Project ACCESS:

Accessing Curriculum Content for Special Education Students

Resources

Assistive Technology Toolkit

Assistive Technology Tutorials

Content Area Literacy Strategies
and Potential Assistive Technology Adaptations

Universal Design for Learning: Center for Applied Special Technology

Alternative Keyboards

• AlphaSmart 3000 is a portable keyboard/word processor that can print directly to a printer or download to a computer for more sophisticated word processing.
• IntelliKeys is a membrane keyboard that comes with a series of overlays that can be changed to alphabetical, the standard QWERTY, or others as needed
• QuickPad is a portable keyboard/word processor.
  

Math Resources

• Intellimathics – an interactive problem-solving tool with onscreen manipulatives.
  • More information about Intellimathics
• MathPad® - an electronic number processor for students who have difficulty doing math with pencil and paper.
• MathPad™ Plus: Fractions and Decimals - an upper elementary level
  electronic number processor with graphic manipulation

Reading Resources

• CAST eReader - reads text from EText
• Graphic organization software - Why use it?
  • Kidspiration - graphic organizer for K-5
  • Inspiration - graphic organizer for 6-12
• IntelliPics Studio - a multimedia tool for young authors
• Kurzweil 3000 - scanning/text reading/note-taking devide
• textHelp Screen Reader - reads whatever is on the computer screen
• Sources for ETexts

Writing Resources

• Background Information on writing disabilities
• Alternative Keyboards - can help resolve a graphomotor disability, as well as help students with ADHD stay focused
• Graphic organization software - Why use it?
  • Kidspiration - graphic organizer for K-5
  • Inspiration - graphic organizer for 6-1
• CoWriter - word prediction software
• Dragon Naturally Speaking - voice-to-text (dictation) software
• IntelliTalk III - innovative word processor with graphics, text and speech
• Write OutLoud - a "talking" word processor reads by word or sentence as student writes
  

Tennessee Curriculum Standards

• Mathematics: Curriculum Standards | Kindergarten | First Grade | Second Grade | Third Grade | Fourth and Fifth Grade | Sixth through Eighth Grade
• English/Language Arts: Curriculum Standards | Kindergarten | First Grade | Second Grade | Third Grade | Fourth Grade | Fifth Grade | Sixth Grade | Seventh Grade | Eighth Grade
  

Content Area Reading Strategies

• Content area reading strategies thumbnails

Virginia Curriculum Standards

• Mathematics:Curriculum Standards | Kindergarten | First Grade | Second Grade | Third Grade | Fourth Grade | Fifth Grade |Sixth Grade | Seventh Grade | Eighth Grade
• English/Language Arts: Curriculum Standards | Kindergarten | First Grade | Second Grade | Third Grade | Fourth Grade | Fifth Grade | Sixth Grade | Seventh Grade | Eighth Grade
  

Other Resources

Closing the Gap

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