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Assistive Technology and the Multiage Classroom
Terry Lankutis and Kristen Kennedy

Special needs educators have long known that technology can come close to working miracles in bringing students with physical and learning disabilities into the general education curriculum. Assistive technologies such as text-to-speech and word prediction software remain invaluable resources for struggling readers and writers, while multimedia-enhanced Web sites and concept mapping software have opened new pathways for students with alternative learning styles (see "Promising Technologies"). Whereas full-time aides once shadowed learning-disabled students, reading worksheets aloud or helping with writing assignments, new technologies now allow students to work independently, and as a result, they are better able to participate in the regular curriculum....



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