Assistive technology for the blind student

Shane Doepel

By Shane Doepel
Community contribution / May 16, 2014

Ensuring blind students can gain equitable access to the new Australian Curriculum is an important challenge for our education systems today. The new Australian Curriculum is increasingly visual. This increase in visual content has come about with the proliferation of interactive white boards (IWB) in multi-media classrooms, which has coincided with the data transfer and storage capabilities of the internet and computers, allowing for more efficient video and image transfers.

Technology today allows the Australian teacher to more easily present highly visual multi-media lessons. The internet, along with YouTube, library ...

This story appeared in the June 2014 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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