Instructional and Assistive Technology in Special Education

Question 2

Visual supports in this context refers to technologies to help students who are blink or having vision challenges.

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What is the purpose of a Visual Timer app?  Also, provide an example of how a teacher or parent could use it. 

You are recommending to a parent of one of your students with autism to use one of the Activity Apps such as iPrompts, Choiceworks or First-Then.  What would you say to them about how to create it and how it works. 

Briefly describe in a bulleted fashion two general areas problem behaviors of students with autism. 

Question 6

Identify one advantage of premade visual supports and one advantage of teacher made visual supports

What is an activity schedule and what purpose does it serve for many students with autism and other disorders

Question 8

What are social stories and why are they used? Also, what is the benefit of using social stories as a form of instruction? 

Question 9

What is a picture schedule and what purpose does it serve for many students with autism and other disorders

Question 10

Describe the app Behavior Tracker Pro and provide an example of how a parent or teacher could use it. 

Watch one of the Social Stories Videos in your module (Videos 3, 4 or 5 under the Social Skills section of your course modules).  then describe what happens in the video and what you thought of it. 

Watch Video #8 in the module, Choiceworks and provide a brief summary of how it works

Watch one of the Video Modeling videos in your module (Videos 1,2 or 3 under the video modeling section of your course modules).  then describe what happens in the video and what you thought of it.