Writing Support Technology
Students with disabilities often have difficulty with all of the processes involved in writing.
Writing is a complex problem-solving activity that involves thinking, planning, and decision making, as well as the mechanics of transcription. The process of writing can be broken into various steps: prewriting, drafting, reviewing, editing, and sharing or publishing.
Spelling, grammar, organizing, long term memory, planning, and fine motor are all common problems that students run into when writing.
Writing is a complex problem-solving activity that involves thinking, planning, and decision making, as well as the mechanics of transcription. The process of writing can be broken into various steps: prewriting, drafting, reviewing, editing, and sharing or publishing.
Spelling, grammar, organizing, long term memory, planning, and fine motor are all common problems that students run into when writing.
Co:writer
Co:writer is a word perdition application that helps students with their spelling while they are typing. As a student is typing up a sentence in this application, the word prediction, will give the student options of different words that they may want use. This is great for students who don't have a high vocabulary or know how to spell long words. With Co:writer students will have the confidence to use new vocabulary that they wouldn't normally use. Other features of Co:writer are; text-to-speech, grammar support, send messages to social media, send text messages, send emails, and includes a dictionary. This is a great high tech writing support for students ages 7 and up.
To find out more information on co:writer go to
http://donjohnston.com/cowriter/#.VEB-g3TD9Ms
To find out more information on co:writer go to
http://donjohnston.com/cowriter/#.VEB-g3TD9Ms
Pencil Grip
A pencil grip is a low tech and inexpensive tool for writing . Students of all ages could benefit from this. The grip helps students with weak fine motor skills hold the pencil properly. They come in all kinds of shapes and sizes to fit the need of the student. The pencil grip is a small device that can make a big deference in a students hand writing.They also come in fun colors.
Check out this website to purchase a pencil grip:
http://www.therapro.com/Pencil-Grips-C4297.aspx
Check out this website to purchase a pencil grip:
http://www.therapro.com/Pencil-Grips-C4297.aspx
Clicker 6
Clicker 6 helps students create sentences. clicker 6 contains word prediction, text to speech, word grid and corrects grammar. this program also has picture support to help students create sentences using words with the correlating picture. Students can write a story and add pictures to the paper to be more creative. Teachers can add short phrases to help students start the writing process.
to find out more information on Clicker 6 go to:
http://www.cricksoft.com/us/products/clicker/home/writer.aspx
to find out more information on Clicker 6 go to:
http://www.cricksoft.com/us/products/clicker/home/writer.aspx