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Publication Date: 2002
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Emerging Literacy through Assistive Technology.
Beck, Jennifer
TEACHING Exceptional Children, v35 n2 p44-48 Nov-Dec 2002
This article discuses how assistive technology affected the emergent literacy of 10 preschoolers (age 3) with multiple disabilities. The children used picture communication symbols, adapted books, a BIGmack, and a computer with Intellikeys, Intellipics, and Overlay Maker, alternative keyboard, and software. The benefits to the children are described. (Contains references.) (CR)
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Assistive Technology, Communication Aids (for Disabled), Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Early Childhood Education, Educational Technology, Emergent Literacy, Multiple Disabilities, Pictorial Stimuli, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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