Promoting participation in schoolwork: assistive technology use by children with physical disabilities.
Assistive technology items are frequently prescribed to assist children with physical disabilities to minimise the barriers they experience in undertaking schoolwork. A range of items are recommended from computers to access systems and specialised software. However, it is not known what the range o...
| Publicado en: | Assistive Technology Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 93 - 106 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Summer2011
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