IT Technologies in Teaching Foreign Languages to People with Disabilities

Abstract The following study aims at presenting IT tools that can facilitate the learning process for teachers and students with low vision or blindness. It also aims to raise awareness for an essential matter called education inclusion. Teaching English for non-native speakers with visual impairment or blind is considered to be one of the challenges that students with disabilities (SWD) face during the educational period. Language is defined as a system of communication based on spoken or written text that consists of structured words in a certain way that refers to a specific meaning, in some cases (for some languages which we don’t have the script for it) we don’t possess the text but the sounds are correlated to the image in the mind of the speaker and the listener. Regarding students with low vision or blind that may confuse them as for them, there’s no previous perception of image reflection on the ground. This increases the load on the shoulders of teachers and parents therefore this paper could be used as a source of information for the existing assistive tools to help both teachers and learners.