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Bob Keller
Don Johnston Incorporated
800-999-4660
bkeller@donjohnston.com
Dave Butler
Don Johnston Incorporated
800-999-4660
dbutler@donjohnston.com
Discover:Switch (R) , Discover:Screen(R) , Discover:Board(R)
and Discover:Kenx(TM) provide computer access to students with
physical and learning disabilities. Discover products do much
more than just replace the regular keyboard and mouse. Discover
products provide a springboard for learning and literacy
development.
Participants will learn how to design setups for reading,
writing and word study activities to support balanced literacy
instruction.
In the Circle of Literacy Learning, reading comprehension
activities enable a student to understand and discuss what they
read. Discover setups can provide the learning scaffold to help
students explore the meaning of print.
Students with physical disabilities and significant
developmental challenges need a method to read and manipulate
books. Discover setups can provide talking books on the computer.
Participants will learn how to create talking books for emerging
readers to use for independent reading.
Setups can provide the alphabet and word banks to support
student in writing activities. Setups can also provide scaffolds
for the writing process. Participants will create on screen
scaffold setups for students to use while they write with the
keyboard. This intervention is especially powerful for students
with learning disabilities.
Students can learn to manipulate the sounds in words in a
variety of word study setups. Participants will learn how to make
setups to practice onsets and rimes, making words, rhyming words
and more On screen and scanning setups can be dynamically linked
to step students through activities and provide good
instructional feedback. . Participants will also learn how to add
instructional feedback to setups so students learn how to make
correct choices.
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
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