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  1. Assistive Technology by Eugena Williams EE 505, Technology and Education

  2. Assistive Technology • Assistive technology is any device, equipment, or software that aids someone with a disability in their everyday life whether at school or home. • Assistive technology can be low-techlike a pencil grip or high-tech like a computer (PBS, 2015).

  3. Laws for Assistive Technology Technology Related Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities Act of 1988 • Provided federal funds to states for training and delivery of assistive technology devices. • Required states and territories to develop training programs for technology to be used be individuals with disabilities regardless of the age. • Defined assistive technology and the availability and quality of the devices (Reed, 2000).

  4. Laws for Assistive Technology Assistive Technology Act of 1998 • An amendment that stated assistive technology is valuable to individuals with disabilities. • Increased funding to develop permanent statewide programs to give technology training for individuals with disabilities (Reed, 2000).

  5. Laws for Assistive Technology Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 1990 and 1997 • School district is responsible for providing assistive technology to its students with disabilities. • The assistive technology should aid the student with disability in and outside of school (Reed, 2000).

  6. Assistive Technology for the seeing impaired Technology that helps remove barriers so students with a seeing impairment can see like their peers. They are able to do homework, research, and read ( American Foundation for the Blind, 2015).

  7. Assistive technology for the hearing impaired Technology that is used in situations where listening is required ( Hearing Loss Association of America, 2015).

  8. Assistive Technology for Learning disabled Technology device that compensates, bypass, or move around a student’s specific learning disability (Standberry & Raskind, 2009).

  9. Assistive Technology for physically disabled • Technology used to assist students that have limited or no mobility.

  10. References American Foundation for the Blind. (2015). Assistive technology. American Foundation for the Blind. Retrieved from www.afb.org. Hearing Loss Association of America. (2015). Hearing assistive technology. Hearing Loss Association of America. Retrieved from www.hearingloss.org. PBS broadcasting. (2015). Assistive technology. PBS broadcasting. Retrieved from www.pbs.org. Reed. (2000). Assistive technology legislation. Assistive Technology Training Online Project. Retrieved from http://atto.buffalo.edu. Standberry,K., Raskind, M.H. (2009). Assistive technology for kids with learning disabilities: an overview. Reading Rockets. Retrieved from www.readingrockets.org.

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