The Benefits of Virtual Technology in Education for Children with Special Needs

1.0 Introduction

Education for children with special needs (disabled children) is the field of education that uses virtual reality to overcome the problems and defects in an artificial environment. Special education in Malaysia was started in 1920 by a handful of volunteers involved in the development of the deaf and blind school. There are three statutory bodies involved in the development of special education in Malaysia Ministry of Health, Ministry of National Unity and Development of the Community, and Ministry of Education Malaysia. Term children with disabilities are commonly used to refer to children of physical, sensory, cognitive, or mental health intelectual. The use of virtual reality in the context of education enable the provision of cognitive and affective learning for teachers and students. The types of disability is spinal injuries, down syndrome, cerebral palsy, asperger's syndrome and acquired brain injury. Studies on a variety of literature (Levin,2011; Abas & Zaman, 2010; Chien & Ting, 2010; Sanchez, Tadres, Pascual-Leone & Merabey, 2009; Richard, Billaudeau, Richard & Gaudin, 2007; Lanyi, Geist, Karolyi, Tilinger & Magyar, 2006 ) used for virtual reality helps in learning for disabled children.

2.0 Literature Review

Applications of virtual reality have been used in the re-establishment by providing children with the special requirement. For example when play toy that should be fine and not harm the children (2011). According to (Campbell, 2006), virtual environments have the potentials with children that have disability in term of cerebral palsy and hold great guarantee as a new affective involvement in order to getting your strength back self-competence and motor performance. The virtual environments also h...

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