Students with disabilities: 5 assistive technology tools that help children with disabilities

If we talk about learning disabilities among different age group kids, there are many learning disabilities like, Dyscalculia affects the ability to understand mathematics and numbers.

Dysgraphia the disability of handwriting, In this condition, the letters are impaired. 

Dyslexia is a specific learning disability in which students cannot read and use proper language-based skills. 

• Autism Spectrum disorder
• Deaf (Hearing Impairment)
• Blindness 
• Emotional disturbance
• Orthopedic impairment
• Oral and written language disability
• Visual impairment and many other disabilities are found in the classroom. 

Students with learning disabilities have trouble surviving in the classroom with reading, writing and everything in class. The school faculty can not take them separately. It’s necessary to accommodate these students with special needs with open arms in traditional and online schools.

In traditional schools, students with disabilities do not disclose their disability in the classroom or their professors. 

There is no space for disabled students in traditional schools. Students who disclose their disabilities will not receive the proper accommodations. 

It is necessary to choose the special schools for disabled students for accessibility resources and protocols. Homeschooling Online is the best choice for disabled students to provide proper accommodations with all facilities.

Traditional schools and disabled student’s Accommodation:

• The students need patience, respect and extra care, which cannot be sought in schools.
• They need to speak clearly for each of them, but it can’t happen in classrooms or by teachers.
• Disable students take a long time to understand, but the behavior of professors in traditional schools is opposite.
• They need to provide complete information about lessons. 
• They cannot go through studies by themselves like surprise tests and assignments. So, physical school is not a good option for disabled students. The teachers and faculty of traditional schools are not able. 
• That is how to help them in subjects, so they hurt them. As a result, students become lazier and dump with the behavior and burden of traditional school.
• These are some academic needs required by a disabled student for learning. The situation is exhausted and not intended by the traditional schools. 

Online learning is the best choice for all types of disabled students. Using different techniques and methods can help them with several students.

If we talk about Homeschooling, The ISBerne Online is an American Online school for all types of students in UAE from kindergarten to Grade 12. 

ISBerne Online, an Online Middle School, was established as the sister school of Berne International School Switzerland. They are delivering high-quality education with over 50 years of experience. The instructor provides students with a high-class learning experience. That helps the students to reach their full potential as they prepare for high studies and beyond. 

ISBerne Online offers an American school Diploma to take Advanced Placement courses. ISBerne online provides their diverse facilities more than countries. Depending upon learning challenges, ISBerne provides education options for disabled students with all accommodations.

In homeschooling, disabled students gain easy access to all study materials right at their homes. The online learning set-up removes the hassle of physical exhaustion with the help of mobile and laptops.  

Online study makes life very easy for deaf or visually impaired students. Technology tools help disabled students in their studies. Online education allows a convenient and complimentary educational journey for disabled students. It can help remove discouragement, hesitation and wards of fear faced in traditional schools.

There are many assistive technologies and adaptive tools for disabled students in homeschooling, are following:

Audio players and recorders:

   It can make students be able to listen to the words very clearly. Many e-books have an audio file recording lectures that can make the student read aloud on the student’s computer or mobiles. Text-to-speech is a software that helps disabled students a lot,

Reading guides:

Reading guides are an excellent tool for those students who have trouble with visual tracking and need to help focus on-page. The plastic strip highlights help the student with surrounding words that might be a distraction.

Ghotit:

Ghotit is an application specially designed for dyslexia, and many other disability disorders have writing issues. The name of Ghotit was inspired by the word  “Ghoti”, which means illustrating the irregularities in the English language. Ghotit is an application that helps the spellings auto-correct.

Math Tools:

A range of mathematics technology tools like calculator, maple, Matlab and MuPad can help students with dyscalculia. Dyscalculia makes the numbers grasp and lack understanding of the field of math. So, math tools and math talks are tools for disabled students.

FM Systems:

Fm systems are the best choice for students who have sensorineural hearing loss. FM systems work by broadcast technology, with a transmitter microphone and a receiver. A skilful technical tool for all ages of hearing loss. Pass from the American speech-language and Hearing association.

Overall, the advancement of technology in special education grows day by day. With promises to increase, the instructors of special education relief the disabled students.