District Administration - Education In Hand - June 2006 - (Page 19)
SPECIAL EDUCATION Palm Handhelds pecial education S teacher Lynn Parsons
had some encourage- Touch Students ment for a mother that doubted that her
high-school daughter would be with Autism interested in attending the
teacher's after-school social-skills class for students with
high-functioning autism or Asperger's syndrome. I said, `Bring her, and
watch A Texas district uses handhelds when we pass out the Palm hand-
helds,''' recalls Parsons, who works to motivate students at a high school
in the Birdville Independent School District, located near Ft. Worth. The
twelve with Asperger's syndrome high school students in Parsons' J U N E
2006 class use the color-screen comput- BY KEVIN BUTLER erized devices to
write stories and 19 E D U C A T I O N I N HAN D Palm Palm 19-21rev.indd
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