DAY 3

July 10, 2014 Especial Kids with especial needs Today started with Catrinel. She talk about “ Techonology assisted inclusive education students with intelectual Disabilities”. Was very interesting because give us opportunities to think about how to do when child with disabilitites is in our classrooms. In Portugal , particular in elementary school,this children are in our classrooms all the time. Teachers have suport and work with teacher special education. They plan together and adapting curriculum. But is regular teacher who make de worksheets , prepares the lesson e teaches the child. Next came Andreea with “Assiste Tecnhologies for children with dysgraphia” . She show us software to use in our classroom with children with dysgraphia. At the time I had only one student with dysgraphia in my classroom. At the time, there was not tablets and I used wet sand to writing skills practice. It`s amazing what technology can help in. Annamaria bring us an interesting exercice: we try spell a sentence without using the voice and showed some apps for deaf that we can use in our classroom. The first presentation of the evening was about “ Inclusive University for visual impairments students: support centres” . I enjoyed listening to Lavinia and was very enlightening. The last presentation of the day was about “ The role of technology in Enhancement of quality of life for persons with motor disabilities” I enjoyed listening to Alina and was very enlightening. This last presentation make me think more about this theme.