eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

I expected the obvious: general content teachers, teachers who work with English language learners and students with disabilities, counselors, social workers, paraprofessionals, and other support staff. Who is needed on this team? They need introverts and extroverts.

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eSchool News

MAY 3, 2017

CCC-SLP, associate professor at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Center for Communication Enhancement and the Autism Language Program at Boston Children’s Hospital, discussed some innovative communication tips for students with autism. In “ Communication Innovations for Individuals with Autism ,” Howard C. Shane, Ph.D., Shane, Ph.D.,

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2016

Becky Oristaglio, Speech and Language Pathologist. Hearing and understanding what is being said in the classroom play a crucial role in a student’s speech and language development, reading and spelling ability, attention and concentration, and overall academic achievement. Listen and Learn.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 11, 2024

By taking a data-driven approach to individual IEP development and review, leaders can, with suitable systems, aggregate IEP data to look at ways they can better serve students with disabilities as a whole.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

Teachers can’t slow down the lesson plans for the entire class to accommodate a few struggling students, and can’t provide individualized attention to all the students who need it to stay on track. Investors and entrepreneurs, politicians, and the public-at-large all finally started paying attention.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

“A disability may be the result of combinations of impairments and environmental barriers , such as attitudinal barriers, inaccessible information, an inaccessible built environment or other barriers that affect people’s full participation in society [i].” of Australian undergraduate students reported having a learning disability.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

“A disability may be the result of combinations of impairments and environmental barriers , such as attitudinal barriers, inaccessible information, an inaccessible built environment or other barriers that affect people’s full participation in society [i].” of Australian undergraduate students reported having a learning disability.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2020

In real life, curb cuts on sidewalks are intentionally designed for people with disabilities. Take dual-language learning as an example. It has been shown that dual-language learning leads to developmental gains for English language learners (ELLs). Instead, we need to re-center edtech on the curb-cut effect theory.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The year before the pandemic, 22% of students in the district met or exceeded Illinois’ English language arts standards, while 16% cleared that bar in math. At the beginning, we were: No, no, no, no, no,” said Marisa Mills, the president of Cicero’s teachers union and a seventh grade English language arts teacher at Unity Junior High.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

In my first-grade classroom, a third of my students were learning English as a second language. Plus, the students who struggled with attention didn’t miss out on any information since they could access the content through the voice-over, the visuals in the video, and the text in the captions. Evaluating accessibility.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are behind next-generation improvements in a range of software tools for students with sensory or learning disabilities. Amazon Polly supports SSML, which helps you create lifelike speech that will attract and hold the attention of your audience.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2020

The first image many people have of school is a circle of small children, sitting cross-legged, paying attention (or not) to an adult reading a book aloud and showing pictures to the class. Indeed, presidents and sports stars choose exactly this photo op when visiting schools. note : On Tuesday, March 31, 2020 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

Educators noted that, with the increase in expectations of students, they were also increasing the demands on parents, since most students with disabilities needed support from parents to execute remote lessons—from setting and regulating their students' schedules, to helping them access (i.e.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

In fact, the National Education Association found nearly every general classroom across the country includes at least one student with a disability. Students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder can be easily distracted, making it hard for them to finish homework and other tasks. Over the past 10 years, the number of U.S.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

We have a complex language where one letter pattern can stand for different sounds (COW and SNOW), and where similar sounds can be spelled in different ways (WAIT and WEIGHT). Second, we need to acknowledge and allow for the time it takes students to move toward fluent reading of a complex language, even when our instruction is excellent.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It gives language for the dissonance of the repeated realization of a fractured personhood and how we persistently reassemble ourselves. My department simultaneously professed concern while ignoring my needs and rights under the American Disabilities Act. It took four more years to get it fully under control.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2019

Some efforts to foster neurodiversity on campus build on programs college administrations have long bolstered, like offices for disability services. Changing language reflects this shift. Information from a presentation created by Barbara Bookman, university director of disability programs at City University of New York.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Using Wakelet, school librarians can work with librarians in their district–or even across the state or country–to draw attention to important resources in the library, offer research tips, and motivate students. Translation technologies can be included for students and parents whose native language is not English.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

At a morning session on Sunday, Kentaro Yoshifuji, CEO of Ory Lab , shared how a robot his company has developed is helping people with disabilities connect with friends, family and teachers when it’s difficult or near impossible for them to be physically present with peers. Robots don’t generally elicit warm, friendly emotions.

