Accessibility
Accessibility for All As a special education teacher this is something that is important to me. Students who have disabilities should be provided with the opportunity to be just as successful as their non disabled peers. For many of these students, they benefit from, accomodations, modifications, and assistive technology to help them reach their full potential. Going back to my college days, I took a class on assistive technology. The majority of this class focused on assistive technology that would help support students who had significant disabilities. I remember learning a lot about switches, picture communication boards, and augmented communication devices. These pieces are important for a percentage of students, but many students do not need that intensive level of assistive technology to gain accessibility to the classroom and their daily activities. Check out the image below that outlines some additional examples of assistive technology that can help improve ...