Digital Youth with Disabilities

by Meryl Alper and Assistant Professor Meryl Alper

An examination of media and technology use by school-aged youth with disabilities, with an emphasis on media use at home.

Most research on media use by young people with disabilities focuses on the therapeutic and rehabilitative uses of technology; less attention has been paid to their day-to-day encounters with media and technology--the mundane, sometimes pleasurable and sometimes frustrating experiences of "hanging out, messing around,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262527154
• ISBN13: 9780262527156
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher