Reflective Response to Technology with Special Education Students

The importance of technology in the area of special education cannot be underestimated. Through technology general education curriculum can be more easily adapted for students with learning difficulties. For the teacher, technology allows for a change in the format of assignments that have been designed for general education students, no longer is it necessary to cut and paste when text and spacing can be altered all in one setting. Text can be enlarged;, fonts can be changed to make text more readable for the struggling learners. Beyond the basic ext design, most standard computers available in the general education classroom are equipped with magnification programs as well as read aloud, write aloud, and talking capacities. Outside of the standard applications, there are a wide variety of adaptive curriculum's available; these have been professionally developed by text book companies as companion instructional material for general curriculum. These adaptive programs are especially designed with the special education student in mind and some are even designed as interactive, self-graduating programs.