Technological tools for inclusive education

Abstract

Among the possibilities that the incorporation of information and communication technologies (ICT) offers to education is attention to diversity, since through these tools, access and quality education can be facilitated to students with different special educational needs. There are different types of disabilities (motor disabilities, sensory disabilities and intellectual disabilities) with many different types of manifestations. Students with these types of disabilities face the difficulty of having equal access to education. Despite the fact that progress has been made in terms of integration, this efforts should be increased to achieve it completely.

For this reason, the goal of this work is to make a repository of technological tools and teaching activities for each type of disability and present a pedagogical program for the application of these in specific cases that allow us to use new technologies at the service of integration of students with disabilities. To achieve this goal, an empirical qualitative-descriptive study has been carried out in which a repository of the main existing applications for work with students of various disabilities is presented, analyzing their advantages and disadvantages. The methodology used is based on a design focused on students with different types of disabilities and on teachers as potential users of the repository and the proposed pedagogical programs.