Technology Tools to Address Visual-Spatial or Motor Control Difficulties

Students with disabilities may have difficulty with writing numbers, aligning digits and creating visual representations. This becomes very problematic in mathematics since it's crucial for numbers to be in the right order to get the correct answer. Thankfully there are educational applications that help individuals, with visual-spatial or motor control difficulties, solve math problems!

• MathPad - talking math worksheet program that enables students to perform arithmetic computations with whole numbers on the computer. 
• Virtual Pencil - designed for pencil impaired students (blind, motor impairments, or learning disabilities). The program offers speech feedback that reads problems and provides enough information so that students who cannot see can understand the position of digits and can navigate.
• Number Navigator - does not have speech or screening, it's a simple "math processor" to enter and solve basic math problems on the computer. Also, it's a free program!
• Scientific Notebook - high-end application that does more than allow users to write equations; it is designed to solve equations! With this application, students can work with calculus, vector calculus, transformations, and matrices.

Dell, A., Newton, D., & Petroff, J. (2012). Assistive technology in the classroom. (2nd ed., pp. 3-22). Upper Saddle River: Pearson.