The Children's Partnership

Helping OUr Children with disabilities Succeed: What's Broadband got to do with it?

By Jessica Rothschuh and April KirkHart with Wendy Lazarus
July 2007

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The second in a series on how broadband benefits children, this issue brief examines how children with disabilities use broadband and other technologies. The report concludes that while technology gives children with special needs new opportunities, they are substantially less likely than their peers without disabilities to have access to computers, the Internet, and accessible and assistive technology.

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