It’s crushing to see a student with dyslexia “stuck” with remedial content when they’re capable of so much more. They carry the weight of their reading disability far beyond their reading instruction—and into their content area classwork which is often inaccessible.
What can you do to help?
This session will show you how to empower your students with dyslexia/dysgraphia (and other print disabilities) to take control of their own accessibility needs and thereby enhance their participation in classroom activities by:
- Helping students build their own toolkits (so they take ownership in their own success)
- Creating proactive and integrative interventions with assistive technologies to supplement remediation
- Learning to match tools with students’ unique learning styles
- Avoiding pitfalls when implementing accessibility tools with students
Ultimately, students need to be empowered to drive their own accessibility needs. Join Mark Surabian as he shares how by drawing from over 30 years of experience working with thousands of students.
Brenda Bender joins Mark to show specific AT supports for students with dyslexia and dysgraphia including Co:Writer® (Word Prediction and Voice Typing to get ideas unstuck and into writing) and Snap&Read™ (Text to Speech, PDF Annotation, Text Leveling, Study Tools/Highlighter to stay focused and organize assignments).