Technology Integration For Children With Learning Disabilities

1.     Brief of Technology Integration: 

We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher’s hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world. With time and evolvement within the technology there's a change inside the education system. We have distinctive modes of education i.e. the classic education, distance finding out along with the on the internet courses.

A one-to-one interaction amongst the teacher plus the student. It is easy to deliver points to the ones sitting in front of you and also uncomplicated to get for the students to know in a better way.

Education and technology has allowed students to have a substantial amount of resources to e-textbooks, software materials, online meetings for classes, and more. Education online has allowed students to receive the same information given in a traditional classroom setting, right in the comfort of their own home.

2.     Children with Learning Disabilities: 

Learning Disability is not a disorder or a syndrome. Some of them catch and learn quickly, some go slow. All of them have different learning skills, techniques, capabilities, it is all matter of time. However, with technology integration, students are running along with it advancing new skills, enhancing and improvising knowledge with the sources they have. 

We need to focus on students with learning disabilities i.e., all the help they need. Here is a wish list of what is currently needed by people with learning disabilities, how to help children learn and make capable of contributing to society. What is needed is proper guidance from educators and an education system that helps them to achieve their full potential. 

Listening comprehension: individuals with dyslexia have a tendency to be better listeners than readers. Child could experience difficulty following what the teacher is saying in a loud classroom. Sitting close to the teacher can reduce diversions.

Memory: children with dyslexia can take a long time to read a sentence that they may not recall the sentence that came before it. Listening to an audio version or using other kinds of assistive technology can help.

Navigation: children with dyslexia may struggle with spatial ideas, for example “left” and “right”. This can lead to fears about getting lost in school hallways, auditoriums and other familiar places. 

Time management: dyslexia can make it difficult to tell time or stick to a schedule. A phone alarm, picture schedule and other different prompts can keep children on track. Help children early intervention is superior to ignoring them: it’s very important to identify the children with learning disabilities. It is critical to find dyslexia children early. 

Parents and teachers can better assist these students when detection is made early. Skills and hands-on training is preferable to improve academic skills

Sensitivity to dyslexia students: if parents and teachers discover a learning disability early and provide the appropriate help, it can give the child or adult a chance to develop skills required to lead a successful and productive life. Teachers should give extra time during exams, at least thirty minutes for dyslexia students. This may greatly help students with learning difficulties to acquire better grades in exams. Teachers must also learn how to deal with these students. 

Government funding is necessary and should never end: government funding greatly supports the teaching students with unique needs. The government money available for extracurricular activities like music classes, speech and occupational therapy, and physiotherapy can help improve their social and academic performance. Organizing special travels requires money, too. Ideally, there should be one teacher for every five students. 

There are many college students with learning disabilities who are intelligent, talented, and creative. Typically, they have developed many different strategies to hide or compensate for their learning disabilities.

Slow reading speed or problem in modifying reading speed may be a problem. 

Difficulties with reading comprehension and retention. Difficulty identifying important issue, point and themes 

Misunderstanding of similar words, difficulty learning new vocabulary

Skips words or sentences. Difficulty reading for long periods of time. 

3.  Way Out to Aid Learning Disabilities:

• Pictography, Word Art, criticality thinking can help children. It also makes students learn with fun and enjoyment and doesn’t make boring or any diversion. It helps them to remember with logic. 

• Help them Socialize in school with other students. Introvert and Extrovert children differ with their learning tactics
• Do not make teaching as Closed wall activity. Explore it to outside of classroom.  
• Some usually are hyper sensitive and hyper active. Some have sensitive disorder. Criticality thinking varies in them. Make them flexible and be sure there are no such crossroads taking place. 
• Teach them with puzzle solving techniques, go for paper-less teaching, interest the lessons by graphics/animation/sculpture, children attract quickly, learning access becomes ease. 
• Non-verbal communication lessons, interesting stories through skits, video graphic lessons, conceptual notes making. 
• Give students different topics and make them Elocute on topics, debate with each other, consequently learn pros and cons. 
• Some have podium fear, score-less in exams, some have fear to mathematics (numeric), science (diagrams), inability to speak confidently. 
• Do not differentiate children/students from any disorder among other children. Those differentiation makes them feel awkward, they also feel they cannot move freely or learn like others. It makes them suffer mentally. Some have autistic disorders. Parents and teachers shall notice signs accordingly.

4.      Conclusion:

Learning and teaching can be established beyond the formal classroom. If you want to teach, then help those around you to better understand their environments and the subjects not seen as significant in schools. 

If you want to learn, help yourself and others to question all that you see around you (you may not have all of the answers, but that just means that you will always have something to learn). Make the younger generation into system of “practice of freedom” by which men and women deal with reality and discover how to participate. 

People deserve respect and equal opportunities to expand their knowledge and human potential, regardless of how easy the subjects are for them to learn. Individuals have their own learning styles. Not everyone learns the same way. Students are taught to memorize and regurgitate information, and those who cannot conform to this structure do not fit in. 

Teachers are forced to follow set guidelines that allow little-to-no room for creativity. But the reality is that students and teachers are made up of individuals with differing personalities, learning habits, tendencies, and needs. There needs to be room for disabilities, identities, and there needs to be room for acceptance for all.