Assistive Technology For Students With Disabilities 2018 [cited 2018].
The five studies of translation and cross-cultural adaptation evaluated after reading the full texts were the following: Quebec User Evaluation of Satisfaction with
Assistive Technology (QUEST 2.0), translated and adapted from English into Brazilian Portuguese [31]; Psychosocial Impact of Assistive Devices Scale (PIADS), from English into Canadian French [32]; Quebec User Evaluation of Satisfaction with
Assistive Technology 1.0 (QUEST1.0), from English into Danish [33]; Family Impact of
Assistive Technology Scale, from English into Turkish [34]; and Quebec User Evaluation of Satisfaction with
Assistive Technology (QUEST 2.0), from English into Chinese (Mandarin) and adapted to Taiwanese [35], as demonstrated in Table 1.
I joined Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, which is well known for its leading role in electronic
assistive technology, to pursue this further.
The inaugural edition of the expo last year saw world's latest
assistive technology products including aids for leisure and sports for the disabled such as running prostheses for recreational athletes, leg prosthesis systems that virtually make replication of physiological human gait possible to pre-hospital medical equipment, folding electric mobility scooters, specially designed cars allowing driving directly from the wheelchair, high-definition silicone, orthotic, mobility devices, power wheelchairs, innovative solutions for sound sensory stimulation, voice synthesizers, Braille readers, wireless monitoring devices, special tools and software enhancing language and learning and much more.
On the plus side, hardware and software increasingly include
assistive technology features as standard items.
The number of
assistive technology devices that have the potential to empower individuals with disabilities has increased in recent years.
They concluded that practitioners who work in the field of
assistive technology have a role in advocacy and assisting wheelchair users to have full social participation in all community places.
WHCATR, which has opened in Al Mawaleh, is the only centre of its kind as it integrates
assistive technology with educational programmes that are provided to people, with all kinds of invisible and visible disabilities, such as intellectual disabilities, visual, hearing and mobility impairment and autism.
From last many years, the persons with disabilities are using
assistive technology and its use is rapidly increasing in educational, vocational and frivolous activities.
Kirklees Council has a wide range of
assistive technology devices, including intruders' alarms, epilepsy sensors, intelligent care monitors, carephones and more.
European Conference of the Association for the Advancement of
Assistive Technology in Europe (12th: 2013: Algarve, Portugal) Edited by Pedro Encarnacao, Luis Azevedo, Gert Jan Gelderblom, Alan Newell, and Niels-Erik Mathiassen
A new video presentation can help employees and employers learn about the latest in
assistive technology for the workplace.