The potentials of virtual environments in the education and training of people with learning disabilities.
The expansion of 'care in the community' has highlighted the need for more effective educational and training media for people with learning disabilities, and this paper suggests that virtual environments (VEs) may help to meet this need. Firstly, key terms (virtual environment, cyberspace and artif...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Intellectual Disability Research Vol. 40; no. 6; pp. 489 - 502 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec1996
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