Module 9.

1 Assignment: Special Needs/Assistive Technology

Word and Picture cards
This is a great tool to help students with disabilities. It is an easy and fun way to have the
students remember what items are called and what they look like. The words and picture cards
can be used for anything the teacher is wanting to teach to their students. This tactic also allows
the students multiple attempts to match the correct word to the correct picture so the pressure of
them not getting it right goes down to 0 because they will start to realize that when they match
cards there is only a certain number left that they could match together. This also makes the
students more familiar with not only what the item looks like but what it is called. I have done
this in my classes before and the students have always loved doing it! In my opinion there is no
negative to an assignment that consists of these. As the teacher you can do this on paper or even
on the computer or smart board. This kind of assignment can be done individually, or in partners,
or as a whole class. This will be very helpful for the kids because these are items that can used
everyday and when they are not in class and with their friends and/or family they will be more
comfortable addressing these items and it will make them have confidences outside of the
classroom because they already know what each of these items are.

Telling Time
This printable stood out to me because I struggled a lot with reading clocks and telling
time while I was growing up. I still even have a hard time now that I am older. This is a great and
helpful way to have students with disabilities be able to read a clock because they will see clocks
everywhere in their life and it is an important and valuable strength to have. I like this one print
out because the min. hand is always on the fifteen of the clocks. And the hour hard is changing. It
will make the students more comfortable with reading clocks. Students with disabilities get
overwhelmed and overstimulated very easily and seeing a clock and not knowing what it means
can be very difficult and cause the overstimulation. If I introduce this method of how to read a
clock my students will not be afraid or scared to read a clock! You start at one part (hour hand) of
the clock and practice it until they get that one part down with no hesitation and then you apply
the second part (min. hand) They need to know that the minute hand is the hand that they will
notice the most because it moves around a lock way more than the hour hand. This will start out
as a group activity and then go to partners and then to individuals. This assignment will make my
student more familiar and more confident in their everyday lives in and out of the classroom.

SEN Teacher : Telling Time ⋆ Printable Worksheet

SEN Teacher : Word & Picture Cards ⋆ Printable Cards