Posted in Technology Issues and Ideas on Nov 28th, 2002 1 Comment »
What is it? What does it mean? What does it look like? © 2002 Richard Wanderman, David Clark, Monika Koethnig What is it? Imagine sitting in a Starbucks with your portable computer in your lap, not plugged into anything, and being able to communicate with friends all over the world, pay your bills, move money [...]
Posted in Technology Issues and Ideas on Nov 28th, 2002 11 Comments »
© 2002 Leonard V. Pisano, Ph.D. lvponline@aol.com Setting the stage What is the impact of increased educational standards on students with learning differences? On a national level, educational performance standards, curriculum demands and graduation requirements are being increased. Students with learning differences or disabilities will be held to the same increased standards. They cannot be [...]
Posted in Education Issues and Ideas on Nov 27th, 2002 No Comments »
© 2002 Jaena L.H. Smith jlhsmith@aol.com I am a special education teacher who has ADD, mother of three children with ADD, have three siblings with learning sisabilities, and a Technology Grant Recipient in 2000. One of the first things that might run through a parent’s thoughts is I don’t understand. I thought that my child [...]
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on Nov 27th, 2002 No Comments »
© 2002 Heather Leigh Harrison Assistive Technology Coordinator University of CT A.J. Pappanikou Center for Disabilities hharrison@nso1.uchc.edu This year, I attended the famed Closing the Gap conference on assistive technology and special education, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Since my introduction to assistive technology, I’ve been told that Closing the Gap was something I had to see. [...]
Posted in Computers and Software on Nov 10th, 2002 No Comments »
© 2002 Richard Wanderman and David Clark Mac OS X is fantastic and offers significant capabilities to users with and without special access needs. However, there are some misconceptions in the assistive technology community about what is involved in using OS X and we think this is part of the reason it has been slow [...]
Posted in Events and Conferences on Nov 9th, 2002 10 Comments »
© 2002 Richard Wanderman Richard Wanderman presenting informally to a group of special education teachers in New Delhi, India. Introduction I’ve been presenting and leading workshops, mostly on technology and learning disabilities for the past 18 years. In the process I’ve done quite a bit of travel both domestically and internationally, presented to all kinds [...]