TLD Project at a Glance
The 2005-2007 Technology for Learning Disabilities project was funded through the Washington State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction by the federal Enhancing Education Through Technology Grant (EETT). Implementation and funding were administered through the Special Education Technology Center (SETC) at Central Washington University (with Kittitas School District acting as the fiscal agent).
The Technology for Learning Disabilities project provided teachers with technology to use with students in grades 6 through 12 who have learning disabilities. Prior evaluations conducted by RMC Research have shown this approach to be effective in terms of helping learning disabled students improve their academic skills. The Technology for Learning Disabilities project identified the following goals and objectives:
- Goal 1: To provide teachers with support, resources, and strategies to improve the writing (Years 1 and 2) and math (Year 2) skills of learning disabled students through the use of technology.
- Goal 2: To provide teachers with support, resources, and strategies to improve students' attitude toward writing (Years 1 and 2) and math (Year 2).
- Objective 1: The Technology for Learning Disabilities project will provide teachers with hardware and software for their classrooms.
- Objective 2: SETC will provide teachers with professional development that shows teachers how to use the hardware and software in their classrooms.
- Objective 3: Teachers will fully integrate the use of technology in their classroom by using the hardware (i.e., teacher laptop or desktop computer, multimedia projector with document camera, and the ACTIVboard) in their teaching a minimum of 3 times a week.
- Objective 4: Teachers will fully integrate the use of technology in their classroom by ensuring students use the assistive softwares Texthelp Read&Write GOLD 2 times a week and FASTT Math 3 times a week and conduct a Math Trail project a minimum of 2 times during the school year.
- Objective 1: The Technology for Learning Disabilities project will provide teachers with hardware and software for their classrooms.
- Goal 3: To inspire other educators to use the project technology and teaching strategies.
- Goal 4: To foster parent and community support for programs that provide assistive technology to classrooms by demonstrating the impact the technology has on learning disabled students' writing (Years 1 and 2) and math skills (Year 2).
- Objective 1: SETC will encourage teachers to disseminate information that promotes parent and community support for the Technology for Learning Disabilities project.
- Objective 2: Teachers will disseminate information they learned to parents, other educators, or other audiences. Teachers will be required to hold an event at the end of each school year for students to demonstrate what they learned.
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- Objective 1: SETC will encourage teachers to disseminate information that promotes parent and community support for the Technology for Learning Disabilities project.