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 The Positive Impact of Assistive Technology in Our World Today

                Assistive technology has so many uses in our society today. It can be used as an alarm to keep elderly people safe in their own homes, or as a way to integrate special needs students into a diverse classroom in school. In the same way, assistive technology can be used to help people with a traumatic injury to recover more quickly and learn to work with the new way that their body works. Assistive technology is used to help people with overcoming their disabilities and being able to live life to the fullest.

            I will begin by describing the impact of assistive technology on special needs students in the classroom. As diverse classrooms of all types of students, gifted and special needs and anyone in between, continue to become more prevalent, assistive technology is beginning to be seen more and more frequently. Assistive technology is any device used to help individuals overcome their disabilities. This technology allows for students with learning, cognitive, developmental, and intellectual disabilities to be able to actively participate and learn in the typical classroom.