title: Adaptive computer education--more than "high-tech".
abstract: Advances in technology have greatly broadened the range of occupational opportunities available to persons with disabilities. While technical devices help in making participation in computer-based work functions possible, a variety of strategies are required to help individuals with special needs prepare for, acquire, and maintain employment. The experience of the Centre for Adaptive Computer Education, a vocational training programme for adults with disabilities, highlights several strategies that have proven effective in helping persons with disabilities to access work training and employment. Techniques used to embrace a number of structural and behavioural approaches to training, including extended training time, individualized curricula, individual tutoring, stress management training, behaviour management, supportive counselling, and promotion in the workplace.
authors.affiliation: School of Occupational Therapy, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Lysaght
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Lloyd
mesh_terms: D003200:Computer User Training / Q000379:methods*; D003479:Curriculum; D003625:Data Collection; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000193:education*; D016832:Employment, Supported; D009674:Nova Scotia; D009788:Occupational Therapy / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016730:Program Development; D012050:Rehabilitation, Vocational / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data