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Helping Our Children with Disabilities Succeed: What’s Broadband Got to Do With It?

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The Children’s Partnership released a report on how children with disabilities use broadband and other technologies. The report shows while technology can open new doors for youth with disabilities, these children lack the access they need to put the technologies to use. The report concludes with a call to action around the following key areas:

1) Promote access to affordable broadband everywhere

2) Enforce existing laws and educate the public about them

3) Deepen the research on broadband’s value for and impact on all children

4) Ensure access to and training with accessible and assistive technologies

Read the full report at http://www.childrenspartnership.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Reports1&Template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentFileID=2284.

What are the implications of these recommendations and the state of broadband availability and use for students with disabilities, research, and policy? Join the discussion!

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For those of you who are designing and developing new tools - how does the reality of non-ubiquitous access influence development? Do you make a tool for a wide market that exists now or for the potential market of improved access at some point later in time and keep advocating for improved access?

Heidi Silver-Pacuilla on August 13, 2007 at 7:21 am

Check out this interesting related story about an elementary school in Charlotte, NC that is outfitting its classrooms with a variety of technologies, including a live-video feed that parents and administrators can use to observe classroom activities: http://www.charlotte.com/local/story/236783.html

Anju on August 21, 2007 at 3:36 pm

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