The Sticky Note

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The Sticky Note

  • October 16, 2024
  • Posted by: Caitlin McCallum
  • Category: Wow Story
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We live in a world filled with technology. We use it in our lives every day. Assistive Technology is also vital in special education. Students using devices to communicate, a pen reading words to a student, audiobooks allowing for better comprehension. But sometimes all it takes is sticky notes!

I’ve been working with a student going on 4 years now. He is a second grader with Apraxia of Speech, which makes it difficult to speak because of problems with brain pathways that plan speech movements. He has trouble saying what he wants to say correctly and consistently. Reading—which requires even more sound processing in the brain—can be a bear at times. Writing—which requires sound input and then phoneme matching output—can be straight up defeating. Needless to say, writing is not his favorite activity.

This year, checking comprehension is becoming particularly important. Orally checking his comprehension works, but I want to see independent proof! Enter the sticky notes. With his different colored, transparent sticky notes he can go back to find text evidence and “highlight” it! He enjoys the break from writing, and I get my proof!

~written by Darla Beckwith, LSEM Teacher at Grace Lutheran School in Jacksonville, FL