"Technology and Persons with Disabilities"

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1 PROCEEDINGS of the Seventh Annual Conference "Technology and Persons with Disabilities" Los Angeles Airport Marriott Hotel March 18-21,1992 Sponsored by the Office of Disabled Student Services California State University, Northridge Harry J. Murphy Editor This conference is supported in part by a grant from Pacific Telesis Foundation

2 THE IMPACT OF GRAMMAR CHECKING AND AUDITORY FEEDBACK ON THE WRITING PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES 215 Bonnie L. Haapa and Rena B. Lewis inlarge 2.0 AND BEYOND: RESOURCES FOR MACINTOSH ACCESS FOR PERSONS WITH LOW VISION 221 Janice Hecht and Mike Schutte ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING AN ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY LOAN PROGRAM 227 Donna Heiner, Barbara Wagner, Margaret Doumitt and Robert Rupnow ESTABLISHING AN ADAPTIVE TECHNOLOGY LAB IN A UNIVERSITY SETTING 233 Barbara Heinisch and Janice Hecht MACROS AND SCREEN ACCESS 239 Ted Henter

3 USING EXPERT SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY TO ANTICIPATE ADULT SERVICE NEEDS: PROJECT PASS 245 Bradford W. Hesse SPEECH OUTPUT AND AUGMENTATIVE COMMUNICATION: COGNITIVE PROCESSING AND SOCIAL CONTEXT 251 D. Jeffery Higginbotham and Christine Scally ALTERNATE INPUT DESIGN FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH LIMITED MOBILITY 253 William B. Hudson and Brenda S. Hudson RESPONSIVE ENVIRONMENT 259 David Jaffe ELECTRONIC MAIL IN SERVICE OF THE DISABLED 265 Stanislaw Jakubowski COMPUTER LEARNING LABORATORY PROJECT FACILITATES WRITING AND READING IN SPECIAL NEEDS STUDENTS 267 Vicki Jax, Janice Nakayama and Michelle Windmueller VOICE I/O AND VISUAL DISABILITY: IMPLICATIONS OF THE "WETWARE" 273 Paul Jones A COMPUTERIZED TRAINING PROGRAM TO FACILITATE WORD RETRIEVAL 279 Beth A. Kaufman and Jack Rattok LEARNING ABOUT ANIMALS: FACILITATING MULTIMODALITY LEARNING WITH MULTIACCESS OPTIONS 285 Vicki D. Kay INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS COMMITTEE ON COMPUTER BASED DOCUMENTS FOR PERSONS WITH PRINT DISABILITIES 289 George Kerscher BIOCONTROLLERS FOR THE PHYSICALLY DISABLED: A DIRECT LINK FROM NERVOUS SYSTEM TO COMPUTER 291 R. Benjamin Knapp and Hugh S. Lusted INTEGRATING RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND SERVICE PROGRAMS 295 Joseph P. Lane

4 A DEVELOPMENTAL PROGRAM: COMPUTER ABILITY PROGRAM FORDISABLED STUDENTS 301 Rhoda Leshowitz UPDATING THE EYEGAZE LANGUAGE BOARD WITH SOFTWARE DESIGN 305 Fran Lexcen SOCIAL INTEGRATION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: EVALUATING THE ROLE OF I.T 309 S. E. Little and J. A. M. Earls FINGERTIP MAPTRACING DEVICES FOR THE BLIND 315 Peter Loubal SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT FOR PEOPLE IN THE NORDIC COUNTRIES 319 Magnus Magnusson STILL PICTURE TELEPHONY FOR PEOPLE WITH APHASIA 325 Magnus Magnusson VIRTUAL REALITIES: FROM THE CONCRETE TO THE BARELY IMAGINABLE 331 Stephen Marcus COMMUNICATION FOR THE TRACHEOSTOMIZED AND VENTILATOR PATIENT UTILIZING THE PASSY-MUIR VALVE 335 M. Mason, C. Watkins and P. Romey QUALITY ASSURANCE: ELECTRONIC MEASURES 341 Jim McLaughlin THE IMPORTANCE OF SOUND, ANIMATION AND VARIETY IN SOFTWARE PROGRAMS DESIGNED TO TEACH DISABLED PRESCHOOL CHILDREN 347 Deborah McPheeters and Jo Meyer ELECTRONIC WRITING TOOLS FOR THE RELUCTANT WRITER 353 Molly Mead MATCHING VIRTUAL REALITY SOLUTIONS TO SPECIAL NEEDS 359 Teresa Middleton

5 COOPERATIVE LEARNING AT THE COMPUTER USING THE MULTIPLE SWITCH BOX: INTEGRATION ACTIVITIES 367 Caroline Musselwhite and Terry Hamman ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY EVALUATION AND TRAINING IN A HOSPITAL SETTING: THE FIRST SIX MONTHS 373 Nancy McClure Naishtat TELECOMMUNICATIONS-FROM DEPENDENCY TO AUTONOMY 377 Karen Nobunaga and Joan Marie Brown SPECIALIZED TEXT SCREEN READERS FOR STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES 379 Marcia Norris THE EFFECTS OF COMPUTER-BASED LANGUAGE INTERVENTION WITH SEVERELY DISABLED CHILDREN 385 Lisa O'Connor and Linda Spaw APPLICATION OF SMART SCREEN TECHNOLOGY IN TEXT-BASED VOICE OUTPUT SCREEN ACCESS PROGRAMS 391 Charles Oppermann THE VIIS PROGRAM: DIGITAL'S VENTURE INTO DOCUMENTATION ACCESSIBILITY 397 Michael G. Paciello AN OVERVIEW AND COMPARISON OF TEXT RETRIEVAL METHODS WITH HYPERTEXT BASED SOFTWARE 401 Ron M. Parker A SURVEY OF FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH STUDENT COMPUTER USE IN RESOURCE SPECIALIST PROGRAMS 407 Rebecca Ann Penso ADAPTIVE TECHNOLOGY IN HIGHER EDUCATION: TAPPING THE SOURCE 411 Susan Phillips, Jean Anderson and Norman Coombs COMPUTER EVALUATION OF VISUAL THREE DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS 417 Jack Rattok

6 HIGH TECH CAREER TRAINING THROUGH COOPERATIVE MAINSTREAMING 421 Anne Reiss and Sherry Goldsmith A DEVELOPER'S TOOLKIT FOR ACCESSING THE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE 425 Joseph Robinson, Peter Korn and Joshua Miele LIBERATOR (tm): AN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 431 Barry Romich WHAT'S NEW AT PRC? 435 Barry Romich ACCESS FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES THROUGH HYPERMEDIA AND VIRTUAL REALITY 437 Alice Rose AN INTRODUCTION TO outspoken FOR PERSONS UNFAMILIAR WITH THE MACINTOSH 443 Amy Rubin and Marc Sutton