Connecting to Learn: Educational and Assistive Technology for People With Disabilities / Edition 1

by Marcia J. Scherer PhD

Overview

Dr. Scherer, author of the highly acclaimed Living in the State of Stuck: How Technology Impacts the Lives of People with Disabilities, explores the way disabilities, especially those involving the senses, can lead to isolation and a lack of "connectedness," and how this in turn leads to learning difficulties. She then provides a step-by-step model for assessing and evaluating individual students on their needs and finding the right technology to help each student.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781557989826
Publisher:	American Psychological Association
Publication date:	09/15/2003
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	299
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Marcia J. Scherer, PhD, is director of the Institute for Matching Persons and Technology in Webster, NY. She also is associate professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Rochester Medical Center, and senior research associate, International Center for Hearing and Speech Research (a joint program of the University of Rochester and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf/Rochester Institute of Technology). She received a PhD and an MPH from the University of Rochester.
 

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

I. Introduction

1. The Fundamental Sense of Connectedness

II. Learner Characteristics and Preference

1. The Effects of Loss of Hearing or Vision on the Learner and Learning
2. The Personal Meaning of Hearing or Vision Loss

III. Environments for Learning

1. The Move From Separate to Inclusive Education
2. Contrasting Inclusive With Exclusive Education
3. Technology Made Inclusive Education Possible

IV. Technologies for Access to Information and for Instructional Delivery

1. Computers: Mixing Assistive, Information, and Access Technologies
2. Desirable and Less Desirable Effects of Educational Technologies
3. Getting Going on Learning

V. Matching Learners With the Most Appropriate Technologies and Strategies for Their Use

1. Individual Learner Preferences and Needs
2. The Matching Person and Technology Model

VI. Connecting to Learn

1. Bringing It All Together for the Individual User

Appendices

1. Matching Person and Technology Process and Samples of the Assessment Forms
2. Copy of Statement of Need Form
3. Checklists for Educational Technology Evaluation and Selection
4. Finding and Funding Assistive Technologies
5. Resources

Glossary

References

Author Index

Subject Index

About the Author