UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL,
SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION
UNESCO INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN EDUCATION
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
IN SPECIAL EDUCATION
Analytical Survey
MOSCOW
2000
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
IN SPECIAL EDUCATION
Analytical Survey
This analytical survey has been prepared for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Editorial working group:
Alistair Edwards (leader)
Kevin Carey
Grigori Evreinov
Kent Hammarstrom
Marshall Raskind
The analytical survey is published in accordance with recommendations of the expert meeting held by UNESCO IITE in Moscow, Russian Federation, 18-19 February 2000.
Experts:
Prof. Kiyoshi Amano, CHUO University, Japan;
Dr Joost M van den Broek, Kompagne, Netherlands;
Dr Alistair Edwards, University of York, UK;
Dr Grigori Evreinov, Specvuzavtomatika DB, Russia;
Dr Boris Koprivnikar, Centre for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Slovenia;
Dr Giuseppe Nicotra, ARCA Projetti SRL, Italy;
Dr Yuri Sereda, Apple Distinguished School #1126, Russia;
Dr Dmitry Shilov, Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, Russia.
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The opinions expressed in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the UNESCO Secretariat.
( UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE).
Moscow, 2001
Analytical Survey of information and communication technology in special education
Executive Summary
Promotion of education is a fundamental objective of UNESCO. By definition, people with disabilities are often restricted in the extent to which they can take a full part in the society in which they live, but many of those restrictions can be reduced by their receiving good education.
The most important educational resource is people – teachers. However, it has to be recognized that in the present and the foreseeable...