Assistive Technology

Bouck presents a textbook for current and future educators that addresses the entire range of assistive technology available to support students with disabilities, including the low-tech options often considered less glamorous. Considering students from early childhood through transition into adulthood, she describes different options in light of the purpose or support the technology can provide--for example, vision, behavior, instructional aid, and computer access--rather that by a student's disability categorization--learning disability, orthopedic impairment, and so on. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Assistive Technology by Emily C. Bouck presents a succinct, but comprehensive overview to assistive technology for students with disabilities. The book covers the range of disabilities from high-incidence or mild to low-incidence or severe disabilities as well as the range of ages from early childhood special education to transition and post-school life.  In addition, this textbook utilizes the TPACK perspective – Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) - a framework that identifies the knowledge teachers need to teach effectively with technology. This framework emphasizes the consideration of the value of technology in light of pedagogy and curriculum as well as perspective repurposing – which involves taking everyday technology and using it for the additional purposes of assistive technology.