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.