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Braille Attack Plan
The Braille Attack Plan is designed to assist the student's IEP team in implementing assistive technology and assistive technology services for a visually impaired student in middle school. The plan includes traditional assistive technology in the form of Braille print, as well as more current technology, such as text-to-speech and speech-to-text programs, cell phone applications, and screen reader programs.
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| Braille printers | vacavreb | ||||||
| Direct TV Broadband Options for Students with Disabilities | PLCweb | ||||||
| Screen Reader: Text to Speech/Audio | naroypop13 | ||||||
| Braille translators | scrap32479 | ||||||
| Speech to Text Recognition | R1z3up | ||||||
| Funding | hittwf | ||||||
| Qwerty Keyboarding/Word Processing | june2008 | ||||||
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Basic Student Profile The student is a rising eighth grader who reads on a 4th grade level. All of his academics are behind, largely due to a lack of competent technology and adequate instructional material. He carries a Perkins Brailler from class to class which is large, noisy, and slow. He produces documents on yellow folders, on which the teacher handwrites translation. Documents are filed in cardbard boxes, causing a large amount of sapce to be used in work storage alone. Due to the technological difficulty of instructing him and having him produce work, teaching him is amazingly slow and arduous. A 30 minute test can frequently take 2 to 3 class periods. For this reason, several of his core classes are conducted in a 1-on-1 setting, which has its own social impact. His teacher hand makes tactile learning materials at her own expense, often spending hours on weekends making maps or diagrams with tactile materials. The school system provides him with his own teacher, an adaptive PE teacher, a Braille teacher, and a visual impairment specialist. All but his teacher are outsource contracted, making education for this child very costly. He was the victim of a series of strokes as a baby, causing a problem in brain function that not only left him blind but also caused learning difficulties. He is socially normal, albeit somewhat stunted socially and a bit immature. He has the ability to learn similar to an LD child. His learning problems prohibited his admission to the VA School for Deaf and Blind, and the lack of updated technology has challenged the teachers assigned to him to have a great deal of patience and creativity. My interest is in finding affordable technology to assist the educational process for this child. The current rate at which he can be educated is not effective, thereby slowing our ability to teach him. I am convinced that there are affordable technological options, I would just like to find them. More In-Depth Student Profile with Goals and Objectives Summary Recommendations/steps: This is where the turbo group members can put their recommendations (found in the technology tools assignment) in a couple of sentences.
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Sources of Information:
National Federation of the Blind
Virginia Department for the Blind and Visually Handicapped
American Federation for the Blind
Sightconnection.com - Products for the visually impaired
The Association of Blind Citizens
Questions:
Are there advantages to using a braille writer rather than a qwerty keyboard? It appears there are no significant advantages to using a braille writer. The qwerty keyboard offers several advantages especially the compatibility with standard keyboards.
What are the best processes and tools for learning the qwerty keyboard if you are blind? A Braille Keyboard is a qwerty keyboard with the corresponding Braille letters made into each key. Talking Typing Teacher is a keyboarding program designed for visually impaired students. It is completly oral with two different voices to make it easier to follow along with the instructions.
What is the best setup vis-a-vis printing braile? The Imprint Spot Dock by Tiger Inc.
What is the best setup for qwerty english language word processing?
What is the best electronic organizer for the blind? The Dragon "Naturally Speaking" software interfaces with Microsoft Outlook which has an entire organizational system including calendar, contacts, etc.
Does "Talking Typing Teacher" have enough auditory prompts for a person who is blind to use? Yes.
Our best methodology to learn qwerty keyboarding? Talking Typing Teacher allows the student to explore the keyboard before starting a lesson. It explains orally where the student's fingers should be by row and what letter each finger should type. The lessons are premade but the teacher can change the lessons to meet the need of the student. Using the Braille keyboard with this program can help the student to locate and remember where the keys are. Later he can use a standard qwerty keyboard to prove mastery of the keys.
Student Needs:
Need computers that run all this for both teacher and student. The student and teacher could take advantage of Dell special offers to educators. See Dell, The Dell Inspiron 15 is currently offered at $528 for educators/students. Cost for 2 Laptop computers = $1,056
Needs broadband access at home.
Needs an ipod Nano(4th generation). Available retail of $149.99 through Apple. Apple offers vocal menus especially designed for the visually impaired.
Purchases and Costs:
- Purchase Two (2) Dell Inspiron 15 Laptop computers @ $528.00 $1056.00
- Purchase external speakers for 1 computer $ 53.39
- Purchase “teacher” subscription to “Spoken Text” text-to-speech service at a cost of $ 89.99. Establish podcast site and email address for my library.
- Purchase iPod Nano (4th generation) $149.99
- Subscribe to iTunes8
- Purchasee Braille keyboard cover (training system) by Hooleon. $64.96
- Purchase and install software “Talking Typing Teacher” by Marvelsoft $104.95
- Purchase and install software “Braille Translator Suite” by Tiger $295.00
- Purchase Braille Printer “Imprint Spot Dock” by Tiger $5,000.00
- Purchase and install software “Dragon Naturally Speaking” by Nuance $199.99
Total Cost of Purchases approximately: $7,015
Contributors to this page: R1z3up
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naroypop13
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scrap32479
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PLCweb
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vacavreb
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Page last modified on Wednesday, August 12 2009 by R1z3up. (Version 38)
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