ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the assistive technology for learning as technology that adapts according to the learner's needs for learning. It identifies the three different main models of assistive technology: the tutor model, the learner model, and the content model. These three adaptive models are not exclusive. This kind of assistive technology for cognition (ATC) will be at the core of new e-books and e-learning materials, and should be especially useful for children with difficulties in learning. The ATC applications reviewed above are challenging the traditional ways education and rehabilitation of numerical cognition have been conducted, as may new knowledge on neuroscientific approaches, which can directly affect neural activation during learning. The chapter presents a case study that illustrates the adaptivity of the learning program, the path through the skill net and the training success in subtraction in the number range 0-100 is analyzed for two different children, Anne and Jane.
