Assistive Technology in the Classroom: Enhancing the School Experiences of Students with Disabilities
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With an emphasis on the integration of assistive technology into the curriculum, this text focuses on how assistive technology can be used in schools to enhance the teaching and learning of students with disabilities. This link between technology and teaching and learning drives the book’s organization as well as its content. It is organized by school-related tasks that students must perform on a daily basis to be successful — reading, writing, practicing academic skills, and communicating with their teachers and peers – and presents descriptions of technology-based solutions to the obstacles students with disabilities face in completing these tasks. Since being able to access computers is one major barrier, the text features a section on making computers accessible to students with a wide range of disabilities. A companion web site offers up-to-date information on product names, vendors, web site addresses, and other time-sensitive material.
Section I: Benefits of Computer Use in Special Education:Chapter 1: Introduction to Text and to Assistive TechnologyChapter 2: Computer as a Writing Tool and Organizing ToolChapter 3: Computer as a Reading ToolChapter 4: Computer as an Instructional Tool: Enhancing Teaching & LearningChapter 5: Enhancing CommunicationSection II: Access to ComputersChapter 6: Providing Access to Computers: Using What You Have:Chapter 7: Assistive Technology for Computer Access:Chapter 8: Issues in Selection of Access Method(s)Section III: Augmentative CommunicationChapter 9: Issues in Selecting/Designing a Student’s Augmentative Communication SystemChapter 10: Low-Tech Approaches to Teaching Early Communication & Emergent LiteracyChapter 11: Integrating Augmentative Communication in the ClassroomSection IV: Making It HappenChapter 12: Implementation of Assistive Technology in P-12 SchoolsChapter 13: Implementation of Assistive Technology in CollegeChapter 14: Web AccessChapter 15: Assistive Technology in Daily LivingEpilogue Chapter 16: What’s on the Horizon?
