July 2, 2015
NESCA Intern Courtney Rose Dykeman-Bermingham, a rising senior majoring in Neuroscience at Mount Holyoke College and volunteer at their AccessAbility Services (AAS) office, discusses top tech tools students with learning disabilities and executive function challenges to use to optimize educational experiences.
Program Schedule
July 15: Executive Functioning, Time Management & Organization — Learn about apps and web-based programs to help in these areas.
July 22: LiveScribe Smart Pens — Learn about this new format of note taking, where recordings and notes are synced.
July 29: Kurzweil 3000 Firefly — This is more than a screen reader; it can help your child organize their notes and makes finding specific passages easier.
August 5: Evernote — An innovative way to organize materials, it can create compilations of notes, images recordings and more.
Each sessions will include a seminar, relevant demonstrations and a Q&A period.
The use of these technologies would be most beneficial for high school and college aged students, but parents of younger students could also benefit from the knowledge.
When: 9:30 - 10:30am; four successive Wednesdays
The use of these technologies would be most beneficial for high school and college aged students, but parents of younger students could also benefit from the knowledge.
When: 9:30 - 10:30am; four successive Wednesdays
55 Chapel Street Suite 202, Newton, MA
Who: Students, and parents or guardians of students with
Who: Students, and parents or guardians of students with
language-based learning disabilities, attentional
and/or executive function issues.
Cost: FREE!
Cost: FREE!
To register, please email info@nesca-newton.com, and include the student’s age or grade. Seating is now very limited; advance registration is required.
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