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Career > Accommodations
Assistive Technology at Work: Finding and Funding the Tools You Need
...who need assistive technology at work encounter...reader, a voice recognition program, or an ergonomic...Pays for Assistive Technology at Work. Under the...ADA, when assistive technology constitutes a reasonable...software like voice recognition programs and text-to-speech...programs and text-to-speech tools, and modified...programs fund assistive technology as part of an Individualized...
Assistive Tech > Hearing
Assistive Technologies to Enhance Communication for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
What is Assistive Technology? Assistive technology...technology? Assistive technology helps people with...hearing, assistive technology helps them communicate...examples of assistive technology for hearing are:...loss understand speech better. Hearing...captioning uses speech recognition software...captioning uses speech recognition software to make...similar but puts the speech into a text document...
Medical > Pediatrics
Therapeutic Approaches to Autism: Exploring Pediatric Possibilities
...detection, therapists can introduce interventions that help to encourage speech, social skills, and positive behaviors during the most significant period...period of neuroplasticity. Individualized Education Programs (IEP). The recognition of autism's spectrum nature has resulted in the creation of Individualized...
Assistive Tech > Virtual Assistants
Alexa vs. Google Home: Which Virtual Assistant Works Best for Your Disability?
...This matters for users with motor speech disorders, limited lung capacity,...advantage. For users with atypical speech patterns, including dysarthria associated...represents the full range of human speech, and users with significant dysarthria...significant dysarthria encounter recognition failures that neither platform handles...
Assistive Tech > Hearing
Real-Time Captioning for Deaf Students: CART vs. Auto-Captions and What Works
...features, operate through automatic speech recognition. Under good conditions,...operate through automatic speech recognition. Under good conditions, with a single...minimal background noise, and standard speech patterns, accuracy can reach 80–85%....specialized vocabulary, accented speech, and ambient noise, accuracy drops...
Assistive Tech > Apps
Special Needs App: Dragon Dictation
Dragon Dictation is a useful tool for people who have difficulty typing or translating their thoughts into written words. This voice recognition app is powered by Dragon Naturally Speaking and allows the user to speak the content of emails, text messages, notes or even status updates for social...
Research > Assistive Tech
Choosing AAC Devices Based on Research: What the Evidence Says About Effectiveness
Your child's speech therapist says it's time to try AAC. You start...of options: tablets loaded with apps, dedicated speech-generating devices, eye-gaze systems, picture boards,...outcomes consistently find that high-tech devices (speech-generating devices, tablets with AAC apps, eye-gaze...
Research > Assistive Tech
Brain-Computer Interfaces for Children Who Can't Speak: Research, Reality, and How to Access Trials
...approved the first wearable BCI for stroke rehabilitation in April 2021. Research into communication applications for children with severe motor and speech disabilities is active and growing. But most of what you'll read about is still in labs, most studies recruit adults, and the gap between "approved...
News > Research
When Studies Disagree: How to Make Sense of Conflicting Research as a Special Needs Parent
...studied different things, in different ways, with different people. A study on speech therapy outcomes for three-year-olds with autism who are minimally verbal...autism who are minimally verbal isn't measuring the same thing as a study on speech therapy for seven-year-olds with moderate language delays. The intervention...
Special Needs > Visual Impairments
Braille and Technology: Why Your Child with Visual Impairment Needs Both
...what the research shows: it's not a choice. Braille literacy and assistive technology serve different cognitive functions, and children who learn both have measurably...alone. What Screen Readers Do Well. Screen readers convert digital text to speech. They're fast, they work with nearly every platform, and they give children...
Education > Other
Charter Schools and Special Education: What Parents Need to Know
...disabilities Implement existing IEPs when a student transfers in Conduct evaluations and develop new IEPs as needed Provide related services (OT, PT, speech therapy, etc.) outlined...
Therapies > Speech
What to Expect at Your Child's First Speech Therapy Appointment
...You've been told your child needs a speech therapy evaluation, and now you're...bring? Most parents walk into a first speech therapy appointment with no framework...Before You Go: What to Bring. The speech-language pathologist (SLP) will need...and 'da' for 'dog'" rather than "Her speech is unclear." Insurance card and referral:...