The article entitled "DO-IT Program Helps Students Overcome Obstacles" by Laura Amond, opens by introducing a student who is part of the “Who’s Who of American High School Students.” This student’s name is Joel Green and he is a high achiever, which the article goes on listing all of his awards and organizations he belongs to. What makes Green stand out from other students of his status is that he has dyslexia. He has worked through this challenge by the DO-IT, which stands for Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking and Technology. Students with dyslexia may have trouble with reading, spelling, speech, math, memory, and concentration. Green stated that he learns differently and used to use audio books to help him learn at first.
The program “DO-IT” helps give the knowledge and skills to high school students, so that they have success in what ever career or educational path they take following high school. Many of the participants use the Internet and other networks as a means of tutoring. Green stated that the “DO-IT” program made him “computer literate” and taught him: “shortcuts, plus they build your computer around your disability. I mostly need help with grammar and spelling, and they have the latest technology for correction of mechanical errors."
I choose this article for a number of reasons. I want to teach students with disabilities, and this article introduced a new organization to help students with disabilities. Even though most of the article talked about Joel Green who is dyslexic, the “DO-IT” program has members with many different disabilities both mental and physical. I also like that this program focuses on technology as a means for student achievement. I was hoping to learn about student software designed to help students with certain learning disabilities and this program assists students individually. By doing this the “DO-IT” program can personalize the participant’s computers with the latest software that will help that student excel.
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DO-IT Program Helps Students Overcome Obstacles
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The Do-It programs sounds like a great program. Technology is a wonderful tool to help students with disabilities excel and succeed in the classroom and in life in general. Audio books as well as many other low-tech and high-tech devices increase functional and educational capabilities of students with a variety of disabilities. It is nice to read about a success story. For some reason I was not able to pull up the article with the link that you provided. When I tried it, it brought me to a ProQuest page where I needed and account name and password.
Thanks for the post. I tried the link, and it worked for me. Maybe something was down at the proquest website.
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