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Interactive Whiteboards As A Tool For Teaching Students With Autism Spectrum Disorders, Irina Verenikina, Kathleen Tanner, Roselyn Dixon, Elleni De Graaf Dec 2011

Interactive Whiteboards As A Tool For Teaching Students With Autism Spectrum Disorders, Irina Verenikina, Kathleen Tanner, Roselyn Dixon, Elleni De Graaf

Rose Dixon

This paper presents part of a research study on the affordances of digital technologies in the learning of students with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) undertaken in the Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong. The study is framed around the understanding of modern digital technologies, and Interactive Whiteboards (IWBs) in particular, as cognitive tools for teaching and learning based on the theory of social and cultural mediation of children’s development and learning (Vygotsky, 1978; Engestrom, 2001). The view of the IWB as a teaching and learning tool is twofold: firstly, the IWB is analysed as a tool that can be used …


Best Practice News: School Psychologist Wins Book Award, Lee Wilkinson May 2011

Best Practice News: School Psychologist Wins Book Award, Lee Wilkinson

Lee A Wilkinson, PhD

No abstract provided.


Pragmatics, Lee Wilkinson Dec 2010

Pragmatics, Lee Wilkinson

Lee A Wilkinson, PhD

No abstract provided.


Mindblindness, Lee Wilkinson Dec 2010

Mindblindness, Lee Wilkinson

Lee A Wilkinson, PhD

No abstract provided.


Capella University Sponsors Autism Event, Lee Wilkinson Dec 2010

Capella University Sponsors Autism Event, Lee Wilkinson

Lee A Wilkinson, PhD

Dr. Lee Wilkinson, a faculty member with the online school’s Harold Abel School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, provides practical tips for working with people with autism