ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY: Supporting Learners in Inclusive Classrooms
Andrew zooms into his seventh grade classroom using his power wheelchair.
He rolls
up to his universally designed computer desk, turns on the computer using his head
enabler, and clicks...
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ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY: Supporting Learners in Inclusive Classrooms
Andrew zooms into his seventh grade classroom using his power wheelchair.
He rolls
up to his universally designed computer desk, turns on the computer using his head
enabler, and clicks the electronic mouse for e-mail.
Even though his
English/Language Arts class doesn t start for a few more minutes, he needs to check
his e-mail to see what the journalism sponsor of the school newspaper thought about
his latest article on the proposed school dress code.
As he begins responding to the e-mail using word prediction software, he thinks
back to what life had been like when he entered school as a kid with cerebral
palsy.
Although he cannot recall everything about the beginning of school, he
remembers the long hours of therapy and lying on the mat with adults looming over
him.
Since then, year-by-year and little-by-little, he learned that he could do what all
the other kids did, just in a different way.
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