Getting IT : using information technology to empower people with communication difficulties

Information technology (IT) has great potential to be an effective and empowering means of communication for people with communication difficulties. Getting IT explores how IT can help such people increase their independence, communicate in more direct ways and express themselves as part of society....

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Hlavní autoři: Murray, Dinah, Aspinall, Ann
Médium: E-kniha Kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: London J. Kingsley Publishers 2006
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Jessica Kingsley
Vydání:1
Témata:
Assistive computer technology
Assistive computer technology > Design
Computers and people with disabilities
Design
EDUCATION
Microcomputers
Microcomputers > Social aspects
Social aspects
ISBN:1843103753, 9781843103752, 1846425093, 9781846425097
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  • COVER -- Getting IT: Using Information Technology to Empower People with Communication Difficulties -- Contents -- Introduction: About Getting IT -- 1 Inclusion in the Twenty-first Century: The Argument for Ensuring IT Access -- 2 Beginning to Take Control -- 3 Telling Your Own Story -- 4 Asking and Telling -- 5 Connecting and Exploring -- 6 Living and Learning -- 7 Gett ing Together: Taking Part in Meetings -- 8 A Year or So Later… -- 9 Taking Control of Time: A Step-by-step Guide to Making an Interactive Calendar -- 10 How to Get IT Right: Tackling the Technical Aspects of Using Computer Equipment -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- APPENDIX 1 HINTS AND TIPS -- APPENDIX 2 RELEVANT WEBSITES -- APPENDIX 3 RESOURCES -- APPENDIX 4 HELPSHEETS -- INDEX