Technology for Exceptional Learners: Choosing Instructional Tools to Meet Students' Needs

This practical, classroom-oriented text helps pre-service and in-service teachers determine how technology can support the education of exceptional students. It examines many types of technology and their applications in meeting specific educational needs, since technological applications can and should be used in different ways with different students.

This practical, classroom-oriented text helps pre-service and in-service teachers determine how technology can support the education of exceptional students. It examines many types of technology and their applications in meeting specific educational needs, since technological applications can and should be used in different ways with different students.

Sarah E. Irvine Belson is an associate professor at American University, where she designed the university's new MAT in Instructional Technology and teaches both technology and special education courses. She earned her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction at Arizona State University in 1995, with specializations in Instructional Technology and Special Education. Her background includes teaching special needs students in both general and special education settings in district, state, and private organizations. She has many professional distinctions, including two consecutive years as recipient of the Faculty Research Award for preparing teacher educators to use Internet technology as an instructional tool, and inclusion as an invited member of the Presidential Committee on Technology in Education in the Clinton Administration. She is co-editor of AERA's Special Education Research Newsletter, and was recently assistant editor of Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disorders (a CEC Journal). Her research includes investigating effective teacher-education and innovation related to technology in the classroom and the use of technology for exceptional populations. She works in the D.C. public schools as a consultant to help teachers integrate technology.