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ERIC Number: EJ750582
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-Dec
Pages: 5
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0046-9157
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AT Advocates Tackle Attitudes & Education towards Learning Disabilities
Williams, John M.
Exceptional Parent, v36 n12 p39-43 Dec 2006
Learning disabilities are present in 10 percent of the population, and the condition is defined as, "A disorder in basic psychological processes involved in understanding or using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell or use mathematical calculations". In this article, the author focuses on the efforts of AT advocates in providing digital educational materials to students with learning disabilities and the educational battle that rages between teachers unaware of assistive technology products and students using assistive technology products in the classroom. The author also discusses a digital talking book called Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY), having a set of digital files that can provide information to people with print disabilities. The author concludes that despite the advances, the dual goals of seeing and end to educating teachers on the awareness of the products and educating them on the capacity of DAISY will never end. The technologies are changing too quickly to match the awareness.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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