AI is a game changer for students with disabilities. Schools are still learning to harness it

The Associated Press quotes Venu Govindaraju in an article about how AI is helping students with disabilities. UB’s National AI Institute for Exceptional Education, which did pioneering work on handwriting recognition that helped the U.S. Postal Service save hundreds of millions of dollars by automating processing, is working with the same technology to decipher students’ handwriting. “We are able to solve the postal application with very high accuracy. When it comes to children’s handwriting, we fail very badly,” said Govindaraju. He sees it as an area that needs more work, along with speech-to-text technology, which isn’t as good at understanding children’s voices, particularly if there is a speech impediment.”