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Summit School is located in Montreal,

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we have 3 campuses.

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We service students with special needs,

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primarily with intellectual disabilities

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with or without autism.

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It's a free public school.

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We're quite specialized, obviously,

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for working with students with

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special needs. We have multiple

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professional working with us.

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We all work together in an

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interdisciplinary model to help the

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students achieve their best potential.

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This app that we're working on is a

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literacy app. So it's going to help

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students that have specific literacy

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needs that are struggling with

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traditional method of instructions.

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So we're looking at kids, it could be of

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starting ages of 6 all the way up to 21

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It's primarily for students that

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have difficulty reading printed text.

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In classrooms, teachers have worksheets,

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there's workbooks.

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The students who have struggling

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reading skills might not be able to do

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the worksheets independently.

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SnapType Pro App is an app

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that is used for people that have

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fine motor difficulties and that

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can't write with a pen and paper.

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So what the student is able to do

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is take a snapshot of the worksheet,

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here's a pre-loaded one,

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and fill in the blanks with using text.

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The problem about this app, it only meets

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the needs of students that have

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fine motor difficulties and are using it

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as a writing tool. What would be great

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is if it had the capability of reading back

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what was taken a picture of.[br]

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The other app that we use is called [br]

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ClaroPDF. ClaroPDF, it's a combination of [br]

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the reading capabilities and the typing

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capabilities but it is very busy

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in terms of an interface

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and our students struggle with using it [br]

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independently. So when we're looking to

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increase independence, this is actually

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bringing them down because it's having the

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teacher to have to manipulate the buttons

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for the students.

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So our goal is to design a tool that's[br]

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easy to use, where a student can take

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a snapshot of the worksheet and have it

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read back to them and also be able to

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input information on the worksheet.

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So it combines both the reading and

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writing aspect, but in a simplified manner

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according to their specific needs.

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The primary focus of the app would be

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the interface and making sure it's

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simple and stripped down of

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unnecessary options for the students.