Artificial Intelligence and Sensor Technologies the Future of Special Education for Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Abstract

Learning environments such as classrooms and online systems for students with developmental or intellectual disabilities are typically dynamic, multisensory, and make use of top-down attention and working memory mechanisms to promote sense making by the student. This is specifically true when the student with intellectual disabilities is mainstreamed into a general education classroom. The complex interactions between the classroom, the student, and the content creates serious difficulty in assessing a student’s understanding, particularly for students who are non-verbal or have deficits in communication. However, the last five years have ushered a revolution in computational power, brain mapping, wearable sensors use, large scale data collection, generative artificial intelligence, and physiological signal processing techniques e.g., the 4th industrial revolution