Perspectives on Technology in Special Education

M y special education career began in 1960 as a teacher of adolescents with mild mental retardation in a self-contained classroom in an inner-city school. My students were between the ages of 12 and 14, and their academic achievement levels were between Grades 1 and 4. The school district supplied me with a basal reading series, and I was instructed to teach the students how to read. (This was before individualized education programs, or IEPs, were required by federal law.) Although my students needed to develop basic reading skills. these teenagers did not respond well to the "baby stuff" in the texts. I became frustrated by the lack of age-appropriate instructional materials that could be used to teach basic skills.

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