Technology and Special Needs Students

Technology allows students the opportunity to work at their own level and pace. There are various computer programs that students can work with that will give them immediate feed back on skills that are being practiced or learned. Our group discussed the various programs and the intelligence(s) that are used when a student works with a particular program. For example, for students that may have difficulties reading, they can use talking books to help them learn to read. The program will highlight individual words, phrases, whole sentences or entire pages depending on what the student needs assistance with. This particular piece of technology would incorporate linguistic and intrapersonal. I'm sure there are many more. We made a list of some of the software and computer programs that are out and listed some of the intelligences that would be used. Some of the programs we came up with are Brainpop, Starfall, Edhelper, Kidznumber and Rainforest math. I enjoyed the article and listening to the other groups discuss their question and answers.