This practical new guide is designed to help school officials put students and staff with disabilities on a "level playing field" with everyone else, in computer labs, in libraries, and in classrooms. Rather than merely focusing on specific types of hardware and software, the authors discuss how to set up the infrastructure necessary to provide technology and support. They cover computer access issues, as well as the use of computer-based compensatory tools - special adaptive technology designed to enable individuals with disabilities to participate more independently in the academic environment. The authors describe which services should be provided, how to plan them, and the types of equipment available to meet different needs. They also offer examples of seven model programs now in place in libraries and on university campuses. Additional resources on adaptive technology are listed in the appendixes. This book will serve as an excellent guide for college and university administrators, computer lab staff, librarians, disabled student services staff, and faculty members.
Husband and wife writers share their thoughts on life, family, middle age, old age and death. In a collection of personal stories, the authors talk about the world they were born into - and the world they find themselves inhabiting many decades later. This book may seem like it's about them and the people who populate their lives, but it's really about all of us. Come Rain or Come Shine, Book Two of a small series called "Live, Laugh, Love, Weep, Wail and Wonder," picks up where their first book, On the Sunny Side of the Street, left off. This two-book series is an un-chronological theme-based collection of stories about the stages of life - and how much joy and pain we can wring from each stage. Come Rain or Come Shine asks the question: Is middle age really the dividing line between youth and old age? And when, exactly, does middle age begin? More importantly, when does it end - throwing us into that realm of old age? How do we make middle age relevant? Even more challenging, how do we make old age relevant? We must die with our boots on, the writers contend. But how the heck do you do that when you've been relegated to the "older generation" table at weddings, when you've just retired from long and interesting careers, and when you've moved to a 55 and up community? The richness of life almost always comes from the people we share it with. But the truth is, the older we get, the fewer of those people there are around. If we're lucky, there's a lot of good memories tucked away with the people we've loved and lost. If we're really lucky, we can still conjure them up and enjoy them one more time. And finally, Come Rain or Come Shine considers that little bit of magic that we all seem to find here and there along the way.
This practical new guide is designed to help school officials put students and staff with disabilities on a "level playing field" with everyone else, in computer labs, in libraries, and in classrooms. Rather than merely focusing on specific types of hardware and software, the authors discuss how to set up the infrastructure necessary to provide technology and support. They cover computer access issues, as well as the use of computer-based compensatory tools - special adaptive technology designed to enable individuals with disabilities to participate more independently in the academic environment. The authors describe which services should be provided, how to plan them, and the types of equipment available to meet different needs. They also offer examples of seven model programs now in place in libraries and on university campuses. Additional resources on adaptive technology are listed in the appendixes. This book will serve as an excellent guide for college and university administrators, computer lab staff, librarians, disabled student services staff, and faculty members.
African Video Movies and Global Desires is the first full-length scholarly study of Ghana’s commercial video industry, an industry that has produced thousands of movies over the last twenty years and has grown into an influential source of cultural production. Produced and consumed under circumstances of dire shortage and scarcity, African video movies narrate the desires and anxieties created by Africa’s incorporation into the global cultural economy. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research conducted in Ghana over a ten-year period, as well as close readings of a number of individual movies, this book brings the insights of historical context as well as literary and film analysis to bear on a range of movies and the industry as a whole. Garritano makes a significant contribution to the examination of gender norms and the ideologies these movies produce. African Video Movies and Global Desires is a historically and theoretically informed cultural history of an African visual genre that will only continue to grow in size and influence.
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