Instructional Technology

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The paper creates an instructional design aimed at helping disabled learners access and make use of assistive technologies. The paper specifically examines high school studies, showing the personnel needed to make these decisions, the functions to be served, and the way the technology is to be adapted to the needs of each student and to the needs of the learning situation.

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"The purpose is to create an instructional design aimed at helping disabled learners access and make use of assistive technologies, in this case at the high school level. The use of computer-aided instruction (CAI) has been implemented for different types of learner. CAI began to gain a wide acceptance in the mid-1980s. Prior to that time, however, inadequate instructional materials provided for use in CAI caused many instructors and students alike to become disenchanted with the technology. It is significant to note that the technology was not at fault. The fault lay in the adaptation of the technology to the learning environment (Carter, 1994). Many companies have adapted computer learning to the needs of people with disabilities, and the computer allows them to access information easily and often to do so from any location, enabling home study for the severely disabled."

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