Assistive Technologies to Support with Dyslexia by Erik Saldana

Text to World Connections

eriksaldana29 — 2025-06-06 19:04:24 UTC

This article relates to the broader world through the fact that not everyone with dyslexia knows or understands that they have it. Dyslexia a high amount of times go undiagnosed due to not fully understanding the disability and to students wanting to blend in with there peers due to a stigma of having to use AT (Dawson, 2019). This article brings to light important information that will lead to inclusion, and equatble, cultrually responsive practices because it discusses what kind of disability Dyslexia is and how we can better understand students with such disabilities. It further shows how this technology can be utilized by students without disabliites because there isn't one norm function to how people understand the world around them. That everyone can have an individualized method to learning that suits them and incorpartiting such technologies to the whole class will take away the stigma of learning in different matters and bring students as peers together in a proactive and safe learning environment.

Text to Text Connections

eriksaldana29 — 2025-06-06 19:04:53 UTC

This article connects to our textbook by its influence on AT utilizing UDLs and IEPs targeted towards students with Dyslexia. They show in the article how a UDL can be in place by creating an environment that allows the students to keep up with their peers through AT. By having access to computers and softwares that aid in the learning they are creating an access in their environment to give these students an ambitous education. They futher this by being inclusive with allowing and recommending other students to utilize this technology, which in turns aids all students to a path of better understanding of their peers but the material they are learning as well. One example in Exceptional Lives would be Cristians story as it relates to AT. Cristian needed his hearing implants in order to be able to hear speech and allow him to practice his speaking skills (Turnbull, 2024). As it wouldn't be required to allow him to understand english and how to read and write it would allow him another source of which he could communicate with others and gave him the chance to be able to learn spanish which his family prodominetly spoke. The use of AT like the ones Cristian has can also allow for students to be social and for their peers to understand the culture of these students.

Text to Self Connections

eriksaldana29 — 2025-06-06 19:06:03 UTC

This article connected with me through the understaning of AT and using such methods to allow all students to seek out learning and studying plans that better suit their form of intellect. My few on students hasn't changed much from before as I grew up around such foward thinking but it has opened my eyes to the bigger world that is students with disabilities and the vast amounts of methods through creativity that can better aid these students. This was the format I used myself when I was a tutor in highschool for chemistry. Like everyone else tends to favor better in one subject over another, I found chemistry to be one of those things that just made sense to me, maybe because like math it involved equations and numbers or because of my love of science it just spoke to me in a way that couldn't be understood. With that in mind I elected to tutor other students in the class but found myself at an impase with some students as simple explaining it the way I understood it would not work for everyone. There is where I discovered that as individuals we also have personal methods and functions of understanding and it lead me to developing methods and comparisions to better aid teaching my peers what they fell behind in. I can be inclusive and culturally responsive by continueing this path and creating new formats of teaching and study lessons for subjects like chemistry or my career in astronomy. This way I can invite others into how beautiful our universe and truly allow them to comprehend what the universe holds in a way that motivates them and truly fits how they need to learn.

Key Practices

eriksaldana29 — 2025-06-06 19:06:22 UTC

Two Key Practices recommended by this article are Text-to-Speech functions and Word Prediction features on computers (Dawson, 2019). Text-to-Speech functions are on of the few options that is highly talked about as it is a strong feature that allows students to comprehend the material they are learning. With Dyslexia as it affects only how they read and write Text-to-Speech goes around this by as students are stilll capable of understanding language and what they are learning if it spoken. The options around this are in surplus as well as extensions and apps are used to allow students to use this feature with online articels and allow them to scan or copy other sources into their computer to utilize this function.

Word Prediction is a function or app within computer and tablets using a software that analyses the users writing and then generates a list of words that or close to the true word or meaning the users intended. This feature greatly allows students with Dyslexia to write better and more efficiently as it does not halter their pace or cause them to hit a stopping point allowing a free flow form of writing giving them opportunities to write more and more efficiently.

Summary

eriksaldana29 — 2025-06-06 19:07:18 UTC

In the Article Assitive technologies to Support with Dyslexia they discuss some prime examples of Assitive technology (AT) and how they aid students in their reading and writing skills. The article states first that students with dyslexia can have a hard time reading and writing as well as their peers due to what dyslexia does. It isnt reading words backwords but the inability to decode words as they read them and writing them in a more phonetical sense that properly aligns with how their brain understands the word to be spelt. Even with this students tend to show strong signs of great comprehension on the material even at a higher level than the grade their in but fall behind because of this reading disability. When students with Dyslexia write they tend to use less robust vocabulary and write less as they have a difficult time rememebering how to spell the word correctly and taking frequent pauses in their writing because of this (Dawson, 2019). The ways students and teachers are able to combat this is with AT. Some prime examples used in this article are Speech-to-text functions with use for online articles as well allowing student to comprehend the material and a word prediction similar to autocorrect features that can be personalized to the student so it predicts what the student is actually saying to allow them a more freeflow and fluent way of writing. Without proper planning and the available AT learning for students with Dyslexia can be frustating and unsuccesfull, but with the ever growing development of strategies within their IEP and with AT students truly can bear fruit and exceed in their education.

Intro

eriksaldana29 — 2025-06-06 19:07:27 UTC

Hello my name is Erik Saldana and in this padlet I will layout the assistive technologies developed for Dyslexia and how they are of help.

References

eriksaldana29 — 2025-06-06 19:08:30 UTC

Dawson, K., Antonenko, P., Lane, H., & Zhu, J. (2019). Assistive technologies to support students with Dyslexia. Links to an external site.Teaching Exceptional Children, 51(3), 226–239. https://doi.org/10.1177/0040059918794027

Turnbull, A. P., Wehmeyer, M. L., Shogren, K. A., Burke, M. M., & Turnbull, H. R. (2024). Exceptional lives: Practice, progress, & dignity in today’s schools (10th ed.). Pearson.

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