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Getting IT - Using information technology to empower people with communication difficulties (Paperback, 1st pbk. ed)
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Getting IT - Using information technology to empower people with communication difficulties (Paperback, 1st pbk. ed)
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Information technology (IT) has great potential to be an effective
and empowering means of communication for people with communication
difficulties. Getting IT explores how IT can help such people
increase their independence, communicate in more direct ways and
express themselves as part of society. Authors Dinah Murray and Ann
Aspinall examine common problems faced by people with learning and
communication difficulties - being judged on appearances,
encountering impatience from communication partners, problems
identifying and understanding key information and difficulties
communicating decisions. They show how IT can help solve these
problems: for example internet search tools for accessing
information at home, typing and email as socially neutral,
universally acceptable modes of expression, anonymous,
non-judgmental internet chatrooms and discussion forums. Three
central case studies illustrate how IT improved the lives of Kumar
who is on the autism spectrum, Marie who has dementia and Irene who
is almost completely nonverbal. The book also provides practical
guidance on how to use common IT programs including Powerpoint and
gives an overview of the technology available for people with
specific difficulties. Useful resources and organisations are
supplied at the end of the book. Getting IT shows the power of IT
to help people with communication difficulties satisfy the
universal human need to communicate. This book will inspire carers,
teachers, psychologists, parents and other professionals to use IT
with people with communication difficulties, and will expand the
skills and knowledge of those who already do.
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