The Hechinger Report
MAY 16, 2017
Matt Huenerfauth (right), director of the Linguistic and Assistive Technologies Laboratory at the Rochester Institute of Technology, records video and motion-capture data from someone performing American Sign Language (ASL). You can’t just make an animated phrase book.”. You can’t just make an animated phrase book.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 10, 2017
Special education high school students used books more appropriate for middle school and never had to write essays of more than a few hundred words. “When they separate you into different classrooms it can just debilitate you,” he said, adding that the content was “dummied down.”
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 21, 2017
Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. Ironically, many families also said that the very technologies designed to help students with disabilities — known as assistive technology — are seldom part of a GNETS education.
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