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Technology in the Classroom: Exploring the Use of Universal Design for Learning to Support Students with Specific Learning Disabilities inside the Inclusion Classroom
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Batiste, Maurice L. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The very first federal law that affected a student with special needs was the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EHA: Public Law 94-142) established in 1975 by the United States Congress. PL 94-142 required all schools that received federal funds to accept students with physical and mental disabilities and to educate these children in the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Students with Disabilities, Equal Education
Students with Disabilities: Opportunities and Challenges for Colleges and Universities
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Lee, Barbara A. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2014
Data collected by the US Department of Education in 2008 indicate that US colleges and universities enrolled 707,000 students with disabilities, divided roughly equally between public and private institutions. The survey found that 31 percent of these students reported learning disabilities, 18 percent ADD or ADHD, 15 percent mental illness or…
Descriptors: Disabilities, College Students, Student Needs, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities)
Assistive and Educational Technology Standards and Teacher Competencies in Relation to Evidence-Based Practice: Identification and Classification of the Literature
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Dalton, Elizabeth M.; Roush, Susan E. – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2010
The federal No Child Left Behind Act mandates the application of the principles of evidence-based practice (EBP) in U.S. education. The purpose of this study was to identify available assistive technology (AT) and educational technology (ET) literature that relates to standards and teacher competencies, and to categorize that literature in…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Educational Technology, Standards, Teacher Competencies