Assistive Technology In Education

Assistive technology (AT) continuously helping students to overcome their struggles. Also, assistive technology helps the students with disabilities to learn skills that are related to achieving their academic and life success. Students may be able to use an AT quite easier where writing on a paper and participating in class might be a greater struggle for them. Through this course, I have learned that AT is an important tool for students with disabilities because it is also used to adapt with their environment and nurture their individual strengths. It is also taught in this course that, AT creates an opportunity for exceptional students to learn and hope was given to enable the student’s courage to take a step in achieving their goals in life. In class, we discussed that AT extends the learning through support programs that is accommodated for student needs.
That said, throughout the entire tour, my knowledge about AT has expanded because they created a repetition of the topic and it is a good practice for us educational assistant to recall what we know. Both class discussion and the presentation instructed and deepened our learning experiences in various ways. As an educational assistant, it is important that we familiarize ourselves to different AT devices and be able to know how does it work and the proper assessment of the tools to the students. I have learned a lot through this tour. The experience with using the AT really helps us educational assistants to see what it is in real situation. This experience extended my knowledge about what assistive technology is; whether it is in the book or a real one. Assistive technology is adding a sense of knowledge to both students and