Intro to Assistive Technology for Students who have Physical Disabilities

Intro to Assistive Technology for Students who have Physical Disabilities

What will I learn?

• What is assistive technology (AT) .

• Advice on students using the computer well to make best use of Assistive Technology.

• About touch-typing resources for different hand functions and alternative keyboard and mouse control.

• About free adjustments that can be made to iOS, Android, Windows and Apple to suit different physical abilities

• About Dragon Naturally Speaking About free speech-to-text software in Google Docs, Microsoft Office 365 and on your phones.

• About free text-tospeech on a variety of platforms to support reading/stamina difficulties.

• How to get access to electronic learning materials and texts and to share learning materials digitally

• About a variety of alternative text input options.