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El Salvador's education ministry has folded computers with adaptive hardware and software for blind and low-vision students into its national device-distribution programme — reaching special-education schools among the 5,200 public schools slated for the 2026 rollout.
In May 2022, El Salvador's Ministry of Education launched a US$3 million programme to equip students with visual, motor, intellectual and communication disabilities with adaptive computers, starting with 268 students at the San Jacinto Special Education School in San Salvador, with UNICEF providing technical assistance.
That pilot has since been folded into a nationwide school-device rollout distributing tablets and laptops to more than 1.2 million students across roughly 5,200 public schools (over US$1 billion in technology equipment overall). At least 30 special-education schools, including the Centro Escolar para Ciegos Eugenia Viuda de Dueñas, are receiving devices with hardware and software adaptations for blind and low-vision users, with distribution beginning in February 2026.
Independent, disability-specific outcome data -- such as usage rates or literacy gains among students receiving adaptive devices -- has not been published; the public reporting available describes distribution and investment figures rather than measured learning results.
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