Jylene Paredes

Exploratory Essay Draft

“Assistive technology for students with learning disabilities: A glimpse of the livescribe pen and its impact on homework completion” -Kelly A. Harper, Kristin Kurtzworth-Keen, Michele A. Marable

Within this article, it talks about a new form of assistive technology that is called a LiveScribe Pen, which includes a microphone for audio recordings, playback speaker and more. This pen was introduced in 2008, by Jim Marggraff that was intended to help disabled children with their homework.
With the LSP having a wide range of technological advances, it was sure to have a success on those who wanted to and were intrigued to the technology.

One of the disabilities, Dyslexia ( the process of difficulty in the deciding of words ) in one of the disadvantages that would work well for the LSP.

• Use the audio to playback a sentence or two that the child might not be able to read
• Save images of work to perhaps be ‘decoded’ later Citations ( evidence from a fourth grader who used LSP)

• “The mother and her fourth-grade child were also main participants in the study. The child was eager to utilize the pen….”
• “She was also able to record (rather than write) her responses to writing prompts that followed each passage. As the team found success, the pen’s use was expanded….”