Apps for Students with Disabilities
Students Gadgets28 Mar 2011
The latest technology has enabled the students with disabilities to help them with their studies. The high-tech devices including the iPad, iPad2 and iPod Touch can help students with hearing problems and walking disabilities.
A Bluetooth-enabled microphone can help with them with hearing loss and an iPad can store many of the heavy textbooks so, they don’t have to carry them around. Those devices can record instructions that students can keep handy, freeing up the job coach from looking over their shoulders while they work.
These apps are going to make a big difference,once the schools see the advantage.
“Smartpens” can record audio while a student takes notes. A click of the pen on the page takes the note-taker back to the accompanying audio. That’s helpful for kids who may have a hard time taking notes. ECO2 and ECOpoint track a person’s eye movements and type the corresponding word or picture they focus on.
These apps can help disabled people to be mainstreamed into society. So that these people will be treated like everybody else.