Technology for people with special needs

The most popular types of Assistive Technology devices

Divided into four assistive technology devices on a large scale, but its overlap with each other, each device in this group is doing is different for each child that needs a function to improve performance

 Cognitive devices include computers, games special education.  It is part of the education services suffer from learning disabilities, an area is booming and is constantly evolving. These devices and give students from different disabilities the opportunity to carry out their functions independently and school success

These range in level of services to suit all ages and provide these children to enter their community with high efficiency

 Enhanced communication devices: the devices vary between the plates contact simple and custom computers, and help children who can not speak or have speech disabilities to find their way to contact and communicate with their community

One of the methods used by such devices to show the children several options for graphics and deeds would like to tell her to his mother, for example, the device shall offer these options to choose from the child what he wants. There are devices speak on behalf of children. There are also devices to learn the children and provide them with academic knowledge and make them communicate with their community at the same time

 

 Mobility devices help people with special needs to move in their environment, whether through a car designed specifically for them or by wheelchair to the different technological development, as well as walkers and prosthetic limbs.

 Special services to control the surrounding environment for people with special needs: and falls below many of the devices that help people with special needs to carry out the functions did not occur to the mind set to do, such as light or television sets or answer the phone or bathing or eating

And takes care experts to develop technology to help improve the performance of technology related to the education of people with special needs, so we see a stunning advance in this area, in case no child can get to the regular keyboard There are several alternative options, including the keyboard sensitive operating characteristic touch or keyboard characterized by one key with a property survey to show all the characters, for example on the screen to select from through this the only key. There are many other options

The children who rely on others to read or write the most benefit from the understanding of computers, there are software programs that give speaking opportunity for children to complete homework independently without assistanc

As for the children who suffer from visual impairments, they have a choice of hardware and software to enable them to independently use the computer, including word processor-speaking reader screens and other techniques that are not counted.

There are special techniques with children who have difficulties with speech or learning difficulties and other disabilities that are suitable for children of different ages and degrees of disability

The future of assistive technology

When the child can accomplish a task on your computer completely alone, or the decision alone without the help of one or when utter a word and find it printed in front of him on the screen, and when they finish duty school for the first time faster than his classmates, and when he writes without spelling errors, appear on the eye signs of victory, and this is what makes the experts wish to further development

But the road is not easy and fraught with challenges, everyone must provide those techniques to help their children who are in need of training services to teach them, and that the kids remember that these technologies a tool and not a cure