These three tips help students with learning differences benefit from accommodations and online resources that accelerate learning during the “great catch up.”
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Published April 21, 2021
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Published December 3, 2020
Innovation is “The Eagle Way” at Chief Ivan Blunka School (Part 2)
In Part 2 of 2, Ben Griese, special education teacher at Chief Ivan Blunka School in rural Alaska, discusses the benefits of digital voices and other features, books guaranteed to entice reluctant readers, and advice for parents and teachers to foster a love of reading and support students on their journey to reading independence.
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Published December 2, 2020
Innovation is “The Eagle Way” at Chief Ivan Blunka School (Part 1)
In Part 1 of 2, Ben Griese, special education teacher at Chief Ivan Blunka School, uses Bookshare, assistive technology, and creativity to engage reluctant readers in a Southwest Yup’ik community in New Stuyahok, Alaska.
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Published October 22, 2020
Jolene Nemeth is a Master of Reinvention
Jolene Nemeth is a Vocational Rehabilitation Technologist and Bookshare member who helps blind students use technology to succeed in college and pursue meaningful employment as adults.
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Published May 27, 2020
Expert Insights: How Distance Learning Changed Education and Opened the Door to Assistive Technology
Assistive technology tools and online resources like Bookshare can help students with disabilities during this time of distance learning.
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Published January 23, 2020
Expert Insights: Language Therapist Reveals Effective Accommodations for Students with Dyslexia
Tiffany Jenkins is a Certified Academic Language Therapist who helps students with dyslexia use accommodations like Bookshare to improve reading success.
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Published August 29, 2019
#BeReady: How Assistive Technology Helps Students with Learning Differences Read Independently
Amy Ratajczak, a speech-language pathologist, explains how assistive technology helps students with reading comprehension, decoding, and fluency so they can access grade-level text independently.
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Published May 14, 2019
EXPERT INSIGHTS: Assistive Technology Personalizes the Learning Environment
Scott Richards, Occupational Therapist and Assistive Technology Specialist, shares the low-to-high tech solutions and strategies that help students with disabilities reach their potential.
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Published March 14, 2019
“You Name It, We’re Using It”
Kim Mountjoy, lead teacher for vision services in Metro Nashville Public Schools, is an itinerant supervisor who supports teachers who serve students directly. She shares how teachers in her district help students with reading barriers and other challenges.
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Published February 27, 2019
How Bookshare is Closing the Literacy Gap in Alaska (Part 2)
In Part 1, we learned how Mystie Rail, Executive Director of Assistive Technology of Alaska, provides resources for Alaskans with disabilities. In Part 2, we learn how high school student LenaMarie leverages Bookshare, Voice Dream Reader, and other resources to succeed in her classes. LenaMarie is seventeen and lives in Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow) which lies 320 miles north of the Arctic Circle. She was diagnosed with dyslexia and dysgraphia and also experiences anxiety. School was very challenging, and she often felt like a failure. Her parents urged the school to provide more accommodations like assistive technology (AT) and accessible instructional…
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