Digital Technology for Students with Learning Disabilities
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102). This special issue belongs to the section "Special and Inclusive Education".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 February 2024) | Viewed by 1653
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ICT support for educational processes; social inclusion education of individuals with special educational needs; computer supported collaborative learning; e-inclusion
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Environmental factors interact with all dimensions of an individual's functioning and can act as barriers or facilitators, thus having a positive or negative effect on their performance and on everyone’s active participation. In this framework, technologies, which the International Classification of Functioning (ICF-WHO, 2002) classifies as environmental factors, are effective tools for supporting the independence and autonomy of the person in difficult situations and can facilitate inclusion in the context education and active participation in social life and working life.
Technologies, understood as mediators between the person and the environment, promote inclusion and can contribute to the development of inclusive and fair educational models. In this sense, technologies can play both a compensatory/enabling role, making those students "able-bodied" who cannot perform a specific function due to various difficulties, and a role of social and participatory support, ensuring participation in a context of social learning (including distance learning). Referring to the educational context, this topic welcomes research contributions, experiences and systematic reviews on pedagogical models based on the principles of inclusion, accessibility and usability, assistive technologies, design for all, artificial intelligence and disability, disability and gaming, robotics, extended reality, the teachers’ digital competence.
Prof. Dr. Vincenza Benigno
Dr. Stefano Di Tore
Guest Editors
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Keywords
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E-inclusion
- social inclusion
- inclusive technology
- assistive technology
- accessibility
- disability and technology
- robotics
- extended reality
- rehabilitation
- teachers’ digital competence
- digital technology
