Determine how to get closed captioning for all television and cable programming. And since it is your 11th international convention, I hope you will permit me to add an 11th wish. I would like to see all the classrooms in America connected to the information highway. This, more than anything else, will ensure the opportunities of the communications revolution are available to all. Link each classroom to the information highway and you link each child, each family, each community.
Networked classrooms can teach kids job skills, certainly.
But especially for children with disabilities, this link is an invaluable way to explore new worlds. It can also offer them chances to work more independently, it can increase their self-esteem. Computers now feature synthetic speech, voice activation, breath activation, virtual reality, and visual icons. All children with disabilities can and should share in all of these promising inventions of the information age. No one thinks Mr. Bell's telephone should have been made available only to those with big bucks.