ERIC Number: ED288317
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1987-May
Pages: 32
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Ideas for Integrating the Microcomputer with Special Education.
Pollard, Jim, Ed.
This publication contains six presentations on using microcomputers in special education, submitted by special education teachers at informal information sharing sessions. The first is a lesson plan involving pre-computer activities that prepare preschool developmentally delayed children for using a computer keyboard. Finger isolation and directionality are taught through the use of modeling clay, toy cars, tracing, and games such as Simon Says. The second presentation gives guidelines for forming groups of computer-using special educators who want to exchange ideas. Following that, two lesson plans provide drill and practice in reinforcing basic math skills for elementary resource room students. The software programs used are "Mastering Math System" and "Milliken Math Sequences," both operating on Apple IIe computers. Another lesson plan explains how a menu-driven program called "Secret Filer" is used by emotionally disabled elementary school students to create databases of information about stories they have read. The final lesson describes use of the "Adaptive Firmward Card" to customize computer input methods for physically disabled students, aged 8-11 in ability. For each lesson, the following types of information are given: target audience, hardware and software needed, project description including objectives, lesson description, scheduling information, and teacher preparation activities. (JDD)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Databases, Developmental Disabilities, Elementary Education, Emotional Disturbances, Input Output Devices, Lesson Plans, Mathematics Instruction, Microcomputers, Physical Disabilities, Preschool Education, Reading Skills, Special Education, Teacher Developed Materials, Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Collected Works - General; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
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Audience: Practitioners; Teachers
Language: English
Sponsor: Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: Northwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR.
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