Choosing the Appropriate Assistive Device: A Card-Sorting Activity
Introduction This resource is a 30-40 minute instructional activity designed for small groups of six to eight medical trainees to apply basic information learned about assistive devices.
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Network analysis of assistive technology stakeholders in Malawi
Background Assistive technologies promote participation and quality of life for people with disabilities and other functional limitations. There is a global call to develop and implement policies to improve access to assistive technologies.
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Development of communication skills in an adolescent with autism, using alternative communication: a case report [PDF]
Alternative communication has been successfully used in interventions to develop communication skills in children with ASD. However, few studies in Brazil have approached nonverbal adolescents with autism.
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Device-Centric Monitoring for Mobile Device Management [PDF]
The ubiquity of computing devices has led to an increased need to ensure not only that the applications deployed on them are correct with respect to their specifications, but also that the devices are used in an appropriate manner, especially in situations where the device is provided by a party other than the actual user. Much work which has been done
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FedZKT: Zero-Shot Knowledge Transfer towards Resource-Constrained Federated Learning with Heterogeneous On-Device Models [PDF]
Federated learning enables multiple distributed devices to collaboratively learn a shared prediction model without centralizing their on-device data. Most of the current algorithms require comparable individual efforts for local training with the same structure and size of on-device models, which, however, impedes participation from resource ...
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Review of Wearable Devices and Data Collection Considerations for Connected Health
Wearable sensor technology has gradually extended its usability into a wide range of well-known applications. Wearable sensors can typically assess and quantify the wearer’s physiology and are commonly employed for human activity detection and quantified
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The use of cold porcelain orthoses to implement the act of playing of a child with motor deficit [PDF]
playing of the child with motor deficit. Methods: Applied research, quantitative and qualitative, in the Center for Integrated Healthcare (NAMI) in Fortaleza - CE, Brazil. The investigation occurred in the period from February to June 2008.
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Leveraging advances in diabetes technologies in primary care: a narrative review
Primary care providers (PCPs) play an important role in providing medical care for patients with type 2 diabetes. Advancements in diabetes technologies can assist PCPs in providing personalised care that addresses each patient’s individual needs ...
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Towards the development of the psychosocial impact of assistive devices scale for continence (C-PIADS) [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Current outcome measures for continence management devices do not adequately address psychosocial impact. The PIADS is an assessment tool that has been shown to reliably predict the adoption and use of assistive technology devices, but it is ...
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Technology in Rehabilitation: A Conceptual Approach [PDF]
The so called technologies of rehabilitationare part of the strategies that are designed to facilitatethe integration of a person with disabilities;their understanding demands basic conceptualapproaches on technology, engineering andRecibido: 21 de marzo
Margin Martínez Matheus+1 more
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