Accessible Digital Textbooks Jamaica
Creating digital tools to enable inclusive education
Highlights
In the Latin America and Caribbean region, more than 19 million children have a disability. In Jamaica, disability is a major factor of exclusion from the education system. The Accessible Digital Textbooks for All (ADT) initiative, implements accessible digital tools and content to make learning accessible to all students – with and without disabilities – in the same classroom.
This report presents the research results of the ADT prototypes testing for children with and without disabilities in Jamaica. The report provides results across three areas:
- It analyses teachers’ and students’ familiarity with technology, including their experience utilizing technology to support education and learning.
- It investigates the pedagogical practices used for inclusive education and to integrate the ADT prototypes as tools to support inclusion and learning.
- It recommends ways to improve the prototypes and outlines elements needed for their further development, implementation and scale-up in the education system.
This study is part of longer-term research that examines the implementation of accessible digital textbooks in multiple countries. Future research aims to explore the impact of the use of ADTs on both student learning and inclusion on a larger scale.
