Computer technology has an important role to play in children’s education especially those children with learning disabilities. The advanced technologies provide lot of easy learning techniques and tools for the children to experiment with. Schools from Kindergarten level onwards should accommodate proper technology changes in their curriculum to pave way for a revolution in dealing with the education of disabled children.

New technologies are emerging in the form of computer software packages that are specially created and are more expressive to cop up with the learning patterns of children. Children’s education should introduce and explore the applicability of this technological revolution in terms of new learning experiences at the earliest…

Consider the case of illustrative computer software technologies. If they are able to help the children to adapt effortlessly to interesting and challenging gaming and other learning activities then it will prove to be a great success. In many such cases children have shown tremendous improvements outpacing even their parents’ expectations. Children with several disabilities were able to play interactive games adjusting themselves to the new challenges posed by computer menus and operating systems. Some of these young ones were having physical disabilities and others were affected with behavioural disorders like delayed speech, autistic symptoms etc.

Proper research on the impact of technology on various subjects like general curriculum art, social studies, science math etc. can lead to potential milestone achievements that will change the way these children are educated. Of course researchers should take into account the feed back from teachers, parents and other experts in the field. The idea is to introduce more creativity and innovative approaches while establishing the syllabus for the curriculum. . Other than just learning to read, write and do arithmetic, the children should acquire the strategies to widen their inherent process skills utilizing technology as a tool in various activities like critical thinking, communication, problem solving and applied technical reasoning.

The specially designed computer software allows children to intermingle with class mates, members from the family and also with other social organizations through e-mails, chat room facility, class room websites and other interactive software. Touch tablets, adaptive key boards and the likes are the necessary modifications to suit to the special needs of the disabled students. Children with moderate to medium disabilities responded well when encouraged to read and understand stories with pictorial representation in the websites. They were also able to sign up on a web page adding information like name and other known details. The children could cop with intelligent games and participated with enthusiasm in interactive programs.

These children with disabilities are able to memorize and retain certain interesting information like any other normal children. Disabled children often closely watch what others are doing whether it be of computer software programs or other physical activities. This is known as observational learning and children with disabilities learn certain skills through observation when they are encouraged to participate in group activities.

As described, often it comes as a surprise regarding the learning abilities of children when assisted with advanced technology. The interactive and intelligent software programs stimulate the learning trends in the younger ones even when they are disabled. Again one should be very careful in designing the software program and other technologies for children’s education. If the teaching style becomes more instructional oriented, children tend to show less interest. So we should go for a medium of learning that is inquisitive, interesting, meaningful and challenging…