Exploring Technology Design for Students with Vision Impairment in the Classroom and Remotely

Exploring Technology Design for Students with Vision Impairment in the Classroom and Remotely

Exploring Technology Design for Students with Vision Impairment in the Classroom and Remotely

The authors, academics at Colorado University, looks at how technology can support development of the functional living/behavioural skills (as set out in the Expanded Core Curriculum) as well as the academic skills, to support TVIs. The researchers combined observation of an elementary classrooms at a school for the blind over 6 weeks, then conducted remote interviews with educators. The authors set out current challenges facing students and educators. They outline their methodology, then identify how their subject educators currently integrate teaching aspects of the ECC within their curriculum, with reference to classroom layout, timetables and class plans. They also explore educators use of and attitudes towards technology in this context. They look briefly at remote learning (6.2.2.) – remote learning having been introduced post the observation component and pre-the interviews with educators. This paper includes an extensive bibliography.

Gadiraju, V., Doyle O., Kane, S.K

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3411764.3445755

2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

May 8–13, 2021

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445755