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Assistive Technology Findings

I found a lot of interesting things during my research of assistive technology; things that I have never even heard of or thought of. The most interesting thing was probably the hearing aid that was a telephone. Someone could call and it would send directly to their hearing aid so that they didn’t have to pick up a phone or anything. What was most surprising to me was how affordable adaptable cars were. A person on disability can afford one without a problem.

The most beneficial technology that I saw was probably the special communication devices used for children who can’t speak to learn how to communicate. It greatly helped that person who possesses it because they can now communicate with friends and family when they need to. They also learned how to read and write.

If I had to use the technology that I researched, I would be thankful. I would be glad that I own it. With the phones, at home I could talk to my grandparents or anyone I needed to speak to. With the car, I would be able to go to school more efficiently and faster, and with the new communication devices, I would be able to answer questions in school and learn faster than I would if I didn’t have that technology.

I think people that use these assistive technologies are most likely avoided. I’m sure that people who use these technologies don’t have many friends because people are uncomfortable around people with disabilities, mainly because they don’t understand and they don’t know how to act around them.

Assistive Technology

http://www.edutopia.org/assistive-technology-success-stories
These are stories about children who overcame obstacles using assitive technology:)

Reflection

We have learned a lot over the past 12 weeks. The sad thing is, I probably won't remember it, mainly because it changes. All the time. But while I do remember it I'll say that technology is important. If we didn't have technology there wouldn't be any advertising, media sharing, good communication, good education, and several other things that we need. And like I said before, it changes a lot. The last five years it hasn't changed much but over the past 10-15 years it has. Like from floppy discs to CDs and DVDs, and it is bound to change again into something else. We have flash drives and stuff but what will be next? I have no idea.

Next thing I am going to talk about is how we use technology. We use it for school, and personal use. For school, I just use it for research, lots of research, and review, and sometimes it's helpful to my teachers when I can email my essays or something on those lines. For personal use I use cameras, my laptop, tablets, game consoles, CELL PHONE, tvs, and other things like every day. All of them make my life easier. Thats what they're for and I will continue to use it the way I want to. 

Lastly I will talk about Online A directly. I will probably use blogger to look at other people's blogs, I'm not sure I will have my own forever. I will use igoogle for google, the cute games and chatting.  That's just my opinion and it might change, so I'm not sure on a lot of them. Especially because most of them will be different in the next couple of years. The only one that is really good for life-long learning for me is igoogle because it's connectected to google and I will always use that for my research. I will probably never use delicious, podcasts, avatars, and gadgets. The one I really liked was blogging. I like to blog:) My least favorite was delicious. It is a tedious process that I won't EVER use again. It is the same thing over and over again, add a link, tag the link, add a link, tag it again! Plus I kept forgetting my username and password, so that frustrated me.

What I'm really trying to say is, I learned a lot, not much i'm going to use...

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