Question

As with all things, teachers and students may face challenges when utilizing assistive technology in the classroom. Discuss challenges one might face when assistive technology is used, and how you as the teacher will handle such situations.

Answer 1

Assistive technology : assistive technology is a broad rang device .it is a software that can help kids with learning and useful to overcome their challenges.it is mainly useful for the children who have multiple disabilities. they often face obstacle to accessing and participating in self care ,play, education etc.this assistive technology is boon for the students with disabilities.it has two types low-tech devices and high-tech devices.it is pretty much useful for the disabled students to learn and overcome their weakness and improve self confidence. everything has its pros and cons.in some cases and some people believe that children completely depends on this assistive technology and listening audio books may affect the reading skill of children.managing children with disability is challenging to family and teachers too at schools.there are some challenges faced by students and teachers by using this assistive technology.the challenges faced by students by using this is for example one student do not want to use communication anymore because his classroom was changed and the new teacher came and she felt it is time consuming to learn to program it.and they also faced the challenges because of lack of teachers awareness about the devices .in other example using a communication devices in the class room it interrupts the class room and main problem is it is very difficult to manage the students behavior by using the device in normal students it is easy to control them by using normal disciplinary measures but in disabled students it is difficult.to overcome the challenges like this the teach should be trained and must have the awareness how to deal with the students and the devices.if am a teacher to overcome the challenges by using assistive technology first of i learn how to deal with these devices and how to handle students.and i will know the which particular device is useful for particular student .i will improve the awareness also.and patience ,patience can change any situation and challenges too.i will be very conscious and patience while teaching a student while communication.finally to overcome the teachers and students teacher must be trained and teacher must be patience while teaching with these students by assistive technology.