Information Communication Technology to support and include Blind students in a school for all An Interview study of teachers and students’ experiences with inclusion and ICT support to blind students

Abstract

The topic of this is this study is how blind students and teachers experiences Information Communication Technology as a tool to support and include blind students in a school for all. The study investigates how Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) enables blind students to adjust into non-special schools. The research method used to collect data is interview. The goal is to get insight to teachers and students’ experiences with inclusion and ICT as a tool to support blind students in the regular school. The selected sample is teachers of blind students and blind students in Bangladesh. Three blind students and three teachers of blind students are the informants in this study. The experiences of ICT by blind students are compared with teacher`s experiences. The findings form the shows that blind students use ICT as support in their learning process and it helps them to be included in regular school, if their teachers provide adequate ICT materials as support in their teaching practice. The teacher’s experiences shows that they need proper training in matters of using ICT in their teaching practice. The findings from study help to understand the use of ICT for learning and teaching in school for all in Bangladesh. The conclusion of the study is the need for blind students and teachers to get access to ICT and ICT resources. They need also to get access training of how to use ICT as their learning and teaching support.