I am lucky enough to have worked in Special Education, prior to this year, therefore I had access to the Board E.A. to come and help me install Spec. Ed. programs such as Dragon and Kurzweil, as well she has trained classrooms to use Co-Writer and Write Out Loud. Any classroom teacher in our borad, HWDSB, can have her come in to train a small group of Spec. Ed. students or a whole class, just ask your L.R.T. Alot of Spec. Ed. programs are "helpful to all and necessary for some", a program such as co-writer, a word predictor software, is invaluable for your L.D. students. Helen Porter, one of our Board EA's went through the OESS software and showed me the OSAPAC website. I could not believe such a thing existed. I took all of my teacher training in Manitoba therefore I am not sure if teachers here are aware of the website through teacher's colleges here, but I have been teaching here for 10 years and I was not aware it existed. I'm thrilled to see that programs are not only matched to grade level, but also to curriculum expectations. WHAT A WONDERFUL PLANNING TOOL.
Sonia Johnston
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