Technology help

The journal article that I have chosen focuses on the use of technology with special needs students. The title is "Cheshire tried new approach in special-ed". There is a group of educators who are trying to incorporate computers and technology into a class room to help special needs children with their learning. The educators are trying to find a way that the students can learn in the school right along with the others students who may not have special needs. That want to try to avoid having to send them to specialized programs outside the district. The project is more like an assistance program in the class room for the special needs child. A class room and a special needs teacher would work together with coming up with a system that could better assist the special needs student in the classroom.
Computers and computer programs used to assist the special needs student would give them access to general education curriculum. There were several things that were on display that were being tested for the classroom in the project. One of the things was a screen reader that could take classroom material and convert it into spoken words. The student could also take there own notes from an on screen duplicate text book and they can just highlight the words or passages they want to use as notes. This may be more work for the class room teacher but that is why they want to pair a classroom teacher up with a special education teacher so they can use these technologies together with the students.
I selected this article because I myself am studying to be a special education teacher and I want to see what technologies are being studied that can help the special needs students develop in the class room more. I wanted to see what is being used to have the child who may not be as advanced as some students comprehending the same type of educational material. I believe the ideas in this article would be good to use for a special education child who may need a little more help in the class room. Seeing what is being done for those students with different challenges is very encouraging to me as I continue my education and one day be directly teaching myself. If you would like to learn more about this article click here.