Ch 4: Emerging and Assistive Technologies and the Future

Chapter four of Bitter and Legacy's book, Using Technology in the Classroom, explains how quickly technology is changing and developing as assistive tools.  Computers are here to stay and changing rapidly to the point of outdating themselves in a matter of a few years.  Computers are getting more compact yet memory capacity is increasing.  Computers prices are decreasing while computer usages are increasing.  Break through technology not only has enhanced the computer preferences but also their assistive capability.  Emerging assistive technology can assist four types of impairments; hearing, speech, vision, and cognitive.