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Blackhurst, A. Edward; Lahm, Elizabeth A.; Harrison, Elizabeth M.; Chandler, Wanda G. – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1999
Describes a model framework to guide decision making about the use of technology to facilitate the development of competencies that people with disabilities need to make a successful transition from school to various adult environments. Legal mandates and types of technology are described. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Appropriate Technology, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Decision Making, Disabilities
Espe, James O. – 1998
This paper describes an inservice training program, developed collaboratively by the Idaho Assistive Technology Project and the Idaho State Department of Education, that is designed to increase the expertise of Idaho's special educators in the area of assistive technology. The lack of training Idaho's special educators have had in assistive…
Descriptors: Appropriate Technology, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Disabilities, Distance Education
Goldware, Marjorie; Silver, Marsha – 1998
This paper discusses issues central to communicative/cognitive development in children with visual impairments who also have other disabilities, and presents a multi-modal model of augmentative alternative communication delivery that includes tangible symbols, language input strategies, voice output communication devices, software programs with…
Descriptors: Appropriate Technology, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Cognitive Development
Education Development Center, Newton, MA. National Center to Improve Practice. – 1998
This videotape recording (20 minutes) and print profile illustrate how educators are using technology to help students with disabilities succeed in science. In the first segment of the video, several elementary classrooms in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are visited where students with and without disabilities carry out inquiry-based science with the…
Descriptors: Appropriate Technology, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Computer Uses in Education, Disabilities