Technology in the classroom is making school a lot more enjoyable for students with learning disabilities in the Bruce Grey Catholic School Board.
About 200 of the school boards four thousand students are benefiting from assistive technology such as laptops and specialized learning software.
For Notre Dame student Brett Duncan it has allowed him to achieve and maintain grade level.
He uses a voice to software program and text to speech application to assist with his reading and writing difficulties.
Duncan says this doesn’t mean he has it easy, on the contrary he says students that use assistive technology end up doing more work and spending more time doing it.
Superintendent of Education Catherine Montreuil agrees.
She says a learning disability is a lot like a short circuit in the wiring for learning how to read and write.
She says the assistive technology is like running a bypass around that short circuit allowing students to learn at the same rate and pace as their peers.
Montreuil says some of the brightest students out there have learning disabilities.
She says many students with learning disabilities are highly intelligent they’re just wired different and need a little extra help along the way.