Assistive technology is one of the key issues in special education today. It helps students with learning debilities, all the way to severe traumatic brain injury. All of the Assistive technology has ...

The event assists people with vision loss and helps them make better use of electronic devices and digital media. The overall aim is to make their lives easier. Chicopee resident Robert R. Baran ...

Assistive technology—from visual timers to help students with learning differences keep track of their schedules to digital captioning software for those with hearing difficulties—can improve outcomes ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University researchers are developing software in a “haptic device” that could give people with visual impairments the ability to identify scientific images on a computer ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write on the intersection of disability and the U.S. workforce. Adding to that focus is the range of programs and incentives ...

Disability activists have sometimes claimed their disability has actually increased their well-being. Some even say they would reject a cure to keep these gains. Yet, these same activists often ...

Equipment to assist the blind and visually impaired has transcended beyond the white cane for navigation or the Perkins Brailler, a typewriter-like device for printing Braille on hard copy sheets of ...

In the Assistive Technology Lab (ATL), students can use a wide variety of assistive technologies to meet their information access and computing needs. These include stand-alone equipment, adaptive ...