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Making Technology Work in the Inclusive Classroom In this article it talks about how the teacher makes students with learning disabilities use the computer to type up an assignment before turning it in. The article mainly focuses on how students use spell checkers to help them learn how to spell words. It also talks about how it is very difficult for some students because they might not know how to start spelling the word or they could spell the word and then the word is not close enough for the program to be able to recognize the word that they are trying to spell. It talked about how the spell checkers helped the students to create a better product. It said that the spell checker helped to solve a lot of spelling problems so that the teacher could get a better look at what the students were actually trying to say. This helped the teachers to be able to look at how the students were able to develop their thoughts and how students understood the rules of grammar instead of the teachers just circling the misspelled words and having a hard time understanding what the students are trying to say. The students are provided with scaffolding because it gives students a bunch of options to pick the word that they are trying to spell from. It also gives feedback because if they do not see any words come up they know they need to try respelling the word again.

Ashton, Tamarah. "Making Technology Work in the Inclusive Classroom: A Spell Checking Strategy for Students with Learning Disabilities." //LD Online//. Web. 14 Feb. 2012. .