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Below you will find additional Assistive Technology resources and recommended resources to support students.

MDUSD Sp Ed Case Managers can request assistive technology services through the
Assistive Technology Service request form on the MDUSD Staff Portal

How to Request
A.T.
​services
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for A.T. services
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Understanding the use of Assistive Technology in the classroom

This presentation is a brief overview of Assistive Technology in the classroom.

Technology tools to support executive functioning.


The one handed typing system

This system gives the typist the greatest speed, is easiest and gives the user a greater feeling of self-esteem is called One Hand QWERTY. In this, the typist centers his or her fingers on FGHJ, on a normal standard keyboard. You can find this system here.

One Handed
typing system
​website

Understood

A resource for parents with students ages 3–20, that are struggling with learning and attention issues.

Understood 
​Website

HOW TO FIND A STUDENT’S GOOGLE
​ACCOUNT ON AERIES

This guide will show you have to find a student's Google account login information within Aeries.
How to find student
Google login
​​PDF

Read works

Provides the largest, highest-quality library of curated nonfiction and literary articles in the country, along with reading comprehension and vocabulary lessons, formative assessments, and teacher guidance. Most importantly, everything ReadWorks does is based on proven cognitive science research, not unproven academic theory.

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Read Works
​Website

Newsela

​Online non-fiction articles that can be leveled so that your student can access the content at their reading level.

Contact the MDUSD Sp Ed office to inquire about a Techers account..
Newsela
​Website

Storyline

​Storyline Online, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations.
Storyline
​website

Noisli Chrome extension

Simple tool that provides background white noise that helps with focus.
How to use
​noisli
Learn how white noise
can help
​reduce distractions

EPIC BOOKS

An online kids' eBook subscription service that offers thousands of high-quality books from well known publishers that both teachers and parents can use with children.

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Epic Books
​Website

Sumedog

"​At Sumdog, we want to help every child enjoy math and ELA.
Our online learning service is used by millions of children worldwide. It adapts to each individual, using engaging game-based learning to motivate and build confidence.
Meanwhile, our learning engine reports progress to their teachers and parents, and frees educators to target their interventions.
Sumdog provides engaging learning and practice in numeracy for children aged 5-14, and literacy for children aged 5-11."
Somedog
​website

Turning On Text to Speech for
EDAMS District Assessment​

Here you will find a guide on how to activate Text to Speech accommodations for EDAMS District assessments.
Activating edams
​guide

Tar Heel Gameplay

Tar Heel Gameplay, a collection of free, easy-to-play, and accessible games. Each game is speech enabled and may be accessed using multiple interfaces, including touch screens and 1 to 3 switches.
You may create your own games using videos from the huge collection at YouTube.

Tar Heel Gameplay is being developed and tested in the Google Chrome browser. It may work in other modern browsers but save yourself some confusion and try it with Chrome.
Ready to get started? Click the button to the right! 
Tar Heel
​website

LUCIDCHART

Lucidchart is a drawing tool that comes with many pre-made educational templates of charts and diagrams. Students can collaborate on a Lucidchart, add web links and images. Lucidchart works with student's Google drive to keep all their work organized.
Create your first document & basic functions in LucidChart:
Creating your first document Video Tutorial
Creating a Sequence Chart Tutorial in LucidChart:
Tutorial for creating
​a sequence chart

Google Dictionary

Google Dictionary extension makes it super easy for anyone to search for and find word definitions with a single click. The way Google extension dictionary works is simple: open a web page, double click on any word, a pop-up bubble shows up containing the word's definition. ​

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  • Online Teaching