SED SE 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Monoplegia, Tetraplegia, Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

• School: Boston University
• Department: Special Education
• Course: SED SE 250
• Professor: Zachary Rossetti

Document Summary

Assistive technology devices or services (all students) Instruction in and use of braille (blind/visually impaired) Service: do people need to be trained to help the students. Assistive technology device means any item, piece of equipment, or product system, whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified, or customized, that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of a child with a disability. The term does not include a medical device that is surgically implanted, or the replacement of such device. Includes things like training, purchasing, testing out technologies, having a plan for when they break. Ex: stress ball, various types of paper (ex: raised-line papers, color-coordinated papers) Ex: calculators, talking calculators, spell checkers, talking spell checkers, text. Relatively expensive devices that contain microcomputer components for storage. Ex: computers, devices, and software and retrieval of information. Students with health care needs (and adhd) Multiple disabilities, traumatic brain injury (tbi), and deaf-blindness.