In the website I found, it states "An increasing array of technologies can help personalize instruction for students with special needs...". In doing this, you can meet the curriculum requirements and fulfill the NCLB as well as the Individuals with Disabilities Act but creating an environment that includes both special needs and diverse students as well as "normal" students and making it all more inclusive for everyone.
Some of the things that are listed as technological tools for assistance are digital textbooks that have audio and visual representations of what you would typically find in a standard textbook. Also, a school in Maine provided special needs students with personal laptops and later found that they improved the students ability to work independently and improved their class participation, interaction, and preparation. The final interesting tool that it discusses is a newer technology called soundfield amplification; "wireless infrared technology enhances and distributes the teacher’s voice above background noise in the classroom, making the sound more audible to students". It is said that this allows all the students to understand the discussion and lesson that is being taught.
http://www.edtechactionnetwork.org/schools_special_needs.html
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