Hill, an author, resource specialist, and teacher who has worked with students with learning disabilities, supplies a guide to using tablet technology with children with special needs. She draws on interviews with teachers, parents, and assistive technology professionals, and her experiences with students, to detail the features of tablets and how they capture a child's attention; the special needs associated with sensory, social, and physical difficulties; learning differences like autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, hearing and vision impairment, intellectual disability, and traumatic brain injury and their associated needs, and apps that can be useful in each situation; how to introduce, explain, and use tablets at home and school; how to adapt tablets to individual children using add-ons and accessories; and specific tablets, add-ons like keyboards and styluses, and apps for specific learning skills. Annotation 2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
