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teaching and consultation.
Assistive Technology and Digital Media
As part of its mandate to strive for equitable access to the core and
Expanded Core curricula for students with visual impairments, PRCVI works
in partnership with Special Education Technology – BC (SET-BC). SET-BC is
a provincial resource program that works collaboratively with BC public
school districts and independent schools to build capacity around technology
use to support learning. In addition to school- and classroom-based
initiatives, SET-BC also provides technology solutions to individual learners. It
is at this tier of support that students with visual impairments gain access to
specialized devices such as room-viewing
systems and braille notetakers.
With effective assistive technology solutions in place, students with visual
impairments in BC may also access the Accessible Resource Centre – BC
(ARC-BC). ARC-BC aims to provide BC students with perceptual disabilities
with access to digital format materials based on the BC curriculum. ARC-BC
currently has 5623 registered users with access to
104,742 individual files, including Kurzweil and adapted
PDF formats.
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