INTRODUCTION The aim of this review is to answer the following question: Does assistive technology contribute to social inclusion for people with intellectual disability? Previous research on assistive technology has focused on socioeconomic impacts such as education, employment and access to healthcare by people with intellectual disability. There is a need to consolidate evidence on the inter...

Assistive technology (AT) can help students with special needs their learning, and the importance of AT is on rise development new technologies diversification student body. However, it observed that pre-service teachers need to be better prepared for use in teaching, including awareness, creative innovative ways problem solving, pedagogical “low-tech” “mid-tech” “high-tech” AT. Based observati...

The Northern Territory Department of Education (DoE) provided assistive technology to support the teaching and learning of students with disability, and teacher training in integrating this technology in the classroom. A professional learning consultant was recruited in October 2012 with responsibility for researching and sourcing appropriate resources based on an evaluation of the needs of stu...

Assistive technology (AT) aims at compensating for motor, sensory or cognitive functional limitations of its users. Severely disabled users typically need to rely on family and caregivers to setup and manage the technology they need to use on a daily basis. We propose a conceptual blueprint for an assistive technology micro-groupware platform for users with severe motor limitations. Stakeholder...

This case study describes how an individual with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy was trained over a period of four weeks to use a commercial electroencephalography (EEG)-based brain-computer interface (BCI). The participant spent three sessions exploring the system, and seven sessions playing a game focused on EEG feedback training of left and right arm motor imagery and a customised, train...

This article provides an overview of the baby care assistive technology work at Through The Looking Glass (TLG). TLG is a non-profit organization in Berkeley, California which since 1991 has been designing, fabricating and researching the impact of babycare assistive technology for parents with physical disabilities. TLG provides direct services, information and referral to a diverse group of p...

“Access technology” (AT) is a term used to discuss assistive and adaptive technologies. While these terms are often used interchangeably, “access technology” is proposed insofar as the idea of “assistive” may be understood as redundant and condescending, since every technology can be perceived as assistive in one way or another (Ladner, 2010). The United States Assistive Technology Act (Technol...