The importance of making instruction accessible to all learners.

Nicole Myerscough

Peters, A.  (2013, October 7).  Video tutorial: The importance of making instruction accessible to all learners. Retrieved from http://www.techlearning.com/pd-tips/0051/video-tutorial-the-importance-of-making-instruction-accessible-to-all-learners/54301

To allow all learners the dignity of an equal education, regardless of limits to their physical or mental abilities, should be the standard that all school district professionals strive for. In this time of nearly infinite technology, there should be no reasons or roadblocks that would prevent educators and administrators from taking advantage of Assistive Technology tools and trained professionals making instruction accessible to all learners. With such technology and willing professionals experienced in implementing this technology, the dignity of an equal education for all could be realized.

This video is a moving testimony to the difference caring professionals and Assistive Technology can make in the lives of students with disabilities and their families. To realize how far we have come, that students, once limited in what they were able to achieve because of the limits of their physical disabilities, can now participate much the same as their peers, allowing them to succeed with an equal education as a result of educators striving to make instruction accessible, is an incredible achievement.. To know that this technology and these tools are available for all students, would, I hope, compel school district officials to use all resources possible to make Assistive Technology the norm not the exception in their schools.