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What is People With Disabilities (PWDs)

Next Generation Digital Tools and Applications for Teaching and Learning Enhancement
A group of Persons with disabilities include those who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairment.
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Disability, Culture, and Technology: Issues, Challenges, and Applications in the Ghanaian Classroom
Sefakor Grateful-Miranda Ama Komabu-Pomeyie (The University of Vermont, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1770-3.ch009
Abstract
Ghana has many interventions or systems to eradicate poverty among vulnerable people, especially those with disabilities. Ghana's Parliament launched the Social Protection Program in conformity with the United Nations Convention on the Right of People with Disabilities (UNCRPD) as well as the Disability Law of Ghana. One of these programs is the Social Protection Program, under which rehabilitation and RLG ICT training of People with Disabilities (PWDs) have been implemented in the classroom. The main goal of this program is to educate PWDs, granting them employable skills and thereby enabling them to become independent citizens. This chapter, which is related to one of the recommended topics, “Issues and Challenges of Digital Tools and Applications in the Classroom,” draws on and employs a phenomenological approach to confirm the lack of culturally responsiveness of technology to the Ghanaian disability community. Participants indicated they were disconnected from the program because the technological devices were foreign and not connected to their indigenous culture.
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