to use this in the classroom.
What is technology?
The use of technology in an educational setting has the potential to provide this to all learners.
What is access?
These devices are worn on the head, strapped to the chin or held in the mouth by learners to press the keys on a keyboard.
What are wands and sticks?
IDEA 2004 requires that a planning committee must “consider whether the child needs assistive technology devices and services” during this meeting.
What is an IEP meeting?
The IEP team must consider the need for an AT device at three points, with the first consideration starting when they review this.
What is the present level of performance?
Technology can provide instruction to learners in a systematic way in order to learn this?
What is an unknown skill?
Instructional technology should be used in a way that enhances learning and facilitates this for the learner.
What is independence?
These systems allow a learner who would otherwise be unable to access to a computer to do so through the action of inhaling and exhaling.
What are sip-and-puff systems?
The Tech Act, along with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, authorizes states and school districts to provide these devices and services to students with disabilities who need such devices and services.
What is assistive technology?
When determining the placement of a student, the IEP team needs to consider the level of success of the student with an appropriate AT device and related services in these.
What are different settings?
This kind of prompting uses a time-delay procedure, with the learner using technology to assist them only after they have attempted the first step of a task.
What is video prompting?
Instructional technology is used to aid learners in acquiring knowledge and skills. whether or not they have this.
What is a cognitive disability?
If a learner's speech cannot be understood by others or is delayed, they can use this board to look directly at the words they would like to express to communicate.
What is an eye-gaze board?
The Tech act, known formally as this, was passed by Congress and signed into law in 1988, recognizing the importance of AT devices and services.
What is the Technology-Related Assistance Act?
Assistive technology eliminates barriers that prevent students with disabilities from attaining the same level of learning as their classmates, ultimately fostering this in the classroom.
What is inclusion?
Using this kind of instruction, learners view a task being performed in a video and then attempt to perform the task independently, getting prompted by an instructor if needed.
What is video modeling?
Instructional technology may overlap with this depending on whether the technology results in independent performance of a skill or if the technology continues to be used to aid the learner over time.
In order to avoid this, teachers, administrators, and related services professionals must go through a careful decision-making process to select an appropriate device for a student.
What is technology abandonment?
IDEA states that an AT device is any item that is “used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of a child with a disability” however it explicitly excludes “a medical device that has been this, or the replacement of such device”.
What is surgically implanted?