[blindkid] tech general in IEP

[Dr. Denise M Robinson]

Rosina

He can do ALL this on a laptop with jaws and a braille
display---completely  eliminating for any hard copy work--print work that
he cannot read himself anyway. Main Goals: Using Word and email---gmail is
one of the easiest to use with jaws, should be the priority---he doing all
his work in word, then emailing to teacher, teacher using track changes to
mark his work, sends it back and jaws will read all the markup....all by
himself. Teacher asks kids to read a book and he downloads it himself and
begins reading just like everyone else.

Look around your area to see if there is someone---typically going to be a
blind person using this tech already, and work on getting this person as
part of the IEP team....then that person can teach the tech----when I teach
like this, I insist the TVI be there to learn along with the student...or
the para, or some adult who will follow through on the lessons....etc

Denise

On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Rosina Solano <colemangirly at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Okay, all this laptop and braille note is getting me ready to ask a couple
> questions.  Okay, my school district has been great with braille, but
> horrible with technology.  My son is in 9th grade and still brailling all
> his homework.  Getting ready to take them on with tech.  Cost is only part
> issue since we already have both a braille sense and a laptop with jaws
> that we have at home.  I just need to get training for him on it.  He goes
> over some stuff with his TVI every other day, when he sees her, but she is
> not tech and this is becoming silly.  How do you get the tech into the IEP
> and what are some general goals concerning tech that we should be aiming
> for?  I know that if he could be downloading some of his own books, that
> would help with cost for the school down the road, as well as the TVI's
> time brailling all his work, if he could do it all on the computer.  Being
> not so tech myself, I am a little lost down this road.
>
> Rosina
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