Technology and Students with Special Educational Needs
New Opportunities and Future Directions
- 144 pages
- English
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Technology and Students with Special Educational Needs
New Opportunities and Future Directions
About this book
Heterogeneous classes including students with Special Educational Needs (SEN) are increasingly becoming fixtures of the twenty-first century school. As a result, the question of how to devise more effective, innovative and diverse tools has posed a significant challenge for educators and the research community. This collection considers how technology may provide SEN children with greater opportunities to acquire academic skills, while preparing them for a successful transition to adulthood.
Computers, and other new technologies, hold great promise for facilitating the inclusion of SEN individuals into modern society. Precisely because they are characterized by multiple representations of knowledge, computerized learning environments offer effective support tools for the instruction of SEN students faced with barriers that make learning a more complex process.
Yet, despite the blossoming of this field, research on how the use of technology may benefit SEN students is in its early stages. The development of the theoretical knowledge and empirical databases necessary to assess the impact of computers on learners' characteristics and educators' teaching goals lag behind the introduction of the respective technological innovations. To meet this challenge, this volume presents a review of the latest advances in how new technologies and their software may potentially enhance SEN students' performance, in school and out.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of Special Needs.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Citation Information
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Technology and students with special educational needs: new opportunities and future directions
- 1. The effectiveness of assistive technologies for children with special needs: a review of research-based studies
- 2. Open access to living books on the internet: a new chance to bridge the linguistic gap for at-risk preschoolers?
- 3. The effect of activity with e-book on vocabulary and story comprehension: a comparison between kindergarteners at risk of learning disabilities and typically developing kindergarteners
- 4. Meal-Maker: a virtual meal preparation environment for children with cerebral palsy
- 5. Three-dimensions vs. two-dimensions intervention programs: the effect on the mediation level and behavioural aspects of children with intellectual disability
- 6. State-of-the-art of virtual reality technologies for children on the autism spectrum
- 7. Social Storiesâ„¢: a possible theoretical rationale
- 8. Virtual friendships and social distress among adolescents with and without learning disabilities: the subtyping approach
- 9. Fathers’ marital satisfaction and their involvement with their child with disabilities
- Index