Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Tips from a Cripple 2: My own Brother AGAIN
I decided to ask my brother what assistive technology helps him out the most now that he is attending LCC. I was expecting to hear him say that he uses the vast amount of assistive technological equipment that is available to the 'students with disabilities' that we students see at the bottom of all of our syllabuses. But actually my brother surprised me. It seems that years of working with an occupational therapist, texting, and gaming have caused my brother to have better range of motion in his fingers and thumb so he now uses his iphone's 'notes app' to take class notes so he has them for reference at all times for five minute studying increments, because he has found that this way of studying is most beneficial to him. My brother says he uses his laptop for the heavy note taking but for big ideas he just jots them down in his phone, so he can look at them when he has time, is waiting for something, or is just bored. I have found another surprising personal technology effects a person's life
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