Autism Spectrum Disorder and Assistive Technology
About this Series
This series was created by the Ohio Center for Autism and Low Incidence (OCALI) in partnership with the Texas Statewide Leadership for Autism Training and the Texas Education Agency.
Courses
Autism Spectrum Disorder and Assistive Technology: Organization
Focused on understanding the common organizational challenges for students with ASD, this course describes the process and importance using feature matching to find the most appropriate technology tools to build to build student skills in this area of deficit.
Participants will be able to:
- identify the common organizational challenges for students with ASD
- identify the features of the technology that help build student organizational skills
- describe the feature matching process
Autism Spectrum Disorder and Assistive Technology: Social
Focused on understanding the common social barriers for individuals with ASD, this course describes the features of technology that help students overcome these barriers and build social competence.
Participants will be able to:
- identify the common social barriers for individuals with ASD
- identify the features of technology that may support students overcome these barriers and build social competence.
Autism Spectrum Disorder and Assistive Technology: Literacy Supports
Focused on understanding common literacy barriers for students with ASD, this course describes the features of technology that help students overcome those barriers and build skills. It describes the process of using feature matching to find the most appropriate technology tools to build student skills in this area of deficit.
Participants will be able to:
- identify common literacy barriers for students with ASD
- identify the features of technology that helps build students literacy skills
Autism Spectrum Disorder and Assistive Technology: Writing
Focused on understanding the common writing barriers of individuals with AS this course describes the process and importance of using feature matching to find the most appropriate technology tools to support writing access in individuals with ASD.
Participants will be able to:
- identify the common writing barriers for students with ASD
- describe the process of feature matching student needs to technology tools to support writing access.