The above authors, all from the Department of Adult Education, Nottingham University, have developed computerbased education and training for disabled adults in six centres in the East Midlands. In its service to the students -if not in its resoureingit is a model for others to follow.New information technology offers striking opportunities to many people with disabilities (Ridgeway and McKears, 1985;Hawkridge et al., 1985). The NewLink Project Jotham, 1987;Cooke et al., 1987) attempts to provide educational and training opportunities to disabled adults with a variety of individual needs within a single local information technology resource base with good disabled access. NewLink operates now at six such bases distributed through a region with a total population of over two million. Typically each NewLink centre has been equipped with six to eight BBC microcomputers, plus a small but growing number of more commercially-oriented machines. Each centre has also been provided with a range of hardware aids for those with more severe disabilities and a large library of software and associated training materials.
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