Enabling Technology for Inclusion

by Mike Blamires

• ISBN13: 9781853964367
• ISBN10: 1853964360
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-02-18
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

What is enabling technology? How can enabling technology become a powerful tool for inclusion? What is inclusion anyway? Enabling Technology for Inclusion is about the leading edge of best practice. It updates the debate on inclusive education, placing enabling technology within the context of universal design for learning and innovative thinking about social, physical, and cognitive inclusion.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Preface	ix
Acknowledgements	x
The focus	xi
Introduction	xiii
Abbreviations	xiv
What Is Enabling Technology?	1	(16)
Mike Blamires
Part I Enabling Learning	17	(18)
Enabling Learning: The Vital Role of Theory	19	(8)
Peter Dorman
Developing Literacy	27	(8)
Mike Blamires
Part II Enabling Socialization	35	(38)
Advocacy and Self-Advocacy	37	(15)
Sally Paveley
Raising Self-Esteem	52	(9)
Colin Hardy
Developing Social Communication	61	(12)
Richard Walter
Part III Enabling Physical Engagement	73	(38)
Scaling Physical Barriers	75	(8)
Lesley Rahamim
Developing Curriculum Access Based on Sensory Approaches: Partial Sight and Blindness	83	(13)
John Lodge
Developing Visual Approaches: Hearing Impairment and Deafness	96	(15)
Ann McDevitt
Part IV Summary	111	(7)
Summary Themes	113	(5)
Mike Blamires
Appendix I: Sources	118	(1)
Appendix II: List of Suppliers	119	(4)
References	123	(63)
Bibliography	186	(6)
Name Index	192	(1)
Subject Index	193