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ADA 25 Years!!

= Individuals with Disabilities Using Technology in the Community =

1. Visit AssistiveWare web site
====AssistiveWare specializes in software that provides full access to Mac OS X for students with physical, speech, languages and vision impairments. With the AssistiveWare software a student with a disability can fully participate in school activities, whether it involves creating a video in iMovie or using the standard educational software all the other kids use. (There are wonderful communication/Proloquo2go videos. For this exploration - focus on the videos further down the page that involve adults and students with more physical disabilities.)====

[|Assistiveware Video Case Studies]
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**Michael Phillips ** Interact with video in Educanon: [] media type="custom" key="27753051"

2. Read the articles:

 * Disabled Bodies, Able Minds: Giving Voice, Movement, and Independence to the Physically Challenged
 * [|http://www.edutopia.org/assistivetechnolog]
 * Great Advances Being Made in Assistive Technology

3) Watch the video: [|Assistive Technology: Enabling Dreams]
4) It is the 25th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Find out about ADA here: [|https://share.america.gov/crawling-up-steps-demand-their-rights/] []

After you complete these steps, please complete the related discussion post on Edmodo.
Prompt: > For this discussion, please share a story about an experience that you have had when assistive technology played a role in helping a learner with a disability to fully participate and/or integrate into a classroom or community activity. For those of you who do not directly work with learners who benefit from assistive technology, there are always stories about those you have seen or met online or have read about. Share!!! If you can't think of a personal story or a story that you have seen or read, you can use case studies that you have already met in the videos to discuss how AT helped them to participate in everyday classroom or community activities Rubric:
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