Assistive Technology in the Classroom: Enhancing the School Experiences of Students with Disabilities » (New Edition)

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 Technology

Chapter 2: Computer as a Writing Tool and Organizing Tool

Chapter 3: Computer as a Reading Tool

Chapter 4: Computer as an Instructional Tool: Enhancing Teaching & Learning

Chapter 5: Enhancing Communication

Section II: Access to Computers

Chapter 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 Communication

Chapter 9: Issues in Selecting/Designing a Student’s Augmentative Communication System

Chapter 10: Low-Tech Approaches to Teaching Early Communication & Emergent Literacy

Chapter 11: Integrating Augmentative Communication in the Classroom

Section IV: Making It Happen

Chapter 12: Implementation of Assistive Technology in P-12 Schools

Chapter 13: Implementation of Assistive Technology in College

Chapter 14: Web Access

Chapter 15: Assistive Technology in Daily Living

Epilogue

Chapter 16: What’s on the Horizon?