The article discusses the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts and the academic accommodations that it is making for blind students such as Wayne Pearcey. Pearcey discusses how he meets class requirements for written assignments and exams. The school has created a computer lab in ...
This book maintains the currency of knowledge for engineers and health workers who develop devices and services for people with sight loss, and is an excellent source of reference for students of assistive technology and rehabilitation. 展开 关键词:...
The special education classes at Hialeah Middle School include students who are mentally handicapped, deaf, autistic, blind, and physically impaired. The school selected Techno's DaVinci, a unique tabletop machine, suitable for a wide range of applications, including model making, wood-working, ...
Themselves blind individuals and trainers of the print impaired, Calvo and lead developer, Matt Campbell, understand the challenges teachers face in accommodating students with disabilities. Under this initiative, teachers and parents can trust the strength of the company's commercial product to help ...
Alireza Darvishy is a professor in the area of ICT Accessibility at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) in Switzerland. He has been involved in this topic for more than 20 years. After completing his studies as o...
Nowadays, technology is developing rapidly. The middle class has experienced technology such as smartphones, but unfortunately, there are still many applications that are not friendly for people with disabilities. The closest example is in Indonesia, where people with disabilities still receive less att...
In Kenya blind students and those with poor eyesight were still using Braille(布莱叶盲文)books for their studies until recently. But Kenyan schools for the blind are now beginning to use technology that provides material in an audible(
Zachary Muasya was born blind. He is now one of the school’s teachers. He has been teaching the students how to use the technology for about two years now.He says the technology opens up possibilities that canlevel the playing fieldfor his students. “Assistive technology equips the learner...
This chapter aims to provide a panorama of suitable teaching resources and strategies for science education of blind and visually impaired students. Although it is not a thorough review, its intention is to provide examples of what is possible to do specifically for experimental sciences (Biology, ...
Federal and state estimates used for planning educational services do not adequately account for the number of children in the United States who are blind or visually impaired. In some cases, only students who are legally blind are reported, ignoring those who have difficulty seeing but do not ...