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Touchscreen Tech Boosts Literacy In Deaf Children

Technology tools can be instrumental in teaching literacy skills to children with hearing issues and/or other learning needs, as this article shows.

Touchscreen tech helps people with disabilities

Some parents and educators are reserved about using iPads in early-years education. Moderation and context are advised in such settings but if an iPad device helps develop a child’s language as above, it is potentially priceless.

Further Reading

  • Digital Readers (eReaders) Improve Child Literacy
  • Deaf Preschoolers’ Literacy Benefits From E-Books
  • IDK’s E-Learning Posts For Digital Schools Week
  • Listening & Speaking: A Link To Reading/Writing?
  • Making Literacy And Classroom Tools Accessible
Sep 29, 2011Team Sound Advice

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  1. Sound Advice
    10 years ago

    Child experts disagree on under-twos using smartphones, tablets and PCs to learn with touchscreens: http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/24/is-your-child-under-age-2-keep-them-away-from-smartphones-tablets-and-computers/

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