VH Technology Evaluation Checklist

Name:
Age:
Grade:

Change Placement: (what grades will student move to a  new school)

Future Goals: (what are the student's goals for the future)

Future Placement (where will the student be in 1, 3,and 5 years)

Typing Rate

• Repeat same sentence
• Generate own information
• Gross words per minute
• Errors-keyboarding
• Errors-spelling

Brailling Rate on braille writer and any electronic device

• Repeat same sentence
• Generate own information
• Gross words per minute
• Errors-Brailling
• Errors-spelling

Keyboarding skills (obtain typing information on familiar keyboard and migration keyboard)

• Number Row
• Shift Number Row
• Punctuation and Shift Punctuation
• Function Keys
• Numeric Keypad
• Modifiers-Control, ALT (Command Key for the Macintosh)
• Modifiers-Caps Lock, Shift
• Movement-Tab, Home, End, Arrows, Page Down, Page Up
• Others-Backspace, Insert, Delete, Print Screen, Pause, Scroll Lock

Reading Rate

• Regular
• Large Print
• CCTV
  • Without filters
  • With filters
• Low Vision Aids
• Computer Screen
  • Without filters
  • With filters
• Paper Braille
• Refreshable Braille

Reading distance

• CCTV
  • Without filters
  • With filters
• Computer Screen
  • Without filters
  • With filters

Listening

• Auditory Discrimination
• Sentence Repetition
• Auditory Comprehension

Describe the devices (synthesizer) used, learning style, motor planning, following directions, memory, time involved