Benefits Of Assistive Technology For Disabled People

Assistive technology is very helpful for disabled people. Assistive technology is any piece of equipment or product that is used to increase, maintain, or improve a child with disabilities. With more technology coming out, Assistive technology is improving. There are many types of assistive technology and is more available for disabled people. It could be as simple as a stress ball or sticky notes, to a fancy computer program that helps people read and write. Sometimes teachers have assistive technology for students in their classroom. As time goes on assistive technology is becoming more successful and more people are utilizing assistive technology for their children.
Some simple things that are assistive technology are post it notes or other things like a calendar to map out your day. Those make sure people that could get easily distracted, can stay on track. Something like sticky notes are great. They can be transferred any where. The post-it notes are visual reminders of what you have to finish and what you have finished. You can take the post it notes any where also. They keep kids with ADD on track. ( Vlasak and Ranaldo 2) They are an
They can be complicated sometimes but very helpful. E books are helpful if you can't read well. People read the book so you can listen to it. A kid named benjamin has to use a special program for academics and has to use a mp3 player to read (Hartmann 2). Ebooks help with dyslexia. Listening to something is easier for him. There is text to speech programs like e-books and there is speech to text applications. An example of this is dragon dictate. Dragon dictate is fairly simple to use. It records your voice, changes it to text and thens emails that text to you.(Vlasak and Ranaldo 3). That helps people that can’t write because they do not have good motor skills to write. It makes writing very simple to them and easier for