Literacy, AT, & Students with Significant Disabilities
Earlier this year, we shared some articles about supporting students who use AAC in general education settings. Although we don’t have data to back this up, our estimation is that most children who use AAC are not in inclusive classrooms. Nonetheless, they all learn literacy skills. In this post, we share an article about literacy learning in students with significant disabilities by Karen Erikson, Penny Hatch, and Sally Clendon. We love the way that it addresses a comprehensive approach to learning to read and write and how AT can be used to support the learning process.
You can access that article here.
Erikson, K., Hatch, P., & Clendon, S. (2010). Literacy, assistive technology, and students with significant disabilities. Focus on Exceptional Children, 42,5, 1-17.
Filed under: PrAACtical Thinking
Tagged With: article, AT, Clendon, Erickson, Hatch, literacy, reading, writing
This post was written by Carole Zangari
5 Comments
Wow!!!
Such a wonderful article and so many different ideas running through my mind right now. Thank you so much for linking to this article…do you have permission to share this article widely? I would love to link to it from a blog post.
Appreciate all the wonderful work you do. Awesome.
Tim
Thanks for taking the time to comment, Tim. It really is a great article isn’t it? I don’t have the authority to give permission for wider dissemination – sorry about that! We really appreciate the kind words about our work. I have to believe that the combined efforts of everyone out there who is advocating for these kids will pay off little by little.
Hi, there is no possibility to download the article. Where is this article otherwise available?
Best,
Igor
Igor, that post is a few years old and it seems like they reorganized that site. Here is an alternate link to the article: http://my-ecoach.com/online/resources/3916/Literacy,_Assistive_Technology_and_Students_with_Disabilities.pdf
Hi Carole, thank you very much for this great article.
Best from Germany
Igor