October / November 2010
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Editorial Feature
How Schools can Successfully Implement iPod touch and iPad for Children with Special Needs
By
Eric Sailers
The AIMing for Achievement Series: What Educators and Families Need to Know About Accessible Instructional Materials - Part One
By
Diana Carl and Joy Zabala
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Both the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (currently called NCLB) and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA 2004) include compelling requirements for state and local education agencies (SEAs and LEAs) to ensure that all students, including those with disabilities, receive the supports and services they need to access, participate and achieve in the general educational curriculum. Unfortunately, the printed textbooks and instructional materials used in the general education curriculum are not useful to many students with disabilities. The very materials that are supposed to support learning actually create barriers to learning for students whose disabilities result in not being able to gain or use the information contained in typical textbooks and related printed instructional materials.
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ECT is as Big as Texas: The Stories and Tips of Environmental Communication Teaching
By
Kelly Fonner
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Welcome back to the journey through implementing communication in real classrooms through our stories of student cases from the Environmental Communication Teaching training series. If you go to the link on Closing The Gap's Web site, you can download a document with the full description of ECT and the research information, but here is a short synopsis of the training that teams go through. In order to participate in ECT you must attend as a part of a team.
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DISKoveries: Special Needs: New software, DVDs and Professional Resources
By
Joan Tanenhaus
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Tenth Planet Literacy Bundle (Sunburst: 800-321-7511, www.sunburst.com) This is an excellent literacy series that has motivating hands-on activities that help learners to increase reading, spelling and writing skills. Age appropriate for older students and adults, it has phonemic awareness activities, activities for letter-sound relationships and vowel and word-parts, and helps develop awareness of patterns of letters and sounds and awareness of larger units of meaning. Letter Sounds: This is the first in the series, designed for Preschool to Grade 1 skills, and stresses sound symbol associations of consonants.
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iParent: Using Creative Ideas Utilizing Apples Technology to Create Visual Supports Across All Environments
By
Marie Duggan
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This story is about a mom, a son with autism, visual supports, AAC/AT, trials and tribulations, emerging speech, technology, family and unconditional love. Let me introduce myself. My name is Marie Duggan, I am the mother of six beautiful children. Michael was diagnosed with autism when he was 18 months old.
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Reading Accommodations
By
Denise DeCoste
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No Child Left Behind and IDEA regulations have set the stage for using standardized assessments to measure the progress of all students. Test scores influence key decisions regarding placement, graduation and school effectiveness. With over six million students with disabilities, accountability through testing is imperative, but only if we can ensure that students' test performance are valid and reliable measures of knowledge, skills and abilities.
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