Summit School is located in Montreal,
we have 3 campuses.
We service students with special needs,
primarily with intellectual disabilities
with or without autism.
It's a free public school.
We're quite specialized, obviously,
for working with students with
special needs. We have multiple
professional working with us.
We all work together in an
interdisciplinary model to help the
students achieve their best potential.
This app that we're working on is a
literacy app. So it's going to help
students that have specific literacy
needs that are struggling with
traditional method of instructions.
So we're looking at kids, it could be of
starting ages of 6 all the way up to 21
It's primarily for students that
have difficulty reading printed text.
In classrooms, teachers have worksheets,
there's workbooks.
The students who have struggling
reading skills might not be able to do
the worksheets independently.
SnapType Pro App is an app
that is used for people that have
fine motor difficulties and that
can't write with a pen and paper.
So what the student is able to do
is take a snapshot of the worksheet,
here's a pre-loaded one,
and fill in the blanks with using text.
The problem about this app, it only meets
the needs of students that have
fine motor difficulties and are using it
as a writing tool. What would be great
is if it had the capability of reading back
what was taken a picture of.
The other app that we use is called
ClaroPDF. ClaroPDF, it's a combination of
the reading capabilities and the typing
capabilities but it is very busy
in terms of an interface
and our students struggle with using it
independently. So when we're looking to
increase independence, this is actually
bringing them down because it's having the
teacher to have to manipulate the buttons
for the students.
So our goal is to design a tool that's
easy to use, where a student can take
a snapshot of the worksheet and have it
read back to them and also be able to
input information on the worksheet.
So it combines both the reading and
writing aspect, but in a simplified manner
according to their specific needs.
The primary focus of the app would be
the interface and making sure it's
simple and stripped down of
unnecessary options for the students.