Highlights and Key Takeaways:
-Behavorial regulation, self management and time management are controlled by the frontal lobe
-The frontal lobe is the "conductor of the orchestra" or "the CEO of the brain"
-Deficites of the FL functions are evident in some way in every person with a psychiatric disorder
-EF deficits are most common in people with ADHD (100%), ODD and ASD
-The teacher acts as a surrogate frontal lobe through cuing and scaffolding
-Independent work (homework, test taking long term projects answering in class) are more challenging ways to demonstrate understanding.
-production is affected most with EF weaknesses
Top 3 Apps
Organization:
Tools4Students ($0.99) - 25 premade iPad graphic organizers. Can be emailed to teacher or saved.
For students with issues initiating ideas, preplanning, & organizing ideas
*This app is useful for many of my students and it's reasonably priced.
Metacognition:
Take a Chill ($0.99) - emotional management tools for teens with anxiety.Helps to achieve goals, direct behaviour, thought stopping and test anxiety.
"Stop", "Prep", "Daily Dose", "Audio", journal and stress inventory features that survey for useful strategies and resource suggestions.
*This is an excellent app that has many great features for a very reasonable price! I wish I had for the groups of students I just finished teaching. I had a number of students who had debilitating anxiety. It was very difficult watching them struggle and they would have really benefited from these features. I will be sure to let their future teachers know about is app and I am thankful to know about for my students in the future.
Sustained Attention:
Sound Curtain ($0.99) - provides automatically adjusting acoustic dampening with different sound features
Learning Disabilities Webinar
Highlights and Key Takeaways:
LDs can interfere with acquisition and use of one or more of the following:
-oral language (listening, speaking, understanding)
-written language (spelling, written expression)
-reading (decoding, phonetic knowledge, word recognition, comprehension)
-mathematics (computation, problem solving)
Under the Accessability settings "Speak Selection" allows highlighting of text and reads words aloud.
The "Guided Access" settings prevent students from exiting the app they are working with
Top 3 Apps
Paperport Notes (free) - imports PDFs, annotates, highlights, voice to text. Can email to teacher.
Necessary for using sites like RazKids, StarFall and Tunble Books
*This is an app that will be more more useful as one continues to use an iPad. There are a number of educational sites that employ Adobe Flash. It is well worth the cost, this is the first app I was willing to actually pay for and I'm sure my coworkers will be interested in purchasing it as well.
*Great app for all students to demonstrate creativity to produce things like class content dictionaries. It's also a great way to create class content with UDL in mind.
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