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| Serge has highly advanced social skills, and flourishes during group activites, but has difficulty grasping basic literacy skills. |
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| Serge is like many children with learning disabilities who have both areas of strength and areas for improvement. His academic frustrations center on his difficulty decoding text, and fine motor development delays that make handwritten assignments fraught with stress. To help Serge reach his potential, Ms. Ellis needs to use his strengths in the social arena and provide him with tools that begin to address some of his special needs. |
| Technology can help! "...technology serves two major purposes: to augment an individual's strengths, thereby counterbalancing the effects of the disability, and to provide an alternative mode of performing a task. Thus, the use of technology allows students to compensate for their disability or circumvent it entirely." Quenneville, J., Preventing School Failure, Summer 2001, v.45, No. 4, pp 167-170 LDonline (3/28/02). |
| Read about technology options for students like Serge by clicking on the links below. I suggest opening a new window in your browser to view these sites (so you don't get lost). Simply go to FILE in your web browser, click NEW, then WINDOW. You will get a copy of this page. Go ahead and explore from there. When you are done, just close the copy window, and return to this one. |
| Software that reads the words on a computer screen are known as text-readers. These can be extremely helpful for students with decoding difficulties. Do you want to learn more? Click here to go to the page on assistive technology. |
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| Where would you like to go? |
| Not ready for assistive technology yet? Want to go back to STEP 6? OK. Click here. |
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