Information and Communication Technology Profiles of College Students with Learning Disabilities and Adequate and Very Poor Readers
Catherine S. Fichten, Mai Nhu Nguyen, Laura H. King, Maria F. Barile, Alice Havel, Zohra Mimouni, Alexandre Chauvin, Jillian Budd, Odette Raymond, Jean-Charles Juhel, Jennison V. Asuncion · Journal of Education and Learning · 2013
We interviewed 58 experts (30 in French, 28 in English) about potentially useful information and communicationtechnologies (ICTs) for Québec college students with a learning disability (LD) and evaluated whether collegestudents with an LD (n = 74), in fact, used these. We also compared ICT use, learning opportunities, andattitudes among three groups of students from Montreal area French and English language colleges: (1) studentswith an LD, and (2) students who, based on a reading comprehension test, were categorized as adequate readers(approximately top 50%) or (3) very poor readers (approximately bottom 20%). Results indicate importantdiscrepancies between the views of the experts and the realities of students with LDs. Moreover, students with anLD use significantly fewer different types of ICTs than those without an LD.