Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Tech Tools That Address Visual-Spatial or Motor Control Difficulties




Continuing our conversation regarding useful educational apps, I found myself short shrifting students whose learning disabilities have to do with physical limitations as opposed to mental ones. I have had little experience working with these kinds of students. Thankfully our textbook gives us a good look at the educational apps available to these students. Among them:
  • MathPad (Talking math worksheet program)
  • MathPad Plus (Extends to fractions and decimals)

  • Virtual Pencil Arithmetic (For students who are "pencil impaired")

  • Virtual Pencil Algebra (Extends to algebraic equations)

  • Number Navigator (Simple "math processor" with customizable colors, fonts, and font sizes)

  • Microsoft Word's Equation Editor (For students with good mouse control but difficulty with handwriting)

  • Math Type (For students in advanced math classes)

  • Scientific Notebook (For solving equations)

  • Meander's Annotator (For handwriting problems in geometry)  
Here's a great example of Virtual Pencil at work!



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