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. These are exciting times in the world of assistive learning technology. It can be a challenge to meet those expectations.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The current technology is web-based, but his grandfather’s goal has survived the decades: increase students’ ease and comfort with reading—something that remains elusive to a shockingly large part of the population. these reading skills don't correlate with intelligence, and reading inefficiently isn't a learning disability.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

students enrolled in special education programs rose 30 percent. In fact, the National Education Association found nearly every general classroom across the country includes at least one student with a disability. Brian is the head of school growth at OverDrive Education. Over the past 10 years, the number of U.S.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2022

I’m a special education teacher serving students in a self-contained class, and all of my students have moderate to severe learning disabilities including ADHD, intellectual disabilities, emotional disabilities, specific learning disabilities and autism spectrum disorder.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 8, 2023

From the Ask a Tech Teacher crew, here’s a topical article on how to use AI in your education journey: The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Education Technological innovation is now casting its shadows over the education sector as well, making learning experiences better than ever before.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Last month, California joined the list of 40 other states that have legislation requiring dyslexia screenings in early education. But of these states, only 30 legally require an intervention for students with this extremely common learning disability.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2020

But after doing poorly on a math placement exam in middle school, he was placed in a math class for students with learning disabilities. Three years later, NewSchools Venture Fund, a nonprofit education philanthropy, awarded $15 million in its grant challenge for middle- and high-school math software developers.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2019

When the report came back with the words “learning disability,” I was filled with so much shame. The report said that my intelligence is actually very high but that the gap between my intelligence and my abilities is wide enough that I must have some sort of learning disability. My whole body shut down.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

That means psychological evaluations, finding out whether there’s an undiagnosed learning disability that’s making school acutely uncomfortable for the student, and other measures such as exposure therapy, she says. Instead, Demsky calls for schools to recognize when refusal is occurring, and to follow evidence-based paths.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

I would argue that audiobooks are most definitely reading, offering rigor of a different sort and that these types of materials not only provide a path to story and information for kids who have visual impairments, dyslexia diagnoses or learning disabilities, but that they are powerful learning tools for all of us.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2021

Through research and evaluation, psychologists in the 1970s and ’80s sought to develop a new framework to stop over-identifying students as disabled. Their goals were to: Identify students who needed special education services more accurately. A key challenge facing RTI implementation is there is no guide or handbook.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

by law , “the number of students with disabilities in an Integrated Co-Teaching class may not exceed 40% of the class with a maximum of 12 students with disabilities.” However, in most states. That means the makeup of an inclusion class is required to have at least 60% of students without IEPs.

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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. Information from a presentation created by Barbara Bookman, university director of disability programs at City University of New York. That’s the piece that’s lacking as far as support.”

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2017

A small but growing library of augmented reality books, consisting of 25 children’s titles, is part of a research partnership between UTSA Libraries and the College of Education and Human Development (COEHD). Ilna Colemere, an instructional technology coordinator for COEHD, is heading up the project. Ilna Colemere.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2020

Tony Wan, Managing Editor Access and Equity How can we accommodate students who have learning disabilities in online instruction and practice universal design principles? During these first few days of schools moving online, educators are adjusting to a new—and likely chaotic—environment. Stay safe, sane and sanitary, everyone.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2024

School principal Abraham agrees: “Having the students have the ability to really dive deep within that text and read the text multiple times is so important for comprehension, especially with our students that are English language learners or that might have a learning disability. [It

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2024

This posed major challenges to her education: Esmeralda said that, instead of receiving proper language instruction, she was placed in classes meant to address learning disabilities. Cruz’s experience is not unique, according to Maria Coady, professor of multilingual education at North Carolina State University.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2019

Learning disabilities, academic performance, and vision problems could necessitate students being placed in the front of the classroom to ensure better learning and higher engagement. If something doesn’t work, then the teacher can adjust until an arrangement sticks.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2019

There’s still a great deal of stigma around disabilities—learning-related, or otherwise. Bonni Stachoviak There’s still a great deal of stigma around disabilities—learning-related, or otherwise. She is too concerned that as soon as the professor becomes aware of her situation that she will be defined by her disability.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2019

It recently released a survey of 1,880 adults that seeks to understand how teachers, parents and the public view learner variability, students’ ability to reach high levels of academic achievement, and the use of education technology.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

I’m a ninth grade English teacher at Collier and all of my students are classified with a disability and have an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) that qualifies them for special education services. Our motto: “Where small miracles happen everyday.” So, What’s Alternative About Our School?

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2018

The tools span everything from music to time-saving shortcuts and supports for struggling students or those with learning disabilities. Check out these educators’ top picks or explore a list of attendee favorites here. Looking for a way to introduce music to young learners?

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2017

Since studies have shown that people who have a dyslexic parent are more likely to have dyslexia, she says, perhaps schools should ask students to report family history of any learning disabilities at the start of their education. Why don’t we start monitoring them sooner, rather than waiting for them to start to fail?”

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2017

There were complications in my birth, and so they've kind of always known, but it wasn't formally a learning disability until about 4th or 5th grade. So, I think having these learning disabilities has played a tremendous part in my experiences. What pieces of technology do you feel really changed the game for you?

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

Such features are in several commercial products, as well as in free AI tools — just last month, the nonprofit Khan Academy announced that it would make its AI tools for teachers free to all educators. On a positive note, such tools could greatly assist students with learning disabilities.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2020

Ahead of a series of rapid-fire pitches by 11 individuals who are seeking to solve major problems in the field—including issues of literacy, early childhood assessment, learning disability detection and online teacher training—a panel of ACF leadership explored what “innovation” means in the context of early childhood development.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And universal assessments that test multilingual students in English can provide inaccurate information that teachers use to guide their practice or can wrongly indicate learning disabilities.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2019

In the cases in the scandal, the students who cheated falsely claimed they had a learning disability, which let them take the test at a different school than they usually attend, an accomodation which made it easier for them to cheat.] There are a whole series of initiatives. For this specific example, we’re taking action. [In

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2018

As it turned out, Kevin was mostly non-verbal with emotional and learning disabilities. He was also an apathetic student who lacked the ability and desire to self-start or persist with educational tasks. You must be Kevin,” I said with a smile. Kevin didn’t look at me.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2019

We're talking about children with specific learning disabilities and diverse learners, ethnic and racial minorities, children who are serviced in therapeutic settings, alternative environments, correctional facilities.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2018

Amanda Lotz knows all too well how difficult it can be to engage middle school students in life sciences, especially those with emotional disorders, behavioral issues, or learning disabilities. Given the chance to be directly responsible for their own learning, however, her students displayed an inspiring will to achieve. “It

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2018

When I was in middle school, I was diagnosed with a learning disability, so the “typical” school experience was always a challenge for me. As a teacher of world language, I want my students to realize that you don’t have to learn Spanish by studying verb conjugations out of a textbook every day.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Department of Education shows black students are suspended nearly three times (16 percent) the rate of white students (5 percent). In addition, students with learning disabilities are more than twice as likely to be suspended (13 percent) compared with students without disabilities (6 percent).

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2023

I've worked with students who have autism, behavioral challenges, learning disabilities and more — and every time a student is in crisis, I'm by their side. Over the course of each year, I develop strong relationships with the students I serve, especially with the one I'm assigned to.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2019

You can learn the way your teacher teaches you. But if you have maybe a learning disability, you don't speak English as well as others or your achievement has not been the same, arts gives these children multiple ways to express what they know. How do teachers respond to this?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Holzweiss , a high school educational technology enrichment specialist librarian, shared her tips to help school librarians engage with students, support teachers , and make their school libraries dynamic and welcoming learning spaces. During an ISTELive session , Kristina A.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2017

What’s more, there’s scant evidence that neurofeedback can be used to treat learning disabilities, say scientists. But using EEG data to parse what a student is actually paying attention to or using neurofeedback to improve attention is more difficult to confirm.

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