MULTIMEDIA STORYBOOK ABOUT TECHNOLOGY AND DISABILITIES

该项目将设计，开发，并现场测试一个互动 多媒体节目加强儿童使用科技的意识 残障人士。这些信息将以故事书的形式呈现。 使用CD-ROM技术格式化。目标受众将是拥有 残疾人、他们的老师、治疗师、父母和非残疾同龄人。 该节目将以一名残疾儿童为特色；儿童读物将 将涉及这个孩子和他/她对技术的使用。 一个以计算机为基础的交互式多媒体程序将围绕 这个故事情节使用了视频、动画、声音和图形。CD-ROM 技术将被用作存储和展示媒体。每个人 这本书的页面将以计算机屏幕的形式呈现，并将以 辅助技术在每个领域的不同使用会影响儿童的 生活-认知、自助、社交、交流、职业、流动性、 和休闲。故事将通过数字化语音阅读。当特定时 屏幕的区域由用户选择，这是各种事件之一 将发生：将播放声音或音乐，将对象设置为动画， 照片将“弹出”，或播放一段视频剪辑。规定将是 可供选择的替代方法-视频和音频的字幕 描述。用户可以在以下方面探索辅助技术的使用 以激动人心的故事书形式呈现的领域。一个培训模块将是 开发的目的是为教师、治疗师和 父母。

This project will design, develop, and field test an interactive multimedia program to enhance awareness of uses of technology by children with disabilities. The information will be presented in a story.book format using CD-ROM technology. The target audience will be students with disabilities, their teachers, therapists, parents, and non-disabled peers. The program will feature a child with disabilities; a children's book will be written that will involve this child and his/her uses of technology. A computer-based interactive multimedia program will be developed around this story line using video, animation, sound, and graphics. CD-ROM technology will be employed as the storage and presentation medium. Each page of the book will be presented as a computer screen and will feature various uses of assistive technology in each domain that affects a child's life - cognitive, self-help, social, communication, vocational, mobility, and leisure. The story will be read via digitized voice. When specific areas of the screens are selected by the user, one of a variety of events will.occur: sounds or music will be played, objects will be animated, photographs will "pop up," or a video clip will play. Provisions will be made for alternative methods of selection - captioning of video and audio description. Users can explore the uses of assistive technology across domains in a motivating storybook format. A training module will be developed to provide further information to teachers, therapists, and parents.