Using iPads with Students with Intellectual Disabilities. Definition of an Intellectual Disability ‘Intellectual disability is a broad concept encompassing various intellectual deficits, including mental retardation (MR), deficits too mild to properly qualify as MR, various conditions such as specific learning disability, and problems acquired later in life through acquired brain injuries or neurodegenerative diseases like dementia.
Intellectual disabilities may appear at any age.’ [Source - Intellectual disability is a disability characterized by significant limitations both in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behaviour, which covers many everyday social and practical skills. This disability usually originates before the age of 18. Standardized tests can also determine limitations in adaptive behaviour, which comprises three skill types: ‘On the basis of such many-sided evaluations, professionals can determine whether an individual has an intellectual disability and can tailor a support plan for each individual.’ Critical Analysis Shapes. Learning Disabilities. We’ve all been under rising pressure to embrace mobile technologies, such as the iPad or Android tablets, as part of our toolkit to support students, clients and family members.
There’s no doubt that these technologies are very exciting but the rapid rate at which this landscape changes can also be a little daunting! For the iPad, there are well over 775,000 apps to choose from and this number is constantly increasing! More and more apps and accessories are being developed every day to support children and adults with autism, intellectual and physical disabilities.
There are apps for communication, social skill development, displaying visual schedules and provide positive behavior support. Is your head already spinning?!?! The BIG question is: How do you connect the individual’s needs with the right tool? Accessibility - iPad - Physical and Motor Skills. Accessibility - iPad - Vision. iPads in the Special Education Classroom.
A number of built-in accessibility features, tools, and add-ons are helping to prompt Apple's iPad into the classroom.
Now, the push to get textbooks accessed through this device to get rid of all those heavy books, ah, it is happening!! With a text reader and highlighter, this will really be something worth talking about. Students learn in different ways. The iPad can provide visual, audio and tactile learning; reaching many students’ learning styles. With every new operating system, the up-dates added have included various accessibility options. Is it the best tool out there? Concerns and thoughts: In the special education classroom, as a classroom tool, one of the concerns that I have is that the iPad is often used as an individual tool in isolation, not a tool for collaboration and integration.
Parents are also often using the iPad as a reward and/or keep them busy and quiet tool. How to use an iPad in the classroom with a group? As with everything, we tend to go to extremes. Special needs. Please can anyone help us?
We are looking for hearing devices, for example FM systems linked to hearing aids that can connect directly to iPads. We want to assist children to record the teachers voice in a class on their iPads, so that the iPad can function as a note taking device. We need to record the teachers voice via an FM system over a distance. Any suggestions will be appreciated. Toddler Sandbox, formerly known as “Wipe and Learn”, is an early-learning iPad app for K-2 children, which is also highly recommended for children with special needs. “Sandbox” involves children swiping their finger across the screen to reveal a hidden picture. For: Early Childhood Students, Students with Special Needs Cost: $0.99 (Download) Requires WiFi? Further Reading iPads are an excellent way to provide individualized learning materials and re-inforcement for students with a wide range of learning abilities. Differentiating Instruction Scaffolding Learning Sensory Learning. iPhone, iPad and iPod touch Apps for (Special) Education.
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