Assignment:
Scope
For this assignment, you will research an area of disability that you may encounter in the classroom, and present information based on research conducted online. Your research may include information from company websites, but you must include information from at least one article found in a scholarly journal.
This assignment addresses the following:
• North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards, Standard 4: Teachers facilitate learning for their students.
• Course Student Learning Outcome 4.0: Displaying a general knowledge of the computer as an instructional tool.
Learning Outcome
Upon completion of this assignment, and given specified topics regarding disabilities, students will be able to:
• Locate an article dealing with one of those disabilities in a scholarly journal.
• Evaluate online sources and identify appropriate sources related to that disability.
• Describe the disability.
• Identify ways in which the disability affects students' performance in the classroom.
• Identify assistive technologies that assist students affected by that disability.
• Write a paper in general APA format presenting the findings from the research on the disability.
Instructions
In at least 2 but no more than 3 pages, write a report on a disability that may affect students in the classroom. The report should follow the guidelines below.
• Answer the questions:
o What is assistive technology?
o Describe the disability that you researched.
o How does the disability affect a student's ability to perform in the classroom?
o What assistive technologies exist to help students with this disability (at least two) be more successful in the classroom? How do they help?
The technologies you present should he high tech*, and two completely different technologies, not two examples of the same.
• The report should include the following:
o Information from at least one scholarly journal article.
o An in-text reference to the scholarly journal article.
o Information from at least one organizational site (.org).
o An in-text reference to the organizational site.
o Information from a third source of your choosing (may be a commercial site).
o A title page.
o An abstract.
o Section headings.
o A reference page.
• Submit the report in Canvas using the Tumitin link provided.
• The Tumitin similarity index MUST be HYPO or less. If your similarity index comes back too high, you will need to revise the paper and resubmit.
Recommendations
• Get started on the assignment early. A third of your time will be spent just searching for information.
• Use the document in this week's Resources module to learn how to locate scholarly journal articles.
• Use the additional resources in this week's Resources module. There are several resources that deal with evaluating websites and writing in APA format.
• Do not wait until the last minute to submit the assignment to Turnitin. You will need to allow enough time to get the similarity index back and for revision and resubmission.