1st Edition

New Information Technology in the Education of Disabled Children and Adults

284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1985. Information technology can offer huge benefits to the disabled. It can help many disabled people to overcome barriers of time and space and to a much greater extent it can help them to overcome barriers of communication. In that way new information technology offers opportunities to neutralise the worst effects of many kinds of disablement. This book reviews the... Read more

Preface;  Part One: Learning Problems of Disabled People;  1. Communication, Learning and Disabled People  2. Learning Problems of Physically-disabled People  3. Learning Problems of Blind and Partially-sighted People  4. Learning Problems of Deaf People  5. Learning Problems of Speech-impaired People;  Part Two: New Information Technology for Learning;  6. What is New Information Technology?  7. What Can New Information Technology Do?  8. Devices and Systems;  Part Three: Experience in Using the Technology;  9. Experience Among Physically-disabled People  10. Experience Among Blind and Partially-sighted People  11. Experience Among Deaf People  12. Experience Among Speech-impaired People;  Part Four: Issues;  13. Educational Issues  14. Social Issue  15. Political Issues  16. Economic Issues  17. Technical Issues;  Part Five: The Future;  18. The Next Five Years  19. To AD 2000;  References;  Index

Biography

Professor Tom Vincent MBE had over 20 years experience developing multimedia enabling technologies at the Open University. Received the BBC In-Touch/Blackhall award for a computer-based workstation for blind people. Co-founded the Knowledge Media Institute.