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Perspectives on a mobile application that maps assistive technology resources in Africa

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Disability, 2019
Background: Access to assistive technology (AT) is poor in African countries because of a lack of knowledge, resources, services and products. A mobile application, the AT-Info-Map, was developed to map AT availability in southern Africa.
Surona Visagie   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Germline TP53 Mutations Causing Diamond–Blackfan Anemia: A French Report

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Diamond–Blackfan anemia is a rare congenital erythroblastopenia typically caused by mutations in ribosomal protein genes. Recently, gain‐of‐function mutations in TP53 have been identified as a novel cause of Diamond–Blackfan anemia. We report two French patients who both harbored a heterozygous TP53 deletion (NM_000546.5: c.1077delA; p ...
Rafael Moisan   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Everyday Assistive Products Support Participation in Sport

open access: yesDisabilities
The benefits of participation in sport are widespread, and include not only improved health and wellness, but also support social participation and the realization of rights. Research on the use of assistive products in sport participation has previously
Ana Geppert   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Transformation of vocational skills for doormat craftsmen from persons with disabilities using assistive technology

open access: yesJurnal Pendidikan Vokasi, 2022
Vocational skills in an inclusive society are needed in business trips within an organization. The Mitra Sejahtera Center for Disability Empowerment (PPDMS) is an organization of persons with disabilities that is productive in producing patchwork mat ...
Edy Purnomo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Serological Benefit of SARS‐CoV‐2 Vaccination Relative to Infection in Children With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) are at risk of severe outcomes from SARS‐CoV‐2 (SCV2). In the post‐pandemic context, where most children have been infected with SCV2, there are limited data on whether vaccination remains beneficial in children with ALL.
Janna R. Shapiro   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

OATS - Open Source Assistive Technology - a way forward [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
The global Assistive Technology(AT)and Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) software field, while expanding all the time, remains small land very specialised.
Judge, Simon, Lysley, Andrew
core  

How a Diverse Research Ecosystem Has Generated New Rehabilitation Technologies: Review of NIDILRR’s Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Over 50 million United States citizens (1 in 6 people in the US) have a developmental, acquired, or degenerative disability. The average US citizen can expect to live 20% of his or her life with a disability. Rehabilitation technologies play a major role
A Arnoldussen   +295 more
core   +3 more sources

Supporting Survivor‐Centered Care Through Digital Health Integration

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Survivors of childhood cancer face barriers to receiving guideline‐based, long‐term follow‐up care. Two digital tools, Passport for Care (PFC) and Cancer SurvivorLink (SurvivorLink), address complementary gaps by enabling tailored survivorship care plan (SCP) generation, updating, storage, and sharing.
Jordan G. Marchak   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global availability of guidelines related to assistive technology: a scoping review

open access: yesFrontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences
BackgroundGiven the rising global demand for assistive technology, predicted to encompass 3.5 billion people by 2050, understanding the availability of guidelines governing its use and identifying potential gaps is paramount.ObjectiveThis scoping review ...
Wei Zhang, Johan Borg
doaj   +1 more source

Design for (every)one: co-creation as a bridge between universal design and rehabilitation engineering [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In this paper the authors describe a general framework for co-designing assistive devices in a horizontal user innovation network [1] by and for disabled users.
De Couvreur, Lieven, Goossens, Richard
core   +2 more sources

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