Technology benifits for special needs and extreme learning styles

Technology can benefit all students, especially the ones with special needs and extreme learning styles, in all parts of the educational process. There are web sites and special programs out that can enhance the understanding of our students. Some great websites that we discussed using with our students are kidsnumbers.com, edheads.org, brainpop.com, and united streaming. These sites can be used by the students individually or as a teaching tool to the whole class. I have seen students with special needs work much harder for me when there is technology involved. One of my science students last year complained about every assignment unless it involved the computer. He would work on the edheads assignments for hours and was successful at learning the concepts being taught through that site. Some of the programs that we discussed using were accelerated math, A+ Math and discreet trial trainer. I used the A+ with students who worked better alone and going at their own pace. It was very successful for the extreme intrapersonal learners and the visual or linguistic learners.