Special Needs.

Overview & Synopsis

This document contains the following papers on special needs instruction and technology: (1) "Hawaii Special Education Teacher Induction" (Kalena Oliva and Quinn Avery); (2) "The Impact of Group v Individual Use of Hypermedia-Based Instruction" (Lewis R. Johnson, Louis P. Semrau, and Gail E. Fitzgerald); (3) "Assistive Technology Meets Instructional Technology: A Standards-Based Approach to Implementation in Teacher Education" (Joyce Pittman); (4) "Infusing Technology into a Preservice Teacher Education Program for Special Educators" (Evelyn M. Dailey); (5) "Web Enabled Teaching Aid for Non-Orthographic Languages" (Georgios Kouroupetroglou, Constantinos Viglas, and Christina Metaxaki-Eossionidis); (6) "Special Needs Software Evaluation: Choosing the Right One" (James W. Forgan, Roberta K. Weber, and Perry L. Schoon); (7) "Effective Technology Practices in an Inclusion Classroom: A Proposed Teacher Training Model" (Tandra Tyler-Wood, Joyce Rademacher, and Mark Mortensen); and (8) "Teaching Faculty and Future Teachers about Web Site Accessibility: Issues and Challenges" (Pamela Luft and Drew Tiene). Individual papers contain references. (MES)