Technology can help these children overcome many of their communication difficulties, so they can be included in lessons, and access a wider curriculum. For example, access devices can help learners with physical difficulties to use a computer, and enable them to access the same curriculum as their peers.
and numeracy skills develop slowly. Special needs include conditions such as dyslexia, physical disabilities, speech and language disorders, visual impairment, hearing loss, difficulties in communication, and emotional and behavioural difficulties.
Technology can help these children overcome many of their communication difficulties, so they can be included in lessons, and access a wider curriculum. For example, access devices can help learners with physical difficulties to use a computer, and enable them to access the same curriculum as their peers.
Software designed to meet a student’s particular needs can also help to motivate him or her. For some students technology may be the only way to ensure they can make their thoughts and needs known. For them, access to appropriate ICT-based solutions provides perhaps the only chance of participating fully in education and realising their full potential.
Students with specific learning difficulties can benefit enormously from using devices. Students would be able to follow video instructions which they can stop and restart, for instance, if they are having to follow a complex method. They can produce their own video and photographic evidence for portfolio work. Students with poor reading and writing skills can use a dictation apps. Devices often come with a screen reader, support for playback of closed-captioned content, and other access features. Features like these make devices easier to use for students who have vision impairment, are deaf or hard of hearing, or have a physical or learning disability.