Making decisions about assistive technology with infants and toddlers.: An article from: Topics in Early Childhood Special Education
Making decisions about assistive technology with infants and toddlers.: An article from: Topics in Early Childhood Special Education
This digital document is an article from Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, published by Thomson Gale on March 22, 2006. The length of the article is 5486 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article i
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Handwriting Tech Tip
This week’s Tech Tip teaches about various assistive technology devices that can aid with handwriting.
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Nicholas Goldsberry is a senior at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, majoring in International Studies and minoring in Spanish and music recording. His connection with Easter Seals Crossroads dates back to high school, “where they got me the necessary equipment to succeed in the college environment.” The agency has opened a world of opportunities for Nicholas, including a Butler International Studies internship at Eli Lilly and Company. (Using the JAWS for Windows screen reader, he successfully interacted with suppliers using a database system and e-mail). Nicholas’s final remarks are devoted to the free services of INDATA, notably demonstrations of many technology devices.
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Hearing’s Desire to become Deaf
Hello! I would like to share this article when I read for pleasure and was surprised that made me said, “WHAT?”. It was really a mind-blowing topic, “A Compelling Desire for Deafness” written by David Veale that was published in the summer of 2006 in the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. I found it intriguing about how the article described the cases that focused on Self-Injured Behavior (SIB) and one of them identified a group of hearing people who wanted to become deaf. It allowed me to analyze difference cases that described how hearing wanted to become deaf as there were different ways. For example, there is a hearing woman who wears a cotton wool dabbed with oil then placed it in her both ears so that noises can be prevented and it allows her to focus on learning signs easily. It is rationale for one to do it in order to focus on signs without the interference of noises. I recalled my former student teacher putting cotton wool in his ears that he wanted to focus entirely on signs and not to be distracted by noises so that he could learn signs better. It made sense to me but for this woman it was a different case since she wanted to become deaf. A psychologist in Great Britain who studied this case that a woman who wanted to become deaf concluded that the reason was because she wanted to gain her identity for herself so that she could be accepted by the Deaf community. Now here are several interesting questions to think about: Will those who are recognized …
This week’s Tech Tip discusses some assistive technology devices available for mobility impairment.
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A survey on the need and funding for assistive technology devices and services in Hong Kong.: An article from: Journal of Disability Policy Studies Reviews
A survey on the need and funding for assistive technology devices and services in Hong Kong.: An article from: Journal of Disability Policy Studies
This digital document is an article from Journal of Disability Policy Studies, published by Pro-Ed on December 22, 2003. The length of the article is 3552 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivere
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A review of evidence on practices for teaching young children to use assistive technology devices.: An article from: Topics in Early Childhood Special Education
This digital document is an article from Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, published by Thomson Gale on March 22, 2006. The length of the article is 7406 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article i
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Exploring the Text to Speech Feature on Amazon’s Kindle
Mike Marotta, ATP, walks us through setting the Text to Speech feature of the Amazon Kindle.