In today's digital society, those with learning disabilities and physical handicaps have great opportunity to succeed in education. Because of assistive technology, there are now readily available accommodations for learners with special needs.
For the following real world classroom technology solution, assistive technology can be added to help students with special needs succeed.
Consider the following assistive technology case:
–Ben has low vision and as a result has difficulty reading printed text. He needs documents to be magnified greatly in order for him to be able to read them, or he can have the documents read to him.
For the real world classroom technology proposal, students must prepare an iMovie presentation covering the subgenres of literature. For Ben this might cause a problem if he is not able to see the computer screen as they produce their presentation. iZoom is a free Mac-based software program that allows students to drag a magnifying glass-type icon over any are of the monitos so they are able to read the screen more easily.
In this way, Ben will be able to fully participate in the group project and successfully manage the iMovie presentation without his low vision hindering his production. Assistive technology, in this case, proves to be successful at giving special needs students the same opportunities as everyone else.
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