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=Assistive Technology for students with LD.=

 I am an associate professor in Special Education and Educational Technology. I am really interested in assistive technology for students with learning disabilities. This is a particular concern of mine because many people do not feel that students with LD or mild disabilities need any assistive technology. Therein lies the confusion about the term "assistive technology." In fact by not using technology with students with mild disabilities we are denying them skills they need for life-long learning.

 In the course EDET 735 that I teach at the University of South Carolina in Columbia SC, we talk about assistive technology and adaptive devices and Universal Design for Learning. If you are interested in this course, which is part of our M.Ed. in Educational Technology program, please visit our web page for the [|M.Ed. Degree.]

 As I mentioned in this course we talk about Universal Design for Learning. You might be wondering what that is and if so you can visit the [|CAST] web site for additional information.

 I use many tools in my daily life that were originally developed for persons with disabilities. First I always look for curb cuts as I wheel my computer all over and it is much easier to use a curb cut than to lift it up. Then at night I sometimes use closed captioning so that I can keep the TV very low and not disturb others in the house. I would love to use speech recognition but to date I have not had enough patience to train it and I guess I work in noisy areas too.

This Wikispaces project was developed as an example of a possible project for AEET/EDET 735 Technology for Diverse Populations Taught by Dr. Cheryl Wissick College of Education, University of South Carolina. For more information on the course and the EDET program contact me at cwissick@sc.edu