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Edsurge

JULY 15, 2016

While multimodal learning environments support the needs of more learners, they require special attention to ensure they are accessible to students who are hard of hearing and/or visually impaired. Supporting students with disabilities is not only an important social justice issue, it is the law. Supporting All Learners.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

As these tools become more integrated into the classroom, teachers will want to ensure that all students, including those with disabilities or language barriers, are being supported. And thirdly, we believe that there will be more urgent attention paid to professional development for K-12 educators. –Amy Gulley, M.Ed

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 8, 2025

Elevating Engagement Engagement is an important factor driving retention in online classrooms; furthermore, dynamic environments capture the attention of students, ensuring greater dedication to learning. Transcriptions ease and enable learning for many students with disabilities. Huang et al. Literacy Today (2411-7862) 41 (1): 5458.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Learning loss for chronically ill children while they are hospitalized is a topic that often doesn’t get a lot of attention. The average time students with multiple disabilities are absent from school is 28.9 days each time they are hospitalized.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 2, 2023

The Role of Assistive Technology in Promoting Inclusive Education Persons with disabilities may struggle with coordination problems, short attention spans, and limited mobility, which may or may not be obvious. Some disabilities include blindness, deafness, dyslexia, and autism. Let’s find out below.

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Cult of Pedagogy

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Over the last 10 years or so, the word “neurodivergent” has become a more common part of our everyday language. This shift in language acknowledges that everyone’s brain is different, and if we set up our schools in a way that makes room for many variations, we’ll all be better off. It’s not just ADHD.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

As these tools become more integrated into the classroom, teachers will want to ensure that all students, including those with disabilities or language barriers, are being supported. And thirdly, we believe that there will be more urgent attention paid to professional development for K-12 educators. –Amy Gulley, M.Ed

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Edsurge

JANUARY 14, 2021

The pandemic catalyzed this previously unmatched level of attention on early care and education,” LiBetti says, adding that “the potential for aspirational change to early educator preparation is possible right now.” Some strategies outlined in the report are more ripe for swift action than others, Kornack acknowledges.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 8, 2025

Elevating Engagement Engagement is an important factor driving retention in online classrooms; furthermore, dynamic environments capture the attention of students, ensuring greater dedication to learning. Transcriptions ease and enable learning for many students with disabilities. Huang et al. Literacy Today (2411-7862) 41 (1): 5458.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2020

And Emmons, who teaches English as a Second Language, messaged the parents of stragglers using the text translation app Remind. As her co-teacher led the lesson, Emmons translated instructions and information into the languages her students and their parents speak — Arabic, Portuguese and Vietnamese.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2020

And Emmons, who teaches English as a Second Language, messaged the parents of stragglers using the text translation app Remind. As her co-teacher led the lesson, Emmons translated instructions and information into the languages her students and their parents speak — Arabic, Portuguese and Vietnamese.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2020

And Emmons, who teaches English as a Second Language, messaged the parents of stragglers using the text translation app Remind. As her co-teacher led the lesson, Emmons translated instructions and information into the languages her students and their parents speak — Arabic, Portuguese and Vietnamese.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

From how to delve into the nuances of student learning and removing the heavy lift of teachers trying to figure out how to individualize instruction, to enabling someone like me to speak in seven languages so that I may express ideas or collaborate with others from around the world, AI holds endless potential.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

The launch of the artificial intelligence (AI) large language model ChatGPT was met with both enthusiasm (“Wow! Or, an English language learner who relies on an app to translate words as they write essays. This tool can write as well as humans”) and fear (“Wow…this tool can write as well as humans”).

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

The launch of the artificial intelligence (AI) large language model ChatGPT was met with both enthusiasm (“Wow! Or, an English language learner who relies on an app to translate words as they write essays. This tool can write as well as humans”) and fear (“Wow…this tool can write as well as humans”).

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 27, 2024

For example, our pre-service teachers are learning how to use AI programs, such as Mizou and Reading Coach to create lesson plans, to learn how to reach their English language learners, and how to create hands-on activities that allow students to apply what they have learned.

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Teach Hub

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Challenges are present daily in schools, and students with specific learning disabilities experience many different challenges in addition to those a general learner faces. Students that are hard of hearing struggle with communication in school as delays in language and speech can often be present. Sign Language/Nonverbal Cues.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 27, 2024

For example, our pre-service teachers are learning how to use AI programs, such as Mizou and Reading Coach to create lesson plans, to learn how to reach their English language learners, and how to create hands-on activities that allow students to apply what they have learned.

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