Understanding Students with Disabilities and Learning Principles

Purpose of interleaving in practice

• To mix different types of content to improve retention and application.

• To focus on one type of content at a time for deeper understanding.

• To eliminate distractions during study sessions.

• To increase the amount of content covered in a shorter time.

One way to embed accommodations in assessments

• Incorporate features like chunking, sentence frames, and digital manipulatives.

• Use only traditional testing methods without modifications.

• Eliminate all forms of assessment accommodations.

• Focus solely on oral assessments without written components.

True or False: Assistive technology can be beneficial for students without disabilities.

• True

• False

• Sometimes

• Only for certain subjects

How can assistive technology support students with learning disabilities in reading?

• By providing tools like text-to-speech software, audiobooks, and visual aids to enhance comprehension and engagement.

• By limiting access to reading materials to improve focus.

• By encouraging students to read without any support to build independence.

• By providing traditional textbooks only to ensure consistency.

Aided-language communication devices use ____________________ to represent vocabulary.

• graphic icons (picture symbols)

• text-based symbols

• audio recordings

• hand gestures

How Universal Design for Learning (UDL) addresses cognitive load in the engagement principle

• By providing multiple means of engagement to reduce cognitive load.

• By limiting the amount of information presented to learners.

• By using only one method of instruction for all learners.

• By increasing the complexity of tasks to challenge learners.

Key question when considering AT under the SETT framework

• What does the student need to do that is currently difficult?

• What technology is available for the student?

• What are the student's strengths and weaknesses?

• What is the student's favorite subject?

Learning to use technology takes intentional, strategically planned experiences designed to teach foundational skills of operation.

• True

• False

• Sometimes

• Only for advanced users

In the context of using AI for lesson development, what does “prompt engineering” involve?

• A. Developing lesson plans without AI assistance.

• B. Crafting specific, structured inputs to guide AI outputs.

• C. Analyzing student performance data to improve lessons.

• D. Creating visual aids for classroom instruction.

Major role of assistive technology in UDL

• Supporting diverse ways for students to express their learning.

• Limiting access to educational resources.

• Standardizing learning experiences for all students.

• Reducing the need for individualized instruction.