Finding Common Ground
Students with muscle control deficits
Download Finding Common Ground - Muscle Control
You will be given the following as a work page.
Divide the table below into three columns:
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Then go through the list of Exceptionalities and fill in the table.
Behaviour Exceptionalities
Intellectual Exceptionalities
Gifted
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MID
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DD
Physical Exceptionalities
Neuro-Muscular
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Vision Impaired
Communication Exceptionalities
Hard-of-Hearing
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Autism
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Speech Impaired
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Language Impaired
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Learning Disabled
Type #1 Language Delayed or Language Learning Disability
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Type #2 Non-Verbal Learning Disability - Visual-Spatial Deficits
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Type #3 Small or Large Muscle Difficulties
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What type of difficulties do you predict students with large muscle difficulties will have in a class? (Students who may be clumsy or use walkers or wheel chairs).
What type of difficulties do you predict students with small muscle difficulties will have in a class?
Think of a lesson you have taught and determine how you could have differentiated your instruction or made accommodations for students who had difficulties of this kind?
Can you improve these deficits?
The following is a list of all the technologies available in our lab. After researching and experimenting with each, determine which would or would not be applicable to students with Muscle Control deficits. Justify your answer.
Clicker5 - writing support and multimedia tool
CoWriter 4000 Solo - editing supports
Write: Outloud Solo - text-to-speech support
Premier Literacy Suite - suite of 10 tools to support reading and writing
AlphaSmart - portable word-processing tools
Intellikeys - customizable touch keyboard
Premier - Literacy Suite - suite of 10 tools to support reading and writing
Kurzweil - digitize text and read using text-to-speech
Screen Magnification Software
ZoomText - enlarge display and read outloud
JAWS - translates text to audio output
Intellikeys - customizable touch keyboard
Dragon Naturally Speaking - translates spoken language into text
Kidspiration - graphical mapping tool
Inspiration- simple graphical mapping tool
Smart Ideas- graphical mapping tool
How can you use these technologies in class to not only differentiate instruction for specific students, but using the principles of Universal Design, make your classroom and lesson inclusive for all students?
Are there other technologies that can be used for Universal Design, or other ways of making those aspects of your lessons that involve muscle control accessible to all? (Remember that some students may have visual-motor or hand-to-eye coordination difficulties and therefore have difficulties with such things as copying notes from the board).
