I thought Chapter 5 was very informative. I had never heard of several of the assistive technologies and programs. I am going to do more research on the Text - to -Speech software. I would like to get that at school and at home for my son. He has autism and has a lot of problems with speech and language.
Ira Socol was awesome. I loved the Skype with him. It was very interactive. He is an amazing person. I hope I can figure out how to help my students the way he does. He really inspired me to learn more and that we do not have to teach all kids the same.
I am very interested in this subject too. We should definitely explore this subject more. I really think that using assistive tech in the regular classroom should be a semester long class by itself.
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