Teaching · Special Education

What is already on the device, and what the student knows about it.

Sit with the student and their own device and go feature by feature. The summary puts the features tied to their needs at the top of what to teach.

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Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Special Education toolkit, $99 for 130 items.

The feature check

One record per student and device. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Special Education$5 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
A list of built-in features to teach first and later, features known but unused, and what the student already uses.
Who it is for
Teachers of students with visual impairments, assistive technology specialists, special education teachers and media specialists.
Format
Browser checklist. One saved record per student and device; printed with its summary or as a blank form; CSV; export and import a file.
Access
$5 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Special Education toolkit ($99) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Special Education space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
ZoomContrastRead aloudDictationalready on the device
Drawn for this page. Most of what a student needs is already built into their device; the check finds what they do not know about yet.

How to use it

  1. Use the student’s own device, the one they carry to class.
  2. Ask the student to show you, not tell you: can they turn it on?
  3. Mark does not apply only when the feature really does not fit.
  4. Ask why about anything they know but do not use.
  5. Teach one or two features at a time and check again in a few weeks.

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What the checklist covers

Why built in first

Every major device includes magnification, contrast, text to speech, dictation and captions at no cost. A student who can turn them on alone, in any class and on test days where allowed, is less dependent on an adult.

Known but unused

A feature the student knows but does not use often has a reason: it is slow, it draws attention, or it is set up badly. That reason is worth more than the checkmark.

What it is not

The checklist is not a vision, reading or assistive technology evaluation. It records what the student knows about features they already have.

Sources

  1. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 34 CFR 300.5, 300.6 and 300.324(a)(2)(v): assistive technology devices, services and consideration.
  2. Apple, Google and Microsoft accessibility documentation for magnification, contrast, screen reader, text to speech, dictation and captions.
  3. American Foundation for the Blind. Using technology: built-in accessibility features on computers, tablets and phones.
  4. Expanded Core Curriculum for students who are blind or visually impaired: the assistive technology component (Hatlen, 1996, and later updates).

The example student is made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.