ICT Development in Education & Special Education

Education is a vital part of growing up. Everyone goes through the education system to help carve a path towards their future self and what career they want to focus on as they get older. However what most people becomeconfused on is the difference between “general education” and “special education.” General education is theeducation provided to students who physically attend school. Now special education is the education provided by the school plus extra programs and services to help aid and guide the students through the general education.Special Education is defined as “the means through which children who have disabilities receive an educationspecifically designed to help them reach their learning potential” (Friend ).ICT in education is becoming increasigly important and has potential advantages to disabled learners if the technolgies are appropriately designed including for accessibility and usability and used. This paper presents the first sets of recommendations for learningtechnologies for disabled people aimed at disabled learners teachers developers and educational institutionsrespectively. They were developed as part of the work of the Enable Network for ICT Learning for Disabled People and involved input from both experts and end-users. The concise format facilitates production in a variety of formats and languages for accessibility and wide distribution. The paper discusses the recommendations and their relationship to existing guidelines. The results indicated that these students felt ready to use the technology resources in their studies. However they did not receive support by the teachers and they noticed differences in approachdepending on the stage of the educational course and the type of disability. This book has been written for theeducation of Divyang people on ICT and communication which includes the use of ICT in their education what is the use of ICT what is the importance of ICT how can it contribute how can we help Divyang people to become self-dpendent authors are publishing articles on various aspects in it which will not only help in bringingfundamental changes in the education of Divyangs but also in their lives so that not only India but the interest towards ICT will come from it how can we simplify and improve our education various people have given their views.