Mobile Technology and Disability Advocacy

• In Event: Roundtable Session 45
  In Roundtable Session: Disabling Intersections of Gender, Sex Education, and Families

Abstract

This paper reports on the design, development, and implementation of an iPhone/iPod/iPad application (app) called iAdvocate. iAdvocate provides parents a tool they can use to advocate for their children with disabilities. The goal of iAdvocate is to share and develop specific strategies with parents for working collaboratively with a school team to improve their children’s education.

Author

• Charlotte Flynn, Syracuse University