Introduction Assistive technology serves to help people with disabilities obtain, maintain, and advance in employment. Assistive technology is a generic term for devices that increase a person’s function, independence, participation and productivity in society or to perform activities that would otherwise be labeled as difficult, dangerous or impossible. Providing effective technology services is essential to increase positive employment outcomes. Due to a lack of information about assistive technology
Assistive technology (AT) is any device, piece of equipment or system that helps a person with a disability work around his challenges so he can learn, communicate or simply function better. Though the word “technology,” is used many AT tools are low-tech. AT tools range from simple adaptive tools like highlighters and organizers to high-tech tools like text-to-speech software for those with sight challenging concerns.(Ref: Assistive Technology: What It Is and How It Works By The Understood Team)
The use of assistive technologies has become an important rehabilitation strategy to support functioning in adults and children with physical impairments and their participation in everyday life. [6] Adults who suffer from motor impairments due to severe brain damages, may lose their mobility, coordination, leisure skills, and vocational skills. In order to address these issues, many technologies designed to support and help physically impaired individuals to achieve their mobility and restore their
Assistive Technology (AT) is technology that an individual with a disability uses to help them to perform functions that may be challenging for him/herself to complete. Assistive technology may be any item, equipment, software, or t system that is used to improve, maintain, or advance the functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities. Assistive Technology is changing the way special education classrooms work and has provided many new opportunities to persons with disabilities. It provides