ICT enables students with learning difficulties to expand their knowledge and understanding of the world by being actively involved in experiencing, investigating, manipulating and using information in a variety of forms including text, symbols, sound, graphics, photographs, music and video. For those with more complex special needs, technology including microcomputers and associated assistive devices provide a variety of tools to increase the probability that they will interact with their world at an autonomous level.

Through ICT, pupils with learning difficulties gain self confidence, social skills, communication skills, gross and fine motor skills, problem solving skills, and a wide range of abilities and knowledge needed to enable them to participate within society.

Across the country, teachers and practitioners are beginning to recognise the power of ICT to overcome barriers to teaching and learning. They are using ICT creatively, opening up whole new worlds of learning, communication and leisure for even the most severely impaired youngsters, empowering and enabling them to achieve to their full potential.

ICT can transform teaching and learning for pupils with learning difficulties.