Blog post #8

Adaptive technologies are increasingly helpful to learners with disabilities. For example, if a student is dyslexic they need help understanding how the phonics of a word are put together to form the basic sounds required to sound the word out. Now if a student ever has trouble understanding a word they can use a text to speech app that allows them to hear the word as it's read and can even have google dictionary sound out the word syllable by syllable. I actually will be using this technology with a dyslexic student that I am tutoring over Skype. I will be teaching her with a particularly demanding book for syllables, and phonic stresses because it contains many Spanish names that require breaking down the word syllable by syllable.

The challenges of using adaptive technology in the classroom are that these technologies often cost a fair amount due to their innovativeness. That being said there are numerous free websites that can be used to go around these costs. One that is very useful to me not even students who might be amputees or have trouble typing as fast as they can think, Speechnotes is fantastic for translating speech directly to text.