What Information and Communication Technologies Do Canadian College Students with Learning Disabilities Use?

Proposal No: 209

Bios & Handouts

Speaker(s)

• Howard Kramer, Co-Director, AHEAD
• Norm Coombs, , EASI

Disability Area: Cognitive|Learning   Mobility   Vision   Deaf|HOH   Other Disability  

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Topic Area: Legal   Best Practices   Web|Media Access   Alternate Format   Campus Policy   Curriculum Access   Assistive Technology   Information Resources  

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Length of Session (in hours): 1

Format: Lecture

Expertise Level: All Levels

Type of session: General Conference

Summary of Session

Speakers will present on recent empirical research on college students with learning disabilities in Canada and the technologies they use. Speakers will also discuss a related and ongoing initiative on free or inexpensive technologies that are useful to students with learning disabilities.

Abstract

Results of a recent Adaptech Research Network study looking at what information and communication technologies (ICTs) Canadian college students with learning disabilities found useful, along with data on what experts perceived as ICTs that would be useful to these students will be presented. An off-shoot of this research focused on cataloguing free or inexpensive ICTs that can be of help to students with learning disabilities will also be discussed. Additional Speakers: Maria Barile, Co-Director Adaptech Research Network, and Norman Coombs, CEO, EASI.

Kepoints

1. Information and communication technologies Canadian college students with learning disabilities find useful.
2. Information and communication technologies Canadian experts perceive to be useful to college students with learning disabilities.
3. Information on Adaptech Research Network?s library of free or inexpensive ICTs.

Speaker Bio(s)

Howard Kramer

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Norm Coombs

Norman Coombs, Ph.D. is the CEO of EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information) as well as professor emeritus from the Rochester Institute of Technology where he taught history for 36 years. He pioneered RIT\\\\\\\'s distance learning program and was chosen as New York State CASE, (Council for the Advancement and Support of Education), \\\\\\\"Teacher of the Year\\\\\\\" award in 1990 for using computers in teaching. in 2000, he was the recipient of the Francis Joseph Campbell Award of the American Library Association for work in helping libraries to meet the needs of customers with

Handout(s)

• ../handouts/fichten/AccessingHigherGroundPresentation2012.doc