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
inexpensive product and are easy to access. Smartphones also help keep kids from going off there daily schedule with the calendar app or a system of alarms. ( Vlasak and Ranaldo 2). With an alarm it can go off to remind you to do something. It could also make sure you don’t get distracted on 1 thing and tell you to move on. The calendar is like sticky notes but if you can’t write well you can talk into your phone so it adds the specific thing to the calendar. All of those things can help someone with ADD or ADHD so they don’t get distracted.
There are also things that can help people with bad motor skills like reading and writing.
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
teachers.
As time goes on assistive technology is becoming more successful and more people are utilizing assistive technology for their children. There are many small things that you might have never known could be used to help. Also there are complicated computer programs that helps people with motor skills. There is more Assistive technology available for children. All the technology is used to increase, maintain, or improve a child with disabilities. And everything listed does that. There are simple sticky notes and alarms, to computer programs. It depends on the person's disability and how they want to cope with it.