Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Engaging children with special needs: a case study of St Luke's (16 Oct 2005) There have been unexpected benefits to the use of video-conferencing, says John: "We've noticed that some autistic children have problems making eye contact. However, using video-conferencing, they do make eye contact." The school is going to take part in research by Hertfordshire University this year to investigate how video-conferencing might be used effectively with autistic learners. Similarly, deaf pupils have responded very well to the technology because it is such a visual medium - during the session with the National Portrait Gallery, some of the deaf children were so engaged in the lesson they physically reached out and touched the projected image of objects on the screen. Article URL: http://www.nestafuturelab.org/viewpoint/art61.htm Read 138 more articles from NESTA Futurelab sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Killer apps for mobile phones - an educational view          Books about Usability | Information Architecture | Information Visualisation | Technology History This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy