Assistive Technology Argumentative Analysis

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Advances in technology impact many people across the world. These advances have never been greater than in this past century. This technology has proven exceedingly valuable for many children and especially for handicapped people. Assistive technologies are meant to help people in their primary functional tasks. For example, wheelchairs, scooters, walkers, and canes are assistive technologies for mobility; related products include lifts on vehicles and portable ramps. More people are using assistive technologies related to mobility than any other general type of assistive technology. Children can utilize assistive technologies to interact with computers, learning, and do many things without help with others. This technology benefits many …show more content…
This technology is valuable and suitable especially to raise the students' aptitude for class involvement or participation. This technology demonstrates valuable when workings with students have learning disabilities for example of Attention Deficit Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and autism. For instance, student with autistic can improve their communication ability by interacting and touching the computer screens. (Miller, 2014)
According to Vanessa Miller, who wrote, "Touch-screen tablets help connect autistic kids with their families and world" this technology is enjoyable, interesting and shows great benefits for children with autism spectrum disorders and other mental and communicative disabilities. (Miller
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Overall assistive technology is a excellent technology that altering the limitations life has given people with disabilities problem, particularly in the learning and education surroundings, and the future will only unravel more innovations that will wipe our previous meanings of disabilities out from below the tables; moreover, this technology can be an extremely valuable instrument for educators, when teaching in a special education learning environment. Though the students may have certain disabilities that prevent them from being in a traditional learning environment, this type of assistive technology can benefit and support the learning gap. In this case, having this type of assistive technology lets educators build a curriculum that can benefit these special needs students. Furthermore, not only does this give these special needs students a medium to which they can learn and communicate with software or by touching the screen, it also helps build students' confidence and allows them the ability to achieve the goal of reaching their academic dreams along with the traditional student counterparts. Finally, this research paper applied to the effect of assistive technology on education and wellbeing from a lifelong-learning perspective that impact the student's education and beyond. This technology benefits many

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