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Accessibility Creating MATHLIT Kits: Math Assistive Technology Hands-On Literature Integration Tool Kits Part 1: Low-Tech Tools We hope you’ve had a chance to read last week’s outstanding posting to this Microsoft Hot Topics Accessibility blog by our colleagues, Judith Schoonover and Sally Norton-Darr, titled See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Hear Me: Adapting Books for Diverse Learners. They described a wide variety of ways to make books accessible for all learners through multisensory adaptations. Using these strategies, our Loudoun County Public Schools Assistive Technology Team has created numerous adapted book kits that ...

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Accessibility Are you Using the Speak Text-to-Speech Command in Office? During a typical day (if you can say any day is typical in the life of an AT specialist) we have the opportunity to work with teachers and students to show them available network tools. Quite often parents ask us what tools they could be using at home to support their child. This past week, we were again working with students who have great difficulty with reading and writing! You know the student that hates to write and seems to be falling farther and farther behind in reading and writing. They...

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Accessibility Using Microsoft Tools to Provide Access to Math and Science for Diverse Learners Day 5 UDL and OneNote Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles are the foundation for reaching and teaching diverse learners. Val shared in earlier posts: Universal Design for Learning - Providing Options for Action and Expression and Universal Design for Learning - Multiple Means of Engagement. If you haven't read them take a minute to do so! Microsoft Office Suite offers amazing tools that enable us to integrate the UDL Principles. One of the newest tools that we are excited about using this ...

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Accessibility Using Microsoft Tools to Provide Access to Math and Science for Diverse Learners: Day 3 Creating electronic forms; exploring math equations and symbols; and creating graphic organizers and visual supports using graphics in MS Word When looking around classrooms today, you often see teachers using worksheets for students to practice math and science skills. Look a little closer and you might find struggling learners staring out the window or with their heads down on their paper. Students who struggle with reading and writing not only need supports with a specific curriculum focus ...

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Accessibility Using Microsoft Tools to Provide Access to Math and Science for Diverse Learners: Day 1 Thanks, Val for the great introduction! We first met the Microsoft Accessibility Team in the summer of 2011 at the Innovative Educators’ Forum. We presented a variety of ways that Microsoft Office Suite could be used to support math and science learning. We had a wonderful discussion of the accessibility resources such as Accessibility: A Guide for Educators and Accessibility: Curriculum Resources for Special Education at published by the Microsoft Accessibility Team. During this discussion, we...

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