Connecting to Learn Educational and Assistive

Dr. Scherer, author of the highly acclaimed Living in the State of Stuck: How Technology Impacts the Lives of People with Disabilities, explores the way disabilities, especially those involving the senses, can lead to isolation and a lack of "connectedness," and how this in turn leads to learning difficulties. She then provides a step-by-step model for assessing and evaluating individual students on their needs and finding the right technology to help each student.

Marcia J. Scherer is director of the Institute for Matching Person and Technology in Webster, New York. She is also associate professor of physical medicine and rehabiliation at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

Foreword

ix

Acknowledgments

xiii

I. Introduction

1

(20)

Chapter 1. The Fundamental Sense of Connectedness

3

(18)

II. Learner Characteristics and Preferences

21

(36)

Chapter 2. The Effects of Loss of Hearing or Vision on the Learner and Learning

23

(18)

Chapter 3. The Personal Meaning of Hearing or Vision Loss

41

(16)

III. Environments for Learning

57

(50)

Chapter 4. The Move From Separate to Inclusive Education

59

(14)

Chapter 5. Contrasting Inclusive With Exclusive Education

73

(18)

Chapter 6. Technology Made Inclusive Education Possible

91

(16)

IV. Technologies for Access to Information and for Instructional Delivery

107

(52)

Chapter 7. Computers: Mixing Assistive, Information, and Access Technologies

109

(16)

Chapter 8. Desirable and Less Desirable Effects of Educational Technologies

125

(22)

Chapter 9. Getting Going on Learning

147

(12)

V. Matching Learners With the Most Appropriate Technologies and Strategies for Their Use

159

(44)

Chapter 10. Individual Learner Preferences and Needs

161

(22)

Chapter 11. The Matching Person and Technology Model

183

(20)

VI. Connecting to Learn

203

(22)

Chapter 12. Bringing It All Together for the Individual User

205

(20)

Appendix A. Matching Person and Technology Process and Samples of the Assessment Forms

225

(8)

Appendix B. Copy of Statement of Need Form

233

(10)

Appendix C. Checklists for Educational Technology Evaluation and Selection

243

(8)

Appendix D. Finding and Funding Assistive Technologies

251

(2)

Appendix E. Resources

253

(8)

Glossary

261

(4)

References

265

(16)

Author Index

281

(4)

Subject Index

285

(14)

About the Author

299

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Connecting to Learn Educational and Assistive Technology for People With Disabilities

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