Assistive technology can help disabled students function better in most educational situations. This technology includes devices and equipment such as pencil grips, picture boards, alternative keyboards, touch screens, speech synthesizers, voice recognition systems, talking calculators, tape recorders and optical character recognition systems. Several web sites are included for additional infor...

Providing the technical means to prevent collapse or falls in patients with different types of pathology in motion and balance control is one of the traditional problems in rehabilitation engineering. A means of addressing the problem using assistive devices, including prostheses, is to restrict the mobility in certain anatomical or artificial joints by applying corsets, braces, brakes and lock...

BACKGROUND A primary means of social connection is visiting friends and families in their homes. Visitability is designing houses in a way that enables people to visit others' homes regardless of physical limitations or use of mobility assistive devices. OBJECTIVE The goals of this study were to develop a set of questions about visitability that could be used for surveillance and to assess th...

PURPOSE Power mobility is a critical assistive technology for many children with special needs. Our previous work suggests that certain infants younger than the age 1 year of age can participate in formal power mobility training. KEY POINTS This case report describes the feasibility of providing a power mobility training program with a young infant with spina bifida. Specifically, we longitud...

We examined how far, and at what cost, the housing stock could be modified to accommodate the assistive technology (AT) necessary to enable older people to remain in their own homes. A multidisciplinary team devised seven hypothetical user profiles for 10 case study areas, with five local authorities and five housing associations in England and Wales. Each profile was considered at two times, f...