Can schools help children receive technology devices? Such as something that will help an eight year old that is having difficulties with reading,writting,math and has been diagnosed with a learning disability.At his I.E.P. I expressed the fact that I felt that a learning device would assist him with his school.Such as a computer,or an Alpha Smart or something that phonics could be downloaded in.
I work for a school district and as you know on the IEP for a student that is receiving a special service or related service we must consider Assistive Technology as a part of the IEP for the student. We have a process to define a problem and then look at ways to address the problem and consider what would assist the student. We have a way through a coalition our school district works with to trial devices and assistive technology with a student. For example, we would look at an alphasmart for a student and trial it for a period of time to see if it was assisting the area of need the team discussed. We also trial softeware for a student and computer adaptations as the Intellikeys and the software that goes with it, Intellitalk II. Continue to look into your issues.
Denise Murzyn,
Speech