Rerouting
Migraines, the slow realization that accessibility is not the online norm, and a surprisingly stressful appointment kept us from getting much done last week. And that's okay. One of the benefits of homeschooling is that we can do less during a bad week instead of getting behind. Ableism can hurt people by acting like they have no disability or by acting like their disability is the most important thing about them. Autistic people generally have communication problems. Khan Academy has a solid looking intro to JavaScript class. One of their pedagogical goals is to make every student type every semicolon to help students remember syntax details so they disabled pasting into their exercises and only accept direct keyboard input. That's reasonable for those students who type easily. Speech-to-text or dictation tools are very useful for people who have trouble typing but can speak sufficiently well. When one uses an application that doesn't natively take input from one's ...