One in five students has dyslexia – that translates to 20% of the student population. What might be seen as laziness or acting out in reality is a student inwardly struggling with reading, writing, and spelling. Learn more about why students struggle, what to look for, and how to support dyslexic students in your district with appropriate accommodations and interventions.
Join Alexandra Dunn, speech language pathologist at Upper Canada District School Board, and Heather Snider, grade 2/3 teacher at Glen Tay Public School in Perth, Ontario, Canada, as they talk about collaborative learning environments built around the tenets of Universal Design for Learning (UDL).
Attendees of this webinar learned about the Visual Immersion Program by exploring its core beliefs: the 7 functions of communication, foundational tools, emerging familiarity, and emergent understanding. Participants learned about assistive technology tools, including low-tech versus high-tech, foundational apps/devices, emerging familiarity apps/devices, and emergent understanding apps/devices.
Big Deal Media’s newest enewsletter provides educators with easily accessible resources and more to meet the individual needs of their students.
Implementation doesn’t come with a download. Whether your student is using a free AAC app, a simple app, a complex app, or an app that costs hundreds of dollars, student and partner strategies probably aren’t as easy as the click was to install the app. Well there is no need to get discouraged and think that you have to download another app to get to AAC utopia!
Presented by David Banes, President of Mada, Center for Assistive Technology in Doha, Qatar Co-hosted by edWeb.net, SIIA, DeBakey International, MindShare Learning, and ForwardThinkingEDU. View the webinar “Access for All” In this session David Banes, the CEO of Mada, describes the work of the Qatar Assistive Technology Center in Doha. Established three years ago, Mada… read more →