Guest post by Willyn Webb | Cross posted at Teaching Generation Text
Cell phones open a new world of tools that can be accessed and used for adaptations required by students with special needs. Simple voice mail messages using Google Voice, texting, WeTxt notes, pictures to Flickr, Voki, GoogleSMS translator and any other tool depending on the phone are ways to assist students orally, visually, physically without any negative stigma. Students love their phones. They are an acceptable, even cool, device offering a variety of input and output capabilities. Students and staff are already familiar with cell phone functions and how to use them. This is adaptive aid with little or no cost to the school. Not only for school use, but outside of school and into the world of work, cell phones can be used by students to serve special needs.
Here are 3 ways to support special needs with cell phones.