The website that Maria bookmarked, su11web20education - Autism- Breaking Down Barriers, caught my attention. There are more and more children being diagnosed with Austism each year. I have become familiar with some of the characteristics of the disability within the last three years due to three students entering our ec program at school. It is amazing what technology has done for any disabled individual. I had no idea there was a program to help autistic individuals understand emotions. The web designers are now using applications to help these folks focus on webpages by making fonts more plain and developing pages less cluttered. I checked out the site that provides games for autistic individuals to learn how to understand emotions. This is very beneficial for these individuals to function appropriately within the social realms.

Describes how the JAWS is used for the visually impaired individuals.

" Assistive Technology " " Assistive Computer Devices Information provided by Disabled World - Published: 2009-02-17 A screen reader is a software application that attempts to identify and interpret what is being displayed on the computer screen. This interpretation is then represented to the user with text-to-speech, sound icons, or a braille output.

Get started today working with all your Microsoft and IBM Lotus® Symphony™ applications using JAWS®, the world's most popular screen reader. Developed for computer users whose vision loss prevents them from seeing screen content, JAWS reads aloud what's on the PC screen.