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Helping Our Children With Disabilities Succeed: What's Broadband Got To Do With It?
Publication Date: July 2007
Publisher(s): Children's Partnership
Author(s): Jessica Rothschuh; Wendy Lazarus; April KirkHart
Funder(s): California Wellness Foundation; Community Technology Foundation of California
Funder(s): California Wellness Foundation; Community Technology Foundation of California
Topic: Media, telecommunications, and information (Electronic data processing, transmission, and retrieval)
Science and technology (Computer science and information technology)
Keywords: digital opportunity; disabled children; broadband
Type: Brief
Abstract:
The second in a series on how broadband benefits children, this issue brief examines how children with disabilities use broadband and other technologies. The report concludes that while technology gives children with special needs new opportunities, they are substantially less likely than their peers without disabilities to have access to computers, the Internet, and accessible and assistive technology.