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2. Helping SEN students to build up positive values and self-confidence

Benefits

José María's journal article 'Assistive Technology for the Inclusion of Students with Disabilities: a systematic review' in 2022, stated that AT has many benefits on the students' development which included but are not limited to improving the learning process, social skills, etc... (José María,2022)

-Students with autism spectrum can make use of word processors to communicate with their peers and blend into the social circle.

-Being accepted and recognized by their peers can enhance their sense of belonging and help them recognize their value.

- Bridges disparities between children with and without disabilities

Benefits of AT in education

1. Helping students with disabilities to achieve their fullest potential.

Statistics of students using AT in the U.S

-Wheelchairs can improve students' physical mobility and facilitate students' commute between schools and homes.

-More time for their all round development.

Current trend of AT in U.S

According to the article ‘What Educators Need to Know About Assistive Tech Tools’ published by The Journal in 2022, there were 6 million students enrolled in public schools, used AT to achieve academic goals. (The Journal,2022)

- A survey conducted by the IJSE demonstrates that a majority of students with disabilities believed AT has a positive effect on their academic performance. (Areej Ahmed,2018)

A Large number of positive feedback and AT users indicate that AT is popularised among students with disabilities in the U.S and the implementation of AT for educational purposes in the U.S is a huge success

-Many of the AT can now be found in the classrooms.

-From simple tools like adaptive pencils to more complex devices like word processors are already available in schools.

Elijah- a eight years old student

Dyslexia

-diagnosed dyslexia at three years old

-once struggled with speaking and writing

-can now speak fluently and excel himself in areas of strength

Country that has implemented AT to support education

-A learning disorder that involves difficulties in reading due to the problems of identifying speech sounds and how they relate to the words.

- Being a visual thinker who uses pictures to organize thoughts

- They need to handle trillion bits of data before they can speak

The United States

-The U.S department of education has implemented assistive technologies to support education since the 19th century.

- Providing large printing material for students with visual impairment

Success story of student with disabilities

How AT helps Elijah

-A interactive phonics programs that introduces alphabets to Elijah one at a time.

-Elijah can click on the letter to hear the sound associated with it and the picture related to the letter will show up simultaneously.

- He can now plunge into previously unachievable tasks like creative writing.

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Barriers

-Passing exam with flying colors?

-Getting good grades?

limitations that restrict students from accessing AT and the solutions to them

Education

-According to an article from WHO in 2018, it is mentioned that the situation of financial barriers is the most serious among students from low and middle-income countries and there are more than 200 million people with visual impairment don’t have access to AT devices like glasses and spectacles due to their cost. (WHO,2018)

-Global report on AT from UNICEF in 2018 stated that in countries with higher Human Development Index (HDI) and socioeconomic development,

its residents will have more access to assistive technology. (UNICEF,2018)

To SEN students ( Students with special educational needs.

Accessing education could be a challenge to the students with disabilities

Solution

Assistive technology

-By comparison, the sources mentioned above are focusing on financial barriers from the microeconomic and macroeconomic perspective.

-Financial barrier illustrated in WHO's article can be supported by UNICEF's report

Analysis

-Devices that are used to improve the functional capability of people with disabilities.

-Allowing the disadvantaged to participate in education at the same starting line as their peers.

- Government should provide subsidy for the purchase and repair of AT

-Government can provide funding to the AT manufacturers to reduce their production cost

-Making AT more affordable and accessible to students.

-HDI can reflect a country's economic development, hence its residents' economic quality of life

-Low HDI indicates people in the country have low consumption power and disposable income.

Example of assistive technology

- Text to speech software

- Braille display

- Audio books

- Talking calculators

Assitive technologies

Changing the way how SEN students study