About this item
Assistive Technology in Special Education presents a wealth of practical, well-organized information to help families, teachers, and therapists find effective solutions for students with learning, literacy, and cognitive challenges. This third edition features new affordable tools to improve and compensate for challenges related to speaking, understanding, reading, writing, and thinking and remembering, as well as strategies to help students become more organized and efficient. Also highlighted are iDevices, G Suite (Google Apps and Extensions) , online collaborative sites, and features built into the computers and mobile devices readers already use. As technology changes and new operating systems make older programs obsolete, this book will empower readers to explore the most current resources as they become available.
About the Author
Joan L. Green, MA CCC-SLP is a nationally known speech-language pathologist, technology tutor/specialist, author, presenter and mother of 4 young adults. She was raised in Buffalo, NY and received her undergraduate as well as graduate education at Northwestern University. Since 1986, she has provided forward-thinking, speech therapy services to individuals of all ages who have a wide variety of learning, cognitive, communication and literacy challenges. After spending time working in hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and home care, she formed Innovative Speech Therapy in 1992, so that she could provide top quality services using her unique approach combining cutting-edge technology with individualized action plans and speech therapy. How can you learn more about something that you may not even realize exists? Have you searched the app store or Google for "apps for learning" or "speech therapy apps" and become instantly overwhelmed with figuring out what to do next? That concept is what motivates Joan to keep reaching out to share what she knows as she tries to reach families who struggle with challenges related to ADHD, dyslexia, dysgraphia, aphasia, apraxia, Autism Spectrum Disorders, specific language disabilities and other neurogenic and developmental communication, learning and cognitive differences and disorders. Joan Green specializes in integrating everyday computer, tablets and mobile phones into engaging activities to promote communication, literacy, executive functioning and learning. She offers local and online technology-based training, consultation and coaching for professionals, schools, rehabilitation and educational programs and families. She is also the creator of the TheyMayNotKnow.com free webinar series and the administrator of the free private IST Tech Savvy Solutions Facebook Group. Both were created to support families as well as professionals as they strive to learn to use technology to support communication and learning. In addition, she received the highest "Meritorious" award from ASHA for her Poster at ASHAConnect 2018 titled, "Free Technology Tools to Help Your Clients Thrive."Joan is passionate about sharing what she has learned along the way with others! Her most recent well-received publication was published in May 2018, Assistive Technology in Special Education, 3rd Edition: Resources to Support Literacy, Communication, and Learning Differences. She has received several awards for her uniquely effective practical approach to helping stroke and head injury survivors, students with language and learning challenges, people of all ages with attention and productivity related issues, individuals with Autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disabilities. She is actively involved with many local, online and international groups and associations. Joan is ASHA certified and licensed in MD, VA and DC. She is also the mother of 4 wonderful young adults.Joan is a frequent presente
