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The Ultimate Guide to Assistive Technology in Special Education: Resources for Education, Intervention, and Rehabilitation
Author(s): Joan L. Green (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 1 April 2011
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 232 pages
- ISBN-10: 1593637195
- ISBN-13: 9781593637194
Book Description
Families, teachers, and therapists who are searching for information about how to use technology to help individuals who struggle with communication, literacy, and learning will benefit from the wealth of practical, well-organized information in The Ultimate Guide to Assistive Technology in Special Education. The book presents a broad overview of the uses of assistive technology before helping readers zero in on powerful, cutting-edge technology tools they can use to improve students’ areas of weakness as well as to compensate for them. Readers are introduced to an exciting world in which assistive technology, educational technology, and mainstream technology are merging. The book focuses on software, tools, devices, and online resources that can help students with everyday tasks such as speaking, understanding, reading, writing, cognition, and memory. Along the way, readers will discover new ways to use everyday items such as mainstream software, cell phones, and calendars to assist students with special needs.
Editorial Reviews
Review
This guide is a well-organized resource that provides information about a variety of tools available to professionals assisting individuals who have a communication disorder. This is a great guide for anyone; and it is so user-friendly and organized that it would be extremely useful for those looking into becoming experts in technology. ,Barbara Fernandes,GeekSLP.com, 5/21/11
Green’s resources span the domains of communication-verbal expression, auditory comprehension, reading and comprehension, written expression- as well as cognition and memory, and provide something for every platform (web-based, PC/Mac, and an impressive array of specific iPod and iPad apps). There is really something here that can help all clients on your caseload, as the resources span age ranges and levels of ability, from those who require switches to those who would benefit from high-level interactive websites.,Sean Sweeney, CCC-SLP,SpeechTechie, 9/19/11
Families, teachers, and therapists who are searching for information about how to use tehcnology to help individuals who struggle with communication, literacy, and learning will benefit from practical, well-organized information in this book. Green presents a broad overview of the uses of assistive technology before helping readers zero in on powerful, cutting-edge technology tools they can use to improve students’ areas of weakness as well as to compensate for them.,The Education Digest, 10/1/11
