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Dinah Murray - Getting It: Using Information Technology to Empower People With Communication Difficulties - 9781843103752 - V9781843103752
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Getting It: Using Information Technology to Empower People With Communication Difficulties

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Description for Getting It: Using Information Technology to Empower People With Communication Difficulties Paperback. This book explores how IT can help people with learning and communication difficulties increase their independence, communicate in more direct ways and express themselves as part of society. It examines common problems, and shows how IT can help solve them. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFG; MBP; UYZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 308.

Information technology (IT) has great potential to be an effective and empowering means of communication for people with communication difficulties. Getting IT explores how IT can help such people increase their independence, communicate in more direct ways and express themselves as part of society.

Authors Dinah Murray and Ann Aspinall examine common problems faced by people with learning and communication difficulties - being judged on appearances, encountering impatience from communication partners, problems identifying and understanding key information and difficulties communicating decisions. They show how IT can help solve these problems: for example internet search tools for accessing information at ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843103752
SKU
V9781843103752
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10

About Dinah Murray
Dinah Murray has a PhD in linguistics, is currently a tutor for Birmingham University's distance learning course in autism and has published widely on the topic. She is the editor of Coming Out Asperger: Diagnosis, Disclosure and Self-Confidence, also published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Ann Aspinall has over seven years' experience of working with information communication technology (ICT) with adults ... Read more

Reviews for Getting It: Using Information Technology to Empower People With Communication Difficulties
This book outlines how the use of relatively simple information technology can enable people with major communication problems, actively to take part in and, in some cases, to lead decision - making processes affecting their own lives. The book presents case studies of a small number of people with extreme difficulties who had previously been the recipients of decisions based ... Read more

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