http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2024(IX-I).05
10.31703/gsr.2024(IX-I).05
Published : Mar 2024
Empowering Students with Intellectual Disability: Role of Assistive Devices
Assistive technologies may be useful in empowering students with intellectual disabilities, and teachers can use them to assist their students learn and accomplish at the highest levels possible. This study explains how teachers who work with special students with intellectual disabilities perceive the support functions of assistive technology. Twelve teachers who work with students with intellectual disabilities were interviewed by the researcher. Interview data was analyzed by using IPA. The findings of this study may be useful when evaluating support for people with intellectual disabilities, not just in education but also in vocational training, employment support, and work from home. Quick Response triggers on printed cards to activate movies that model the sequence of actions or directions for performing a task using assistive technology. Students can learn, and practice the procedures and skills taught in school and at work at their own pace and in a safe setting using this technology.
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Intellectual Disability, Assistive Devices, Special Need Education.
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(1) Ayesha Ayub
M.Phil. Scholar: Department of Education, University of Management and Technology Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Almas Shoaib
Assistant Professor, Department of Education, University of Management and Technology Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Faisal Amjad
PhD Scholar, Department of Special Education, Division of Education, University of Education, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
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APA : Ayub, A., Shoaib, A., & Amjad, F. (2024). Empowering Students with Intellectual Disability: Role of Assistive Devices. Global Sociological Review, IX(I), 57-63. https://doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2024(IX-I).05
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CHICAGO : Ayub, Ayesha, Almas Shoaib, and Faisal Amjad. 2024. "Empowering Students with Intellectual Disability: Role of Assistive Devices." Global Sociological Review, IX (I): 57-63 doi: 10.31703/gsr.2024(IX-I).05
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HARVARD : AYUB, A., SHOAIB, A. & AMJAD, F. 2024. Empowering Students with Intellectual Disability: Role of Assistive Devices. Global Sociological Review, IX, 57-63.
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MHRA : Ayub, Ayesha, Almas Shoaib, and Faisal Amjad. 2024. "Empowering Students with Intellectual Disability: Role of Assistive Devices." Global Sociological Review, IX: 57-63
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MLA : Ayub, Ayesha, Almas Shoaib, and Faisal Amjad. "Empowering Students with Intellectual Disability: Role of Assistive Devices." Global Sociological Review, IX.I (2024): 57-63 Print.
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OXFORD : Ayub, Ayesha, Shoaib, Almas, and Amjad, Faisal (2024), "Empowering Students with Intellectual Disability: Role of Assistive Devices", Global Sociological Review, IX (I), 57-63
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TURABIAN : Ayub, Ayesha, Almas Shoaib, and Faisal Amjad. "Empowering Students with Intellectual Disability: Role of Assistive Devices." Global Sociological Review IX, no. I (2024): 57-63. https://doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2024(IX-I).05