PS6: Collaborates with special educators & student support professional to identify and implement technologies to support the learning of students with various forms of disabilities
I look forward to the day when "disabilities" are no longer referred to as such, and instead, we simply acknowledge that every learner has strengths and weaknesses, and that there are tools and strategies to help negotiate both.
I have had a great deal of success helping teachers integrate tools such as speech to text, apps like Read2Go that help struggling readers access textbooks, a plethora of games that help build math and reading skills, and how to use the mastery tracking functions of Schoology Enterprise to track progress on IEP goals. I regularly work with special educators to help support their work with students.
One of our special educators uses the mastery tracking function of Schoology to track progress on IEP goals. I helped her get started with this work.
We have some students currently enrolled who are nonverbal, and one special educator reached out to me about apps that might help support one of these students. I found one that many people had used successfully--Proloquo2Go--but it was quite expensive. Unsure about its effectiveness for this student, I was met with resistance about trying it out. So I reached out to the company to request a trial, and as you can see from this email clip, we were granted one. The student uses the app regularly and it helps him communicate with peers, his paraeducator, and the special educator on a daily basis.