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Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities
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Helping Persons with Disabilities to Become Literate Using Assistive Technology

Practice and Policy Suggestions

Patsy L. Pierce

Patsy L. Pierce holds a doctorate in early childhood special education and has been a practicing speech—language pathologist since 1982. Address: Patsy L. Pierce, Division of MH/DD/SAS, 325 N. Salisbury St., Raleigh, NC 27603.

Patricia B. Porter

Patricia B. Porter, MA, is currently the chief of developmental disability services with the North Carolina Department of Human Resources.

Face-to-face communication supports for persons with disabilities appear to be more readily available than the assistive technology, educational, and policy-based strategies needed to develop the written communication abilities of this population. Changes in understanding of how one becomes literate, as well as advances in assistive technology development and use, open doors to building needed supports for helping persons with disabilities to become as literate as possible. The current article summarizes and synthesizes the existing research on assisting persons with disabilities to become literate, highlighting the use of assistive technology to help achieve this goal. Policy development and implementation toward this end is also discussed.

Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, Vol. 11, No. 3, 142-146 (1996)
DOI: 10.1177/108835769601100303
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