New information technology in the education of disabled children and adults - 32

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 possibilities of using information technology in the education of the disabled.

Commencing with an assessment of the learning problems faced by disabled people, it goes on to look at the scope of information technology and how it has been used for the education of students of all ages, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States.