After learning about how the iPad can be used to help certain students with disabilities, I researched the perspectives of parents, children, and teachers when it came to using the iPad as an assisted technology device for communication.
Through research I have learned that the perspectives of
parents, children, and teachers are very similar. After watching the CBS News video, “Communicating
on the iPad,” it states how the parents of autistic children are in love with
the iPad, and how it allows their children to communicate their wants and needs
with them. It “unlocks the isolation” of the children, and has allowed them to
grow with communication skills, and social skills. It “opens windows” for their
child that they didn’t have before.
From a child’s perspective, iPads have allowed them to express
themselves in a different way. It gives them more independence. It has made
communicating easier for them, and makes it more fun for them to learn.
Lastly, as for the teacher’s perspective on the use of iPads
for communication is, it is a great device for students who need those
accommodations. It has also given teachers a new means of assessing the students’
cognitive skills that they may not have known the student had before.
Communication with an iPad is brilliant! Technology is becoming part of everyday classrooms and the use of an iPad, I feel, can only help students. By using the iPad, learning and communicating can be fun and not a chore.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Mia posted, and the great thing about the iPad is that it doesn't look an AT device that usually would make the student standout in a typical classroom setting. If anything students are now "cool" because they get to use the iPad when everyone else in the room wishes they could use it!
ReplyDeleteI agree iPads can be extremely useful in the classroom. They have opened up the world to the students and allowed them to learn more than ever before.
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