Blog post #12

          As time has come and gone, the methods of teaching have evolved tremendously. The days of paper are vanishing right before our eyes while technology is taking over. Today we have many teaching aids that can help us teach everybody including the impaired.

        The first is the iPad. iPads come with voice commands and are tone/sight impaired-ready. When voice command is activated the iPad will guide the user through it with voice commands such as "double tap for" or "tap and drag" etc. making it easy and usable for handicapped people. A feature that is purchasable is called iBook. iBook is very helpful for blind people because it can simply read books out loud to the user.

              Some teaching aids found in video 2 were: speech to text/text to speech devices, text telephones, sensory aids, screen magnifiers and flip cameras. All very helpful items that will most likely find their ways into educational institutions very quickly.

       The Mountbatten Typer is a type writer specifically used for audio and tactile feedback. It's a keyboard with keys that says what the person is typing out loud. This device can also save, send and receive files from other computers.

         

You can watch the video here