Math & Science Technology & Dysgraphia

[jfla]

Students with dysgraphia have a wide assortment of products to meet the challenges of writing. But what technical support is available to meet their needs in mathematics or science?

I thought that I would start a thread aimed at developing a great resource list of accommodations which are available to support students in the field of mathematics and science. What accommodations are available for the student from early elementary through adulthood? What programs, products and procedures do you know of?

[jfla]

Once a student is past simple + - x division, keyboarding can become difficult. agh!! I don't even know how to make a division symbol on a keyboard! google help!! Get the problem?

Higher Mathematics:

LaTeX

Wikipedia definition:
LaTeX (pronounced /ˈleɪtɛk/ or /ˈleɪtɛx/) is a document markup language and document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program. LaTeX is most widely used by mathematicians, scientists, engineers, philosophers, scholars in academia and the commercial world, and other professionals.

What that means is that using a QWERTY keyboard, the user learns a new language which will produce math symbols and numbers that look like a traditional math proof. So for each symbol a specific sequence of text is required to produce it. The end result is a computer document which can be printed out.

Although my college aged son can produce math proofs that are legible, the amount of time it takes is quite long. So he is learning LaTeX with the hopes that eventually it will be faster than writing it out by hand.