Autism and How Our School Librarian Gets Involved
Week Eight- 7724
There are many great resources available for students
with autism in our school system today.
In our school, many teachers utilize the resources to help the students
with autism successful in the classroom.
The technological devices help our students, communicate, read and write
in our classroom setting. I would like
to focus specifically on our school librarian and the resources they provide
both our teachers and our students with autism.
Some services and devices our school provides students
with autism are audio books.
Unfortunately, there are very limited budget for our school librarian
and therefore, she is incapable of providing our students with excess
technology devices to help enhance the classroom setting. Although we do have a lack of resources and accommodations,
grants are always available to receive funding for these specific devices. Some other areas our school librarian helps
our students is provides them with text to speech equipment.
Our school librarian’s most important job when it comes
to accommodations and modifications to our students with special needs is there
collaboration with our classroom teachers.
Although our librarians are not involved in the IEP process, they still
provide opportunities for classroom teachers to utilize the library for their
specific needs. Most of our teachers
approach our school librarians when it comes to questions with assistive technologies.
When it comes to adaptive technology, our school
librarians do not offer an extensive amount of devices to use. Our school does use modified books to help
the students read and write. The librarians
do provide an opportunity for the students with autism to come in and organize
the books as well as opportunities to use audio books on the computers. Videos are also available for the students to
use to help assist them with the topics they are learning in their regular education
classrooms.
I believe our school is
lacking with it comes to assistive technology devices in the library. The
article, Assistive Technology and Autism, discussing various devices the school
could use to help students with autism.
Instructional software, portable handheld dictionaries, and reading pens
are all great suggestions to help students with autism be successful in the
classroom setting. In order to continue to help students with special needs, it
is important all teachers are continuing to research and learn about available
technological devices.
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