Learning Disabilities and Computers references developed in EDU 360

LEARNING DISABILITIES COMPILED BY JENNIFER POHLMAN

1.  The Computer in Education - A Critical Perspective  1984
     Editor   Douglas Sloane
     Computers enrich the world of children at any age.  This is especially
true for children with disabilities who are often enriched by computers.
Computers expand access to the physical and social world for children with
disabilities.  Computers bring them closer to many aspects of life that may
seem unusually unreachable to them.

2.  Educational Technology - Its Creation, Development and Cross - Cultural
Transfer  Volume 4  1987
     Editors  R. Murray Thomas and Victor N. Kobayashi
     New technology is helping those with special needs in thousands of
classrooms around the country.  The disabled, deaf, blind, and orthopedically
handicapped are finding it easier to participate in classroom activities, even
from their very own homes.

3.  The Children's Machine  1993
     Editor  Seymour Papert
     Papert writes about his experiences with children in the classroom using
computers.  He writes of on boy with learning disabilities and the dramatic
change in his life once he started using computers.  The only downfall was
that the boy no longer enjoyed the actual classroom.  He would rather just
learn from the computer.

4.  Computers in Education  5-13  1988
     Editors  Ann Jones and Peter Scrimshaw
     Computers help the hearing impaired by providing a vivid picture.
Sentences are scrolled across the screen and children are forced to read and
learn those words.  For the visually impaired, music and sounds help in
learning.  Those with learning disabilities such as ADD and dyslexia are also
offered a large variety of learning tools on the computer designed especially
for those particular disabilities.