Professional paper

IMPLEMENTING ICT WITH DISABLED CHILDREN

Goran Livazović ; OŠ Šećerana, Šećerana, Beli Manastir, Hrvatska

Abstract

The social inclusive efforts are unique because they are the first of its kind to address IT access as a social justice issue for persons with disabilities. Computer and internet technology as the potential to help people with disabilities by providing access to a multitude of professional, educational, social and economical sources. Individuals with disabilities without web access are becoming even more deprived by the increased differences usually described as the “digital divide”. The disability digital divide is usually described as discrepancies in rates of physical access to computers and the Internet between people with and without disabilities. The myriad of potential gains through implementing ICT with disabled people is concealed only by its access limitations. Therefore, further study of these issues is needed, especially concerning the Croatian educational standards in educating disabled children through the implementation of ICT.

Keywords

inclusion; digital divide; adaptive technology; web access

Hrčak ID:

24066

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/24066

Publication date:

12.5.2008.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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