基本説明
Presents a comprehensive and highly readable approach to matching the right technology with students with disabilities.
Full Description
Dr. Scherer, author of the highly acclaimed Living in the State of Stuck: How Technology Impacts the Lives of People with Disabilities, explores the way disabilities, especially those involving the senses, can lead to isolation and a lack of "connectedness," and how this in turn leads to learning difficulties. She then provides a step-by-step model for assessing and evaluating individual students on their needs and finding the right technology to help each student.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
I. Introduction
The Fundamental Sense of Connectedness
II. Learner Characteristics and Preference
The Effects of Loss of Hearing or Vision on the Learner and Learning
The Personal Meaning of Hearing or Vision Loss
III. Environments for Learning
The Move From Separate to Inclusive Education
Contrasting Inclusive With Exclusive Education
Technology Made Inclusive Education Possible
IV. Technologies for Access to Information and for Instructional Delivery
Computers: Mixing Assistive, Information, and Access Technologies
Desirable and Less Desirable Effects of Educational Technologies
Getting Going on Learning
V. Matching Learners With the Most Appropriate Technologies and Strategies for Their Use
Individual Learner Preferences and Needs
The Matching Person and Technology Model
VI. Connecting to Learn
Bringing It All Together for the Individual User
Appendices
Matching Person and Technology Process and Samples of the Assessment Forms
Copy of Statement of Need Form
Checklists for Educational Technology Evaluation and Selection
Finding and Funding Assistive Technologies
Resources
Glossary
References
Author Index
Subject Index
About the Author
