Pedagogic Assistant: a New Job to Help Students in Handicap Situation

This study investigates the relationship between students with visual disabilities and their peers and between students with visual disabilities and their teachers during training assisted by educative informatics. Information and Communication Technologies will sometimes necessitate the cooperation of the teachers or the peers. Interviews of ten students with visual disabilities highlight the importance of this cooperation. Even if the development of adapted educative informatics technologies and handicap legislative framework have progressed these last ten years, difficulties of students in handicap situation are often unknown. Because each student with visual disabilities best knows his needs, he should have a central position to define the adaptations required to help him.