Editorial: Intellectual Disability and Assistive Technology

Intellectual Disability and Assistive Technology: Opening the GATE Wider

The World Health Organization has launched a program to promote Global Cooperation on Assistive Technology (GATE). The objective of the GATE program is to improve access to high quality, affordable assistive technology for people with varying disabilities, diseases, and age-related conditions. As a first step, GATE has developed the assistive products list, a list of priority assistive products...

Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology

Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology

For Deaf people, access to the mobile telephone network in the United States is currently limited to text messaging, forcing communication in English as opposed to American Sign Language (ASL), the preferred language. Because ASL is a visual language, mobile video phones have the potential to give Deaf people access to real-time mobile communication in their preferred language. However, even to...

Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology

The goal of this study was (1) to determine whether and how nursing home residents with dementia respond to the interactive art installation in general and (2) to identify whether responses change when the content type and, therefore, the nature of the interaction with the artwork changes. The interactive art installation ‘VENSTER’ evokes responses in nursing home residents with dementia, illus...

Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology

Purpose. To review current measurement approaches to activity and participation among wheeled mobility users and suggest key factors researchers should consider as they continue to develop and refine both the concept of participation and its measurement. Methods. Literature review and expert opinion. Results. Four issues are reviewed: (1) Participation as a concept and as a key domain of the re...