Usage of informational technologies in teaching of children with special educational needs: experience of the USA

Abstract

In the article experience of the American teachers is analysed in relation to the use of information technologies in-process with children with the special educational necessities in the conditions of inclusive studies. As introduction in Ukraine of inclusive studies and change of the system of education on the whole clashed with intensive development of digital communications. Consequently the important task of modern school is become by plenitude of the use of possibilities of information technologies, their potential, in the studies of children with the special educational necessities. Actuality is acquired by a study and clever application of experience of the American teachers, consonant to the world tendencies of the renewed approaches education in Ukraine. The theoretical and methodological foundations, the state and trends of the use of information technologies in the education of students with special educational needs in the USA for their successful use in the conditions of the inclusive educational environment of Ukraine are analyzed. It is proved that the use of the potential of information technologies, both mean of studies and method of capture, by them on a due levels, becomes major tasks of preparation of modern specialists. It is argued that the educational process should be organized in such a way that every child, with problems of physical / mental health or with "typical" development, has had the opportunity to perform tasks at a pace convenient for him and could demonstrate his own achievements.
Generalized, that problems, which limit the use of information technologies in education of children with the special educational requirements in the USA, mostly universal, that is general on the way of informatization of education in a country on the whole, at the same time they are alike with obstacles which brake informatization of domestic education. Consequently preparation of teachers acquires actuality exactly in relation to forming for them of digital competence and application of information technologies in-process with children by the special educational necessities; decision of problem of availability of the high-quality special software; an account of sanitary-hygenic requirements is in relation to work of child with a computer. So the study of the experience of American scholars and practitioners has an undeniable value for native education, in which information technology is beginning to be widely used, especially in small cities and in rural areas.