The DIMS Approach is a key focus in my family-friendly book, Tech Psychologist's Guide to Technology and Access Tools. The DIMS Approach™ helps parents to ask, "Does it make sense?" On this blog, as in my book, you'll find practical solutions, tips, and news items related to finding technology tools as well as help in advocacy.
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Tech Psychologist's Guide to Technology and Access Tools
by Dr. Jeanne Beckman
"Wow! This book is a great resource... empowers parents to advocate for their children who have learning issues.. a very logical approach to brainstorming and putting into place the most effective [technology] solutions to enhance the learning process... offers parents and other educators a logical step-by-step approach to help children succeed academically."
----Joan L. Green, M.A. CCC_SLP,
author: "Technology for Communication and Cognitive Treatment: The Clinician's Guide"
Available at the publisher, Virtual Book Worm:
www.virtualbookworm.com
(http://tinyurl.com/3d2a6l)
A percentage of each book I sell is being donated to the Winnetka Rotary Accessible Literacy Project.
Wednesday, November 28
Illiteracy causes more harm than merely having a reduced ability to read and write. Illiteracy causes entire families to remain isolated from the everyday fabric of their local and global communities, to remain isolated from inspiration acquired by "enough education," and to remain isolated from a means to share history beyond the reaches of their spoken word.
----Jeanne Beckman
Sunday, November 25
For students without disabilities, technology makes things easier. For students with disabilities, technology makes things possible."
----- M.P. Radabaugh
Thursday, November 1
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
------Margaret Mead, anthropologist (and a mom)
Friday, October 26
Wednesday, October 24
Education is not filling a pail, but lighting a fire.
--Yeats
Friday, October 19
Each time a man stands for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
–Robert F. Kennedy
Tuesday, October 16
If a public body, such as a school, seeks to silence a parent-requested speaker because he or she is too "controversial," then red flags should fly. In the past, families have not been allowed to share information through the schools about educational matters, and books have been banned or even burned to keep "the public" in the dark. Although our country holds great value in "freedom of speech," speakers as well as books continue to be banned from some public schools. Books have been written about these bannings, such as
Banned in the U.S.A. : a reference guide to book censorship in schools and public libraries by Herbert N. Foerstel
Thursday, October 4
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Tuesday, Sept. 25
Instead of always starting at the low-tech end of the technology continuum, we should ask what tools would give our students the closest approximation to the age peer’s access to the learning process, including speed of acquisition of knowledge, closest approximation to the output speed, quality of output, and independence of the student’s non-disabled peers.
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