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Download full textAmerican Council on Education, Washington, DC. HEATH Resource Center. – 1995
This brochure presents an overview of adaptive computing technology and how it can help people with disabilities participate more fully in society. It defines key terms (such as "disability" and "access barriers") and briefly summarizes provisions of major laws: the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Technology-Related Assistance Act,…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Uses in Education
Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron, OH. – 1995
The Preschool Technology Training Project was designed to develop and demonstrate a regional training model on the applications of assistive technology for preschoolers with disabilities. The goal of the training was to enable preschool special education teachers, related services personnel, and parents of young children with disabilities to…
Descriptors: Activities, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Class Activities, Classroom Environment
Roehl, Janet E., Ed. – 1984
These proceedings provide 30 papers from a conference to highlight a frontier area in serving the disabled--microcomputers--which blends two disciplines, vocational rehabilitation and special education. Keynote addresses are "High Tech/High Touch: Making Good on the Promise" (Fenderson); "Curbcuts and Computers: Providing Access to Computers and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs
American Council on Education, Washington, DC. HEATH Resource Center. – 1994
This paper describes programs and resources that focus on access of postsecondary students with disabilities to computers and other forms of technology. Increased access to technological devices and services is provided to students with disabilities under the Technology-Related Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities Act (Tech Act). Section…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accessibility (for Disabled), Assistive Devices (for Disabled), College Programs
Georgia State Dept. of Human Resources, Atlanta. Div. of Rehabilitation Services. – 1991
This packet of materials was originally intended for participants in a 1991 conference on assistive technology for the disabled. After a detailed listing of the conference schedule, individual sections provide abstracts, biographical sketches, and summaries concerning the following conference topics: blending, computer labs, family, grants and…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Uses in Education
National Council on Disability, Washington, DC. – 1991
This report examines effects of technology-supported programs on students with disabilities at the postsecondary level, including issues of access to technology and alternatives for acquiring assistive technology devices and services. After an introduction, the first chapter presents the report's recommendations, which deal with full technological…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Assistive Devices (for Disabled), College Students, Colleges
Summers, Edward G.; And Others – B. C. Journal of Special Education, 1986
The article describes the production process and contents of a two-hour videotape illustrating microcomputer applications with severely physically disabled adults in a long-term residential hospital in British Columbia. Software, special adaptive technology, and a program to train physically disabled adults to work in the microcomputer industry…
Descriptors: Adults, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Case Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction
