Integrating Augmentative Devices in an IEP

In the previous blog we addressed learned helplessness for students with disabilities.   This post will touch on the importance of developing IEPs that will appropriately provide students with disabilities the technology they need in order to be successful.   Once a student has been determined to need assistive technology and the proper equipment has been put in place the IEP must be written in order to include it.  In writing the goals for a student the IEP must remember that the augmentative device is the basis for achieving a goal.  The use of this technology must span both academic as well as social situations in the school day.


Reference:
 Dell, A. G., Newton, D. A., & Petroff, J. G. (2012). Assistive technology in the classroom (2nd ed).  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.