120- Technology Supports for Middle and High School Students with ADHD and LD
ADHD Experts Podcast
ADDitude
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2015
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Assistive technology can help students with ADHD or learning disabilities leverage strengths to compensate for weaknesses. Shelley Haven discusses available devices and technology, and how to match them to your child's learning profile.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine. |
| 0:12.0 | Hey everyone, it's Susan Coffin, good afternoon and you are listening to Attitude |
| 0:15.8 | Magazine's ADHD experts audio. Today I'm welcoming our guest speaker, Shelly Haven. |
| 0:22.4 | Shelly Haven is going to discuss a topic of huge enormous interest to any child with ADHD or learning disabilities. |
| 0:28.7 | And that is how do you choose the right technology, the software, the device that will specifically help your middle or high schooler with learning differences, with reading, with writing, with no-taking, and all the academic challenges that come along in these school years. |
| 0:45.2 | Let me just clarify that Shelley's topic today is primarily reading, writing, and note taking. |
| 0:50.1 | She will touch upon some executive |
| 0:52.8 | challenges, executive functioning challenges, |
| 0:54.6 | organization, time management, but the primary topic today |
| 0:58.1 | is learning differences, learning challenges, |
| 1:01.0 | which, as most of you know know over half of ADHD children suffer from. |
| 1:06.0 | She is a certified assistant technology professional. She specializes in matching students with technology appropriate to their needs in |
| 1:16.8 | the San Francisco Bay Area, where she has a consulting business called Technology to |
| 1:20.6 | unlock Potential. And for more information and lots of great |
| 1:24.8 | insights please visit her website it's www. |
| 1:28.9 | tech potential dot net so thanks so much for joining us today Shelley. We're grateful for your time. Well hi welcome |
| 1:36.8 | everybody so I'm an AT consultant I go |
| 1:43.2 | area and |
| 1:43.7 | and also, California and sometimes elsewhere. |
| 1:48.0 | So our topic for today is, |
| 1:51.0 | you know, choosing the right technology support. |
| 1:53.2 | So it's more about teaching you to fish rather than giving you a fish, |
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