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This practical new guide is designed to help school officials put students and staff with learning disabilities on a "level playing field" with everone else, in computer labs, in libraries, and in classrooms. Rather than merely focusing on specific types of hardware and software, the authors discuss how to set up the infrastructure necessary to provide technology and support. They cover computer access issues, as well as the use of computer-based compensatory tools- speical adaptive technology designed to enable individuals with disabilities to participate more independently in the academic environment.

This book will serve as an excellent guide for college and university administrators, computer lab staff, librarians, disabled student services staff and faculty members.

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Higher Education's Obligations to People with Disabilities
• The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 Planning an Adaptive Computing
• Program Implementing an Adaptive Computing Program
• Creating Accessible Workstations and Facilities Scope and Limits of Supporting
• Students with Disabilities Technology and Techniques Matching People and Technology
• Issues in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Creating Accessible Libraries
• The Information Highway and the Information Hungry Sensitivity and So Much More
• Appendices
• Bibliography
• Index

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

CARMELA CUNNINGHAM is a writer who has spent the last seven years researching and writing about adaptive computing technology and information access for people with disabilities.

NORMAN COOMBS, Ph.D., is a retired professor of history, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York.