ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at several political issues concerning promotion and provision of new information technology by disabled students, access to it and how it affects their vocational prospects. Governments are not, of course, society as a whole and it is society that has a general duty to look after its disabled members, in many ways. It is a fact, however, that governments have wide roles in encouraging and facilitating provision of the technology and in developing relationships between various interested parties. Thus officials, professionals and parents may all come to consider what information technology can possibly do to meet the educational needs of a particular disabled student. If new information technology brings with it some hope of greater employment in adult life, it will be doubly welcomed by disabled students. There is no doubt that learning to use the technology to overcome or compensate for their own disabilities puts these students in quite strong position to exploit it for employment.
