Estimates of the global workforce required for providing assistive technology: a modeling study [PDF]
Frontiers in Rehabilitation SciencesIntroductionDespite being a fundamental human right, access to assistive products varies between 3% and 90% across countries. Ensuring adequate and trained human resources is a prerequisite for improving access to assistive products. To support workforce
Johanna Rosberg Petersson +5 more
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Global availability of guidelines related to assistive technology: a scoping review [PDF]
Frontiers in Rehabilitation SciencesBackgroundGiven 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
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The Kenyan assistive technology ecosystem: a network analysis [PDF]
Global Health ActionBackground Assistive technology is central to the realization of the rights of persons with disabilities. However, there remains limited access to assistive technology throughout much of the world, with particularly poor access in lower- and middle ...
Emma M. Smith +5 more
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Building trust in long-term care settings using assistive technology: a systematic review [PDF]
Frontiers in Rehabilitation SciencesBackgroundThis review investigates the dynamics of trust between caregivers and care receivers in long-term care settings, where the implementation of assistive technology also becomes chronically crucial.
Kangjie Zheng +3 more
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Does assistive technology contribute to safety among home-dwelling older adults? [PDF]
BMC Health Services ResearchBackground Assistive technology carries the promise of alleviating public expenditure on long-term care, while at the same time enabling older adults to live more safely at home for as long as possible. Home-dwelling older people receiving reablement and
Mariya Bikova +4 more
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JUMLA-QSL-22: A Novel Qatari Sign Language Continuous Dataset
IEEE Access, 2023 This paper proposes the first large-scale and annotated Qatari sign language dataset for continuous sign language processing. This dataset focuses on phrases and sentences commonly used in healthcare settings and contains 6300 records of 900 sentences ...
Oussama El Ghoul +2 more
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Improve Access to Assistive Technologies and Promote Universal Health Coverage
Xiehe Yixue Zazhi, 2022 Assistive technology is a subset of health technology. The resolution on improving access to assistive technology adopted by the 71st World Health Assembly illustrates that it is extremely important to integrate assistive technologies into healthcare ...
DONG Liquan +3 more
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Self-devised assistive techniques by university students with learning disabilities
African Journal of Disability, 2023 Background: Access to assistive technology for disabilities is limited in low-resource settings. Therefore, existing research focuses on accessibility challenges.
Ndakaitei Manase
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EXPERIENCES OF EXPERTS IN USING ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY
Research in Education and Rehabilitation, 2022 Assistive technology is a collective term that refers to assistive devices and services for people withdisabilities. The use of assistive technology in working with people with disabilities facilitates their learning and ...
Jurišić Lidija +2 more
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Advancements in Arabic Text-to-Speech Systems: A 22-Year Literature Review
IEEE Access, 2023 Although there are several speech synthesis models available for different languages tailored to specific domain requirements and applications, there is currently no readily available information on the latest trends in Arabic language speech synthesis ...
Khansa Chemnad, Achraf Othman
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