| Description |
1 online resource (electronic texts (315 pages)) |
| Contents |
1. The art of the possible: using technology to make teaching more inclusive / Simon Ball -- 2. An assessment of eye tracking as an educational aid for people with profound multiple learning difficulties (PMLD) / J.A. Renshaw [and others] -- 3. Haptics as an assistive technology / Damian Copeland -- 4. Using a computer aided test to raise awareness of disability issues amongst university teaching staff / John Gray [and others] -- 5. Computer-based learning systems for people with autism / David Moore -- 6. Understanding and enhancing emotional literacy in children with severe autism using facial recognition software / Salima Y Awad Elzouki and Bridget Cooper -- 7. Let's get set for university!: (the Springschool Experience for Disabled Students) / Helen Smith -- 8. Students with autism in higher education / Salima Y Awad Elzouki, Elizabeth Guest and Chris Adams -- 9. Reappraising the social model of disability: a Foucauldian reprise / William J. Penson -- 10. Support for disabled students in higher education: a move towards inclusion / John Reaney, Andrea Gorra and Hanim Hassan -- 11. Disabled students in higher education: lessons from establishing a staff disability forum / Ian Clarke -- 12. Supporting learning in further & higher education in Northern Ireland / Pauline Dowd -- 13. Modeling and developing a dyslexia support system / Tim Deignan -- 14. Inclusivity and research: capturing the lived experiences of young people with disabilities / Hayley Fitzgerald, Annette Stride and Anne Jobling -- 15. Reflections on personal experiences of staff training and continuing professional development for academic staff in the development of high quality support for disabled students in higher education / Alan Hurst -- 16. Reigniting the voice of disabled people in higher education / Michael Adams and Sally Brown |
| Summary |
"This book reports on research projects aimed at improving the educational prospects of disabled people, through its discussion of three main themes--technology, transition and inclusivity"--Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
Autism |
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Higher education |
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Computer-based learning systems |
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Disabled students |
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Dyslexia support system |
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Emotional literacy |
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Eye tracking |
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Haptics |
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Social model of disability |
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Staff training |
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Professional development |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Title screen (IGI Global, viewed Nov. 19, 2011) |
| Subject |
People with disabilities -- Education.
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Inclusive education.
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People with disabilities -- Effect of technological innovations on
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Mainstreaming, Education
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EDUCATION -- Inclusive Education.
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Inclusive education
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People with disabilities -- Education
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Inklusive Pädagogik
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Moore, David, 1950-
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| ISBN |
9781613501849 |
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1613501846 |
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