How to Use Low-Cost Devices as Teaching Materials for Children with Different Disabilities
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This chapter focuses on how to use assistive technology to help children with disabilities. The real situation is that many classes do not have enough resources to buy much equipment for children with different needs. We will introduce how to use low-cost devices to make a simple interactive whiteboard, a low-cost AirMouse and interactive feedback for rehabilitation treatment. Some research has combined the use of a Wii hand controller and infrared (IR) emitter to create a low-cost interactive whiteboard; we applied and extended the relative issues in this chapter that utilizes the Wii hand controller as a key of assistive technology. The contents are applied in Flash software or PowerPoint, so that resource teachers could design the teaching materials without any training.
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