Assistive Technology Plan

Assistive Technology Plan

Assistive Technology Plan

Name of Learner: Kelvin Smith

Disability Area: Kelvin shows problems in reading and learning. It comes under the subject of learning disabilities: The word refers a disability in one or more of the crucial mental or emotional procedures implicated in recognizing or in employing speech, verbal or non verbal, that may marked itself in a defective capability to pay attention, believe, verbalize, interpret, understand writing, put in writing, imply, or to carry out any exercise in the class, together with circumstances for example perceptual disabilities, brain damage, negligible brain dysfunction, and development aphasia. Language teachers are frequently disturbed by the situation that Kelvin do not involuntarily use the approaches taught in the class room to read passages in the book on his own. Poor reading skills makes difficult for Kelvin to evaluate and understand current events.

Age/Grade: 2nd Grade

Description of the Learner: In spite of the effective attempts of his educators, Kelvin is slow to distinguish clearly the letters of the alphabet. He faces great problem and complexity in learning the sounds every letter have. His information and understanding of sight words is negligible. He gives no concentration in looking at storybooks or other reading material. He seems distracted by the class room setting and losing focus on his study, as a result of this disability. By the phase the young person moves to next grade, his reading and conceptual abilities turned to be highly developed to a grade equal of a mid-year first level learner. With the passage of time, the learner (Kelvin), his family members and language educators have made several attempts and even used novel teaching methods; applied a range of teaching resources; gave extra time to boost Kelvin's reading skills; involved peer booklovers to function with him; and applied a crowd ...