Helping Students with Disabilities
AyudaTec pays special attention to students with disabilities. The AyudaTec founders are leaders in the vibrant Assistive Technology movement, which deploys creative computer technologies to help people with physical, visual, and cognitive disabilities to learn, communicate, and live to their fullest potential. AyudaTec takes these technologies to Latin America, where they are dearly needed.
A few success stories:
Anita
Anita is a 5-year-old with sensory and fine motor difficulties along with visual impairments. With this program, Anita has increased her phonological awareness, vocabulary, and reading comprehension of phrases and short stories.
Juan
Juan Carlos is a 10-year-old with multiple disabilities who is currently integrated in a 5th grade regular education class. Although he was already reading when he started using Sonidos y Letras, this program has helped him increase phonological awareness, auditory discrimination and language comprehension as well as language structure. These abilities are reflected in his expressive language and reading comprehension.
Ivan
Ivan is a 5-year-old with cerebral palsy. This program has motivated him to start writing and reading by accessing activities that are appropriate for his cognitive and motor abilities.
Inez
Inez is a 5-year-old with cerebral palsy associated with severe motor disabilities and expressive language disorder. He just started acquiring basic reading and writing skills. Currently, Ignacio reads and writes words and phrases with all sounds and letters included in Sonidos y Letras.
He loves using the program and his levels of autonomy have increased due to the way the program facilitates activity completion.
Raquel
Raquel is a bright 5-year-old with cerebral palsy. She attends a pre-school program at an AyudaTec partner program in Mexico, where she´s learning to read and write and communicate. Sonidos y Letras is unique for her in that it teaches Spanish literacy and she can use it with her switch! She loves the songs, images, and feedback and this made her LOVE TO LEARN HER LETTERS!