1.5+Assistive+Technology+10+Questions

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**Access technologies include those applications of technologies that provide a way for students with disabilities to better “access” classroom instructional materials provided as a part of the general curriculum. Some examples are alternative keyboards, which allow the student to press a picture and see the word spelled out on a screen, and page turners that consists of a machine that turns pages at a press of a button.** =====

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**Adaptive technologies include customized systems that help individual students move about, communicate in, and control their environments. These are devices that are designed specifically for persons with disabilities and would seldom be used by non-disabled persons. Examples: TTY (teletypewriter) This device provides a way for persons with deafness to communicate via the phone.** =====

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 * School districts are required under law to provide appropriate AT to students with disabilities when it supports their acquisition of a free and appropriate public education. IDEA indicates that AT devices and services must be made available to a child with a disability if required as a part of the child's- Special education, Related services or Supplementary aids and services. ** ** **In o**rder to support the inclusion and participation of students with disabilities in regular education classrooms, all IEP's developed for children identified as needing special education services, must indicate that AT has been considered to "to provide meaningful access to the general curriculum" (IDEA, 1997). ** =====

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**Provide services that are necessary for children to benefit from special education by taking into consideration students special needs as well as socioeconomic status and making it easily accessible for students. To extend the guarantee to a Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) to children with disabilities, ages 3-5. - To establish Early Intervention Programs (EIP) for infants and toddlers with disabilities, ages 0-2. - To develop an Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP) for each family with an infant/toddler with disabilities. ** =====

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**An IEP is an Individualized Education Program. This program offers guidance in implementing the requirements needed by the student, it must indicate the specific type of assistive technology required in order the student to meet their goals. School districts are required under law to provide appropriate AT to students with disabilities when it supports their acquisition of a free and appropriate public education (FAPE). Individualized Education Program is assistive technology should be considered for every student with a disability when the technology can help to compensate for the limitations that the disability presents to support the student in making reasonable educational progress in the least restrictive educational setting.** =====