Preparing Teachers for the Inclusion Classroom - understanding assistive technology and its role in education
empfehlen| Titel: | Preparing Teachers for the Inclusion Classroom - understanding assistive technology and its role in education |
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| Form: | Internetpublikation |
| Autor(en): | Terence W. Cavanaugh |
| Jahr: | 2004 |
| Auszug: | Because of the large and increasing number of special needs students with disabilities, assistive educational technology is growing in importance. Special needs students are also having a greater impact on the general education teacher as, during the past 10 years, the percentage of students with disabilities served in schools and classes with their nondisabled peers has gradually increased. In the 1997-98 school year, US states reported that 97.8 percent of students ages 6 through 11 with disabilities were served in schools with their nondisabled peers, with 94.7 percent of students ages 12 through 17 with disabilities and 87.2 percent of students ages 18 through 21 with disabilities. These figures represent a large increase when compared to just four years before when in 1993-94 the states were serving 43.4 percent of students with disabilities ages 6-21 in regular classrooms. As the percentage of special needs students served in an inclusive setting along with nondisabled students rises, the number of special education and regular education teachers prepared to provide an inclusive environment must also increase (US Dept. of Education 2000, US Dept. of Education 1996). |