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**Watching and Wondering: **
====I really enjoy working with special needs students, so when I started exploring topics online I wanted something geared towards special education. I started seeing a lot of information on assistive technology and thought I would explore that topic more. I have seen in many classrooms students struggling with reading, writing, note taking and more. I want to explore the online resources that can aid theses students in their learning. Students fall behind in their independent reading all too often, if more students had the availability to some of these tools they can successfully keep up in their classes. ====

BG...Everything on your page looks great, I would suggest that maybe you add a video or two to make it even better
[|http://youtu.be/yBnBWlbbvKY] This is a youtube video on why students resist to assistive technology...maybe you can incorporate this into your wiki, and talk about the reasons for this and how that could play a part in their stuggling with reading, writing or note taking.

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====This is an assistive reading tool. Schools/teachers/parents are able to purchase this assistive reading tool. Student can download the book to the program, once downloaded you program will read the book aloud and the student is able to follow along. This program can be benefit struggling readers, english language learners, as well as students with physical challenges. ====

====This website talks about assistive technology for students with mild disabilities. It goes on to talk about what AT are, and how they can be implemented in the classroom. It also talks about all the different subject/problem areas AT can be used. ====

====The Parrot Voice Mate is a voice recognition tool that allows visually impaired students to easily store and retrieve important information. Homework or class notes can be quickly entered and retrieved using voice commands. The Voice Mate reads all functions verbally making it easy for students and teachers to learn and use. ====

====This is a link to LiveScribe Smart Pen. The resource helps students take notes and record lectures. This smartpen lets you capture words, scribbles and diagrams and syncs everything to what is said. ====

This website talks about the ways to effectively match students with the correct assistive technology tool.
[] ====This is the homepage for all different links for helpful tools for all different subjects. Once you click on the link for writing, reading, listening, organizing, or memorizing it will take you to a list of assistive tools for that subject, to help students in and out of the classroom.====

**Wiggling and Weaving: **
====Technology resources for students with special needs are becoming more and more common. In the schools you will find numerous amounts of different assistive technology and web based programs that are aiding students in being successful. While exploring the many different tools I started to see that the majority of the programs are geared towards reading and writing. ====

====I also continued to notice article after article stressing the importance of choosing the correct piece technology for that students specific needs. Since many of the assistive technology equipment and software is expensive teachers and administrators should take the time and really match a student with the software that will benefit them the most. ====