Assistive Technology in Education

This chapter overviews the state of research in assistive technologies that support teaching and learning for individuals with blindness or severe visual impairment (IBSVI). Education, learning, and information are culturally defined and designed for efficient communication and access for humans with typical visual and spatial capabilities. Understanding the unintended roadblocks to IBSVI brought on by such culturally defined elements of instruction and information is critical to assisting IBSVI to participate in the education and learning milieux. We divide the assistive technology challenges to the support for classroom instruction and for individual access to informational media. We address different aspects of each of these challenges and discuss various approaches to these aspects.

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