THE IMPORTANCE OF USING ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN THE TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCESS OF A STUDENT WITH CEREBRAL PALSY—ANANINDEUA, PA

Abstract

This article aims to explain what cerebral palsy is, its causes, and its severity levels, and to describe an experience with the inclusion of a teenage girl with cerebral palsy in a mainstream classroom, emphasizing the importance of assistive technologies for this student’s teaching and learning process during the 2014 school year, after carrying out various diverse activities involving the student in her classroom setting, which yielded significant results in her learning. To demonstrate that the role of the educator in this new teaching perspective is to create and seek out new teaching methodologies, finding strategies amid the challenges to make the classroom more engaging and participatory. And through education, to provide students with disabilities with a more meaningful learning experience. Thus breaking with obsolete paradigms and enabling them to actively participate in the socio-political-historical-cultural processes of present-day and future society.