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Essential Competencies of Special Educator in Integrating Assistive Technology into the Curriculum

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2004)

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This study addresses the essential competencies of special educator in integrating assistive technology (AT) into the curriculum. Researchers identified ten categories of skills required to integrate assistive technology, after viewing deliberate literature. Fourteen professionals in special education, rehabilitation and assistive technology formed as a web-based Delphi panel and reviewed the importance of the competencies. Following three rounds of a web-based Delphi survey, 51 statements were determined to be important or very important to AT integration.

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  1. Department of Special Education, National Chiayi University, 300 University Rd., Chiayi, 600, Taiwan, R.O.C.

    Ming-Chung Chen

  2. Department of Occupational Therapist, Chung Gung University, 259 Weng Hwa 1st Rd., Kweishan, 333, Taoyuan, Taiwan, R.O.C.

    Ting-Fang Wu

  3. Department of Management Information Systems, Chung Cuo Institute of Technology, 56 Sec, 1 Shinglung Rd, 116, Taipei, R.O.C.

    Chi-Nung Chu

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  1. Institut Integriert Studieren, Johannes Kepler Universität, Altenbergerstraße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. Studienzentrum fuer Sehgeschaedigte, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Germany

    Joachim Klaus

  3. fortec - Research Group on Rehabilitation Technology, Institute integrated study, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/029, A-1040, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang L. Zagler

  4. INSERM U592 – Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Association BrailleNet, 9, quai Saint Bernard, 75252, Paris cedex 05, France

    Dominique Burger

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Chen, MC., Wu, TF., Chu, CN. (2004). Essential Competencies of Special Educator in Integrating Assistive Technology into the Curriculum. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W.L., Burger, D. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3118. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27817-7_25

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