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Powerful assistive features are built into iPad to complement your vision, hearing, motor skills, learning, and literacy.
ASSISTIVE FEATURES
The iPad has many built-in assistive features to support students with their vision, hearing, motor skills, learning, and literacy. Some of these features are:
A range of customisable colour filters to complement different forms of colour blindness or other vision challenges.
High-quality video and a fast frame rate make FaceTime ideal for people who communicate using sign language.
Say what you want to write and your iPad converts your words (and numbers and characters) into text.
Helps people with autism or other attention and sensory challenges stay focused on the task (or app) at hand. With Guided Access, a parent, teacher, or therapist can limit iPad to stay on one app by disabling the Home button, and limit the amount of time spent in an app.
ASSISTIVE FEATURES
The iPad has many built-in assistive features to support students with their vision, hearing, motor skills, learning, and literacy. Some of these features are:
A range of customisable colour filters to complement different forms of colour blindness or other vision challenges.
High-quality video and a fast frame rate make FaceTime ideal for people who communicate using sign language.
Say what you want to write and your iPad converts your words (and numbers and characters) into text.
Helps people with autism or other attention and sensory challenges stay focused on the task (or app) at hand. With Guided Access, a parent, teacher, or therapist can limit iPad to stay on one app by disabling the Home button, and limit the amount of time spent in an app.
ACADEMIA’S SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AND DISABILITY (SEND) LIBRARY
Powerful assistive features are built into iPad to complement vision, hearing, motor skills, learning, and literacy.
REACHING ALL LEARNERS WITH iPAD
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Our new iBook aims to raise awareness of the many ways in which Apple technologies support the needs of all learners regardless of difficulty or disability. It is intended to be a reference for educators in all institutions.
LIZZY’S STORY
Lizzy Bull is 14 years old and a student at The de Ferrers Academy. Lizzy has Glaucoma and Cataracts with a genetic condition called Neurofibromatosis. These conditions have seriously affected Lizzie’s vision. This video looks at the accessibility features of the iPad and how they have helped Lizzie push aside any learning barriers.
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