#10- Lankutis, T. 2004. Special Needs Technologies: An Administrator’s Guide

This article explains the necessary steps a school needs to take for students with disabilities to have a “free and appropriate education” by including all of a student’s IEP in making the decision about what technology assistance is need for the student. First, the team needs to decide on the appropriate technology assistance needed. Then, the team needs to gather information about what the student needs in each classroom. This could be by observation, interviewing the classroom teacher, and asking the student how the assistive technology is working. After that, the team needs to set specific goals. Then, have a trial period of the technology chosen and if it is helping continue with it, if not, try something else. Those were the steps that this article suggested and at the end of the article, the author provided a list of sources for assistive technology.

The author really made it clear that this process needs to be done by the whole IEP team, which I think is very important. I mean, having several educated and caring adults makes more sense than having one person run a child’s education. Also, the list of sources at the end of this article was great and helpful to reference. I think this article gave a great description about the best way to go about deciding what technology assistive to use for students with disabilities