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For my assignment I used Shirley Chisholm’s speech from 1970 for the Equal Rights Amendment.  Link for Speech: https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/PDFFiles/Shirley%20Chisholm%20-%20For%20the%20Equal%20Rights%20Amendment.pdf Kahoot! https://create.kahoot.it/share/sped-277-american-rhetoric/02eecb1f-bfc6-4ed4-b708-e96881636ea5 Piktochart https://create.piktochart.com/output/45977105-sped-277-american-rhetoric The American Rhetoric obtains popular speeches in history with multiple means of representations. Some speeches are audio and/or printed text. This is a great tool because it gives the students the powerContinue reading “Module 9”

Learning Ally is nonprofit educational organization to help school-age children and adults who are struggling learning by giving them the tools to reach their greatest potential. Learning Ally is a program that contains thousands of audiobooks that students can listen to when reading books. Students will improve their grades, score higher on test, gain confidenceContinue reading “Module 8: Learning Ally”

Augmentative & Alternative Communication Devices Augmentative and Alternative communication (AAC) devices are tools to help individual who may have little to no means of verbal communication, yet there is a difference between these two. Augmentative devices are used by people who have some speech abilities but, are unintelligible or with limited speech abilities. Alternative communicationContinue reading “AAC Devices- WP7”

Some things I have learned about accessible materials are the different programs that are available for students such as, text to speech, online readers, word processor, spell check. It also expresses the importance of offering these different softwares to all students because all students can benefit from them and it helps to decrease stigma ifContinue reading “Module 4”

Alexandra Peskin Spring 2020 Module 3 In the first video, one can truly see how Steve does not his ALS get in the way of his daily activities with his family, such as going on the football field with his son and wife or watching a movie with his son. It is so good toContinue reading “SPED 277”