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Effect of Assistive Technology in a Public School Setting.
- Source :
- American Journal of Occupational Therapy; Jan/Feb2010, Vol. 64 Issue 1, p18-29, 12p, 5 Charts, 3 Graphs
- Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- The Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 (IDEA) requires assistive technology (AT) be considered at the yearly individualized education program (IEP) meeting of every student in special education. IDEA also directs that AT be implemented on the basis of peer-reviewed literature despite a paucity of research on AT's effectiveness in the public schools. This repeated-measures quasi-experimental study explored AT's effect in a public school special education setting. Participants (N = 13) were a heterogeneous group of students in 1 school system who had newly provided AT to address academic and communication goals in one school year. Results suggest that relative to other interventions, AT provided by a multidisciplinary team may have a significant effect on IEP goal improvement (t[12] = 5.54, p = .00) for students in special education (F[2] = 9.35, p = .00), which may support AT's use in special education by occupational therapists as directed by IDEA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ASSISTIVE technology
EDUCATION of people with disabilities
INDIVIDUALIZED education programs
SPECIAL education
PUBLIC schools
ACADEMIC achievement
ANALYSIS of variance
AUTISM
COMMUNICATION devices for people with disabilities
DEVELOPMENTAL disabilities
STUDENTS with disabilities
HEALTH care teams
LEARNING disabilities
RESEARCH methodology
OCCUPATIONAL therapy for children
RESEARCH funding
STATISTICAL sampling
SCALES (Weighing instruments)
SCHOOLS
STATISTICAL hypothesis testing
STATISTICS
RATING of students
T-test (Statistics)
DATA analysis
UNITED States. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
SOCIAL services case management
PRE-tests & post-tests
ACADEMIC accommodations
REPEATED measures design
DATA analysis software
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02729490
- Volume :
- 64
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- American Journal of Occupational Therapy
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 47154145
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.64.1.18