Learners with disabilities are subject to multiple deprivations and
limited opportunities in several dimensions of their lives. This work is going
to present the importance of assistive technology for inclusion of disabled
adolescents especially in covid era. Assistive technology is used by persons
with disabilities in order to perform functions that might otherwise be
impossible. Assistive technology has the unique potential to dynamically
transform the adolescents’ learning experience by helping them to become
engaged thinker, global citizens and active learning participants in
collaborative social learning environment.
Educators are using computers as tools to deliver and facilitate
learning beyond drill and practice, to provide environments that accommodate
learning to ensure enhanced and equitable learning environments to all
students. Efforts should be done to develop, integrate and access assistive
technology service system with high quality, in order to optimize its
effectiveness. Students with impairment are likely to have more problems than
normal students. Their difficulties are many – physical strength, sensory,
cognitive, psychiatric, and other health-related issues. The development of
computer-based technology has introduced various and unlimited options for
physically challenged students, ceasing the isolation and insufficient
opportunities they endured for long. Computer programs or applications
introduced in classrooms are making it easier for such students to get access
to learning materials, online education, communicate ideas, interact with
others, and participate in educational activities. To conclude, this paper
attempts to analyze and describe that differently-abled students shouldn’t be
barred from education. Like normal kids, some special students do perform
better in environments with little distractions and easy access to pertinent
technology. With the help of technology, the future of such students is bright
and they will be able to participate in classroom education and experience
school life.
During covid era, assistive technology helped with different ways of
learning and opens up new opportunities to connect, explore, innovate and
create and share knowledge. COVID-19 has highlighted the importance of
assistive technology that enables and promotes inclusion and participation,
especially of adolescents with disabilities. Computer reading machines, a type
of assistive technology, allows adolescents with learning disabilities to read
at a level more commensurate with their cognitive abilities. During corona era,
digital assistive technology including a range of technologies, which enable
people to build on their abilities and participate as fully as possible at
home, school, work and in their community.
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