With the help of cognitive psychologist Dr. Sue Wilkinson, we’ve explored the effects mental ill health can have on cognition and learning. As she highlights, common mental illnesses have more than just an emotional impact — they fundamentally alter how the brain communicates with itself.
So we want to turn our attention to assistive technology for students with cognitive impairments to help you select the right tool for your students.
But as AT specialists, we also want to give you insight into how cognitive impairment figures into our process of creating tools.
To begin with, we believe it helps to understand as much as possible how cognitive impairment affects the day-to-day experience of students in the classroom. So that’s what we want to show you. From this point, it’s much easier to see how AT can be designed to address these problems, and we’ll explain how we developed Audio Notetaker as a case in point.