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Assistive Technology: Enabling Dreams

From voice-activated software to customized laptops, tech changing the way disabled students communicate, learn, and play. More to this story.


February 2, 2005

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From voice-activated software to customized laptops, tech changing the way disabled students communicate, learn, and play. More to this story. [1]
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Assistive Technology: Enabling Dreams [7]

From voice-activated software to customized laptops, tech is changing the way disabled students communicate, learn, and play.

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Video Credits

Produced, Written, and Directed by

  • Ken Ellis

Associate Producer:

  • Miwa Yokoyama

Editor:

  • Karen Sutherland

Camera Crew:

  • Rob Weller
  • Michael Curtiss
  • Ken Ellis
  • Peak Video Productions
  • Mike Stine

Narrator:

  • Kris Welch

Additional Footage Courtesy of:

  • Robin Amend
  • Kristy Bratcher
  • Tom Engdahl Video Productions
  • DO-IT!
  • KHQ-TV
  • KXLY News4
  • © 2005
  • The George Lucas Educational Foundation
  • All rights reserved.
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[1] http://www.edutopia.org/assistivetechnology
[2] http://www.edutopia.org/edward-r-murrow-technology-visually-impaired
[3] http://www.edutopia.org/new-ways-seeing
[4] http://www.edutopia.org/assistive-technology-lukas-bratcher
[5] http://www.edutopia.org/assistive-technology-albano-berberi-video
[6] http://www.edutopia.org/technology-visually-impaired-video
[7] http://www.edutopia.org/assistive-technology-enabling-dreams-video

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