Edtech Equalizers in Special Education
July 17, 2018
By: Matt Zalaznick
Source: District Administration
Ware County School District in Georgia has downsized its inventory of assistive technology. Thanks to a slew of technological advances, many of the specialized tools their special education students had used to communicate and learn are now redundant.
“We don’t need portable keyboards or word processors anymore,” says Barbara Sonnier, the district’s assistive technology coordinator. That’s good news for district administrators providing services to a growing number of students at a time when special education budgets have stagnated.
Voice-to-text is now a common feature on smartphones, computers and tablets. And with the addition of a few apps or extensions, an iPad or Chromebook meets the needs of many special education students.