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Equity of Access: Adaptive Technology
Frances S. Grodzinsky
- Introduction
- The Problems
- An Example: Sacred Heart University
- One Solution: An Adaptive Technology Laboratory
- New Concerns
- Examples of Adaptive Technology
- Adaptive Software
- Ergonomics
- Alternative Input Features and Devices
- Adaptations for the Visually-Impaired
- Devices for Students with Learning Disabilities
- Impact on Students
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgment
- Resources
- References
Video Text – An Example – SHU – Movie 1
Equity of Access – Adaptive Technology:
An Example: SHU – Movie 1
by Frances S. Grodzinsky of Sacred Heart University
“So… what I’d like to talk about is the situation at Sacred Heart University. I became really interested in the problems of students with disabilities when I had a student in my class – which was a hands-on class – who had a… severe visual disability. She couldn’t read the computer screen because the font was much too small and even when we increased the font to its greatest size, it was really impossible for her to do this class. Another one of my students was nearly crippled with arthritis which she contracted at an early age… so the very job of sitting at a keyboard and typing in Excel spreadsheets or Access databases, or Word documents was quite painful and quite problematic for her. Because of this – and through the NSF – I succeeded in getting a grant to create an adaptive technology lab at Sacred Heart University.”
Art direction, digital photography, and editing by Margaret E. Tehan.
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