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Getting IT : using information technology to empower people with communication difficulties / Dinah Murray and Ann Aspinall.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murray, Dinah, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Assistive computer technology--Design.
- Assistive computer technology.
- Computers and people with disabilities.
- Microcomputers--Social aspects.
- Microcomputers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (194 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Jessica Kingsley, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book explores how IT can help people with learning and communication difficulties increase their independence, communicate in more direct ways and express themselves as part of society. It examines common problems, and shows how IT can help solve them.
- Contents:
- COVER; Getting IT:Using Information Technologyto Empower People withCommunication Difficulties; Contents; Introduction:About Getting IT; 1 Inclusion in the Twenty-first Century:The Argument for Ensuring IT Access; 2Beginning to Take Control; 3Telling Your Own Story; 4Asking and Telling; 5Connecting and Exploring; 6Living and Learning; 7 Gett ing Together:Taking Part in Meetings; 8A 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 1HINTS AND TIPSAPPENDIX 2RELEVANT WEBSITES; APPENDIX 3RESOURCES; APPENDIX 4HELPSHEETS; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786610738045
- 9781280738043
- 1280738049
- 9781846425097
- 1846425093
- OCLC:
- 476048021
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