Vocabulary LessonAssistive Technology

Stacey A. Beecham

December 12, 2014

Summary

• Students will learn new vocabulary

words

• Students will work independently

and within a group setting to create

a PowerPoint teaching new words.

Target Audience

• English I-CP

• A class of 25

students.

• Clifton High

School Annex

Time Frame

• Two Weeks

• 10 words a week

Objectives

Principals of UID

Activities

• Standard

• Fundamental

• Enhanced

• Computer/Technology

Adapted Material/Activities

• PowerPoint with

narration

• Printout of PowerPoint

• Choice to work in

group or independently

Accommodations for Autism

• Patterns

• Clear Instructions

• Stability in lesson

• Repetition

Accommodations for Visual Disabilites

• JAWS program

• Narrated version of my PowerPoint

on Moodle

• Textual description of pictures in

PowerPoint

Accommodations for Behavioral Disabilites

• Freedom to work in group or

independently

• Format for conversation within group

• Choice to act out definitions

References

• Sousa, David A. How the Special

Needs Brain Works. Thousand Oaks,

CA: Corwin Press, Inc., 2001.

• http://www.lighthouse.org/

accessibility/design/web/

• http://www.cast.org/udl/index.html