Assistive Technology for Young Children in Special Education: It Makes a Difference | E... - 0 views
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Technology has opened many educational doors to children, particularly to children with disabilities
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Technology is providing more powerful and efficient tools to teachers who work with children with disabilities. These tools enable teachers to offer new and more effective means of learning while individualizing instruction to the broad range of student learning needs.
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Text can be read electronically by a digitized voice synthesizer for a person who is blind. For persons with hearing impairments, amplification devices can filter extraneous noise from the background or pick up an FM signal from a microphone on a teacher's lapel.
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It is critical to understand the implications of this definition to comprehend its effect on children with disabilities in our schools
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t is important to understand that virtually all applications of technology -- tools for children to learn, as well as tools for teachers to provide learning opportunities -- can be defined as assistive technology.
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This is a site where it provides information about technology in the classroom, in this case in special ed classrooms. It is useful because teachers can look at this site and gain knowledge about the gains of using assistive technology.
