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Middle grade female student using assistive technology at home

Assistive Technology for Students with Attention Issues

How can teachers and parents help students with attention issues, who have trouble getting organized or paying attention?

We have a whole host of tools these days. One interesting thing about students with ADHD is they often have real difficulty with the perception of time. So often a student will sit down, and they’ll start doing their homework, and they say, “You know what? I’m going to take a five minute break,” and the next thing they know, their parents are getting mad at them, because an hour and a half has gone by, and they’ve only done six questions out of the 30 questions that they have to complete.

Assistive Technology for the Physical Act of Writing

Are there tools that can help make the physical act of writing easier?

For writing, the best approach is still teaching good old keyboarding skills. But it can be important to have the right keyboard. Often when teachers work with young kids, they give them a regular sized keyboard, but the child's hands aren't big enough for a regular size, and you see their little pinky stretching all the way to the far sides to grab those keys. So you need to size the keyboard, and often the keyboards used for cash registers are really nice. They're about half the size of regular keyboards.

Assistive Technology Glossary

It is important for parents to understand the “language” of assistive technology so they can be informed advocates for their child’s technology needs. The following glossary of terms can help parents learn about the kinds of assistive technologies that are currently available and how they can be used.

Assistive Technology Tools: Reading

Learn about assistive technology tools — from audiobooks to variable-speed tape recorders — that help students with reading.

Assistive Technology Tools: Writing

Learn about assistive technology tools — from abbreviation expanders to word-recognition software programs — that address your child’s specific writing difficulties.
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Phillip Hoose

Attucks! Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City

Genre:
Biography
Age Level:
Middle Grade, YA

By winning the state high school basketball championship in 1955, ten teens from an Indianapolis school meant to be the centerpiece of racially segregated education in the state shattered the myth of their inferiority. Anchored by the astonishing Oscar Robertson, a future college and NBA star, the Crispus Attucks Tigers went down in history as the first state champions from Indianapolis and the first all-black team in U.S. history to win a racially open championship tournament—an integration they had forced with their on-court prowess. From native Hoosier and award-winning author Phillip Hoose comes this true story of a team up against impossible odds, making a difference when it mattered most.

 

Audio Holiday

With the holidays around the corner, there may be a long car ride in your family’s future…

Detail of book cover To Kill a Mockingbird

Audiobooks

Audiobooks can help re-create the pleasure of being read to as a child. Lots of great titles are available from Audible.com(opens in a new window), in partnership with Amazon, for immediate download, so you can start listening right away! Our list features some of the best recordings of the last five years.