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Frontiers in Education, 2020 Background: People with deafblindness experience stigmatization, exclusion, and isolation. Due to complex communication challenges, feelings of isolation and exclusion can increase. However, assistive technology can change these negative outcomes.
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Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2023 Sign language (SL) avatar systems aid communication between the hearing and deaf communities. Despite technological progress, there is a lack of a standardized avatar development framework.
Maryam Aziz, Achraf Othman
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The limitations of speech control: perceptions of provision of speech-driven environmental controls [PDF]
, 2011 This study set out to collect data from assistive technology professionals about their provision of speech-driven environmental control systems. This study is part of a larger study looking at developing a new speech-driven environmental control ...
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South African Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2020 Introduction: Participation in education is the right of every child, regardless of disability. An Assistive Technology and Inclusion Programme, implemented at a special school, has provided learners with motor impairments with an alternative to typical
Marieta Visser +7 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 Assistive technology for the differently abled and older adults has made remarkable achievements in providing rehabilitative, adaptive, and assistive devices.
P. Muthu +5 more
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Raising awareness of assistive technology in older adults through a community-based, Cooperative Extension program [PDF]
, 2012 The Fashion an Easier Lifestyle with Assistive Technology (FELAT) curriculum was developed as a needs-based, community educational program provided through a state Cooperative Extension Service. The overall goal for participants was to raise awareness of
Markham, Melinda S., Sellers, Debra M.
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The Acceptance of Culturally Adapted Signing Avatars Among Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Individuals
IEEE AccessDeaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) individuals often encounter significant challenges in communication and accessing digital content, with Sign Language as their primary mode of communication.
Achraf Othman +4 more
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Assistive technology as cognitive support in everyday life for persons with dementia or stroke [PDF]
, 2012 The overall aim of this thesis was to expand the knowledge base for a better understanding of how persons diagnosed with dementia or stroke become users of assistive technology for cognitive support in everyday life.
Lindqvist, Eva
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Applied Sciences, 2022 Flatfoot causes abnormal biomechanics in the lower extremity, resulting in discomfort and excessive burden on lower extremity muscles during functional tasks, and it potentially leads to associated syndromes in the lower extremity.
Chu-Yuan Chiang +4 more
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Q & A on Customized Employment: Assistive Technology as a Workplace Support [PDF]
, 2005 [Excerpt] Despite the promise of assistive technology, many people with significant physical disabilities remain in facility-based employment programs. Underutilization of AT to facilitate competitive employment is related to a number of critical issues.
Office of Disability Employment Policy
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