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Fearon, Bec – Adults Learning, 2008
For nearly two years a group of 12 people, who are service-users from L8 and Fazakerley Resource Centres for adults with learning disabilities, had been working with artist Leo Fitzmaurice on WILD!, a project investigating what contemporary art meant to them. Part of the Bluecoat Connect programme, run with support from Liverpool Biennial and…
Descriptors: Intellectual Freedom, Learning Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Accessibility (for Disabled)
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Jones, Linda – IALL Journal, 1997
Discusses barriers individuals face in using computers in the classroom and the importance of eliminating these barriers. The article notes that visual, mobility, and hearing impairments are the disabilities most often encountered in school labs and that numerous software and hardware tools are available to help individuals with these disabilities…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Centers, Computer Software, Hearing Impairments
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Hogan, Bryan J. – International Journal of Special Education, 2004
Within most educational institutes there are a substantial number of students with varying physical and mental disabilities. These might range from difficulty in reading to difficulty in attending the institute. Whatever their disability, it places a barrier between them and their education. In the past few years there have been rapid and striking…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Technology, Assistive Technology, Physical Mobility
Florida State Postsecondary Education Commission, Tallahassee. – 1986
This third supplement to the Florida master plan for postsecondary education considers resources and barriers to education for disabled students and offers 21 recommendations. To provide a foundation to discuss the needs of disabled students, characteristics of the following major functional impairments are described: hearing impairment, learning…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accessibility (for Disabled), College Planning, College Students
California Community Colleges, Sacramento. Office of the Chancellor. – 1990
A statewide network of High Tech Centers for the Disabled (HTCD) was developed to increase disabled student retention in the California community colleges by providing student access to computer technology and training, as well as an array of training and technical support services for community college faculty. This report presents a brief…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Community Colleges, Computer Science Education
Murphy, Harry J.; Loving, Steven D. – 1987
In the future, postsecondary institutions must respond in nontraditional ways to disabled students' needs for physical accessibility to campus facilities and cultural accessibility to campus activities, both social and academic. The development of innovative services will require an entrepreneurial approach and should look upon the provision of…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Art Activities, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Computer Uses in Education