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Thanks to new technology, advocates of the handicapped are now envisioning a world in which the blind will be able to proofread written work, the paralyzed will be able to use computers, and those with impaired motor skills will be able to use a keyboard with ease...
...program, entitled "The National Special Education Alliance/Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST)/Harvard Summer Training Institute," seeks to introduce the best available computer equipment to assist people with special needs, and to provide these individuals with the training and practice to use these new tools. The program also aims to identify software that meets individual goals and curricular objectives, and to provide a framework for thinking about the future of technology in the special needs curriculum...
...What [the new technology] means is for the first time other kids can begin to learn that this kid who up to now had to use communication simply to make functional needs come and go and can't really do a lot of digressive calculations, other kids can learn for the first time that 'he's kind of a whiz at baseball statistics, we never knew that before. He's got a good sense of humor, we never knew that before,'" Brightman says...
Computer access brings to some to a "new lease on life," Thornburgh says. She says that one of the main purposes of the program is "a reduction of anxiety" among people with disabilities, so that they are not afraid to ask questions about how to use this new technology, and to seek help. "It opens up the ability to make requests," Thornburgh says. "All accessibility is about is a level playing field...
...mainly been a time where we can fill in our gaps [in knowledge] and use our strengths and backgrounds [for others]," Glass says...