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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 38156" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>This sounds like an Alphasmart Neo. difficult child 3 has had one (provided by the Education Dept) for some years now. It was supposed to stay at school but when he transferred to Distance Ed (which is still technically state-based education, it's just that he does his work at home) they sent it home with him. He's working on it as we speak.</p><p></p><p>It's a lot better than you think - because there's no flip-up screen, it's more durable. Very tough, in fact. We take it in the car with us and he types in the car. it will download to a easy child or a Mac just as easily. </p><p></p><p>difficult child 3 HAS to use it in exams, and for these it must be 'scraped out' and all files deleted before the exam. Spell check has to be turned off for the government literacy tests. He then types his responses and after the exam the supervisor takes him to a school computer where he downloads the file and prints it out, under supervision. This is only for major tests and exams which have to be done at an exam centre, or at his school head office (in the city - we visit about once a month or more for various events).</p><p></p><p>For daily school - the same thing, only usually it's under supervision of the class teacher, downloading onto the teacher's computer. That way he's able to work at his desk and not be constantly seen by the other kids as hogging the class computer.</p><p></p><p>When we travelled round Tasmania two years ago he had the Alphasmart on his lap in the car and would write his report on where we were going and what we were seeing, while we were on the road. We would stop and look at a place, such as the Shot Tower near Hobart, and when we piled back in the car and drove on he would write a few lines about the place we'd just been.</p><p>After we got back to our room that night he downloaded the digital camera into his father's laptop, backed up the Alphasmart file, and then began to insert photos into his text file. Once we got home we printed it off and sent it in for his teacher at the correspondence school.</p><p></p><p>We'll be doing the same thing in June, for our NZ trip.</p><p></p><p>I'm really glad for your difficult child - I think he will find it much better than a laptop - it's a different sort of tool, much more specific to what he needs and with fewer distractions built in.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 38156, member: 1991"] This sounds like an Alphasmart Neo. difficult child 3 has had one (provided by the Education Dept) for some years now. It was supposed to stay at school but when he transferred to Distance Ed (which is still technically state-based education, it's just that he does his work at home) they sent it home with him. He's working on it as we speak. It's a lot better than you think - because there's no flip-up screen, it's more durable. Very tough, in fact. We take it in the car with us and he types in the car. it will download to a easy child or a Mac just as easily. difficult child 3 HAS to use it in exams, and for these it must be 'scraped out' and all files deleted before the exam. Spell check has to be turned off for the government literacy tests. He then types his responses and after the exam the supervisor takes him to a school computer where he downloads the file and prints it out, under supervision. This is only for major tests and exams which have to be done at an exam centre, or at his school head office (in the city - we visit about once a month or more for various events). For daily school - the same thing, only usually it's under supervision of the class teacher, downloading onto the teacher's computer. That way he's able to work at his desk and not be constantly seen by the other kids as hogging the class computer. When we travelled round Tasmania two years ago he had the Alphasmart on his lap in the car and would write his report on where we were going and what we were seeing, while we were on the road. We would stop and look at a place, such as the Shot Tower near Hobart, and when we piled back in the car and drove on he would write a few lines about the place we'd just been. After we got back to our room that night he downloaded the digital camera into his father's laptop, backed up the Alphasmart file, and then began to insert photos into his text file. Once we got home we printed it off and sent it in for his teacher at the correspondence school. We'll be doing the same thing in June, for our NZ trip. I'm really glad for your difficult child - I think he will find it much better than a laptop - it's a different sort of tool, much more specific to what he needs and with fewer distractions built in. Marg [/QUOTE]
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