The Dialectic Nature of Technology and Holism: Use of Technology to Liberate Individuals with Learning Disabilities

Abstract

Technology, one of the gifts of reductionistic thinking, can be used holistically to liberate students with learning disabilities from many of their struggles with text while they are learning to read and write or to circumvent these struggles entirely throughout their lives if necessary. Technological occupations also offer possibilities for people with learning disabilities. It may well be that using technology in assistive, compensatory, and occupational manners will also produce better readers and writers. Certainly, it can greatly alleviate the problems of not acquiring information about the world while struggling with text.