E-ssential Guide: A Parent's Guide to Assistive Technology
Our Assistive Technology (AT) Guide provides an overview of current technologies to help parents select tools for their children with learning problems.
This guide explains how assistive technology (AT) can help kids with learning disabilities, and it walks you through the process of selecting technology tools that will be most beneficial for your child. These articles have been developed in collaboration with Marshall Raskind, Ph.D., an expert on the topic of assistive technology.
Here's what you'll find between the covers of this guide:
- An overview of assistive technology - what it is and how it can help kids with learning disabilities bypass areas of difficulty.
- A summary of how assistive technology tools address various types of learning disabilities: listening, math, memory, organization, reading, and writing.
- An article which describes a research-based method for finding the right fit between a child's needs, the tasks she struggles with, the settings where she will use technology, and the AT tool itself.
- A practical worksheet to guide you through the steps to matching AT tools to a child's individual needs and strengths.
- Consumer tips for evaluating assistive technology products.
Recommended Resources:
- Books, articles, and websites
Download your E-ssential Guide to Assistive Technology (21 pages), print, and go! (Note: You need the Adobe Reader/Acrobat Reader software in order to download the files.)
