Discourse on Intellectual Disability and Improved Access to Assistive Technologies in Malawi

Intellectual Disability and Assistive Technology: Opening the GATE Wider

The World Health Organization has launched a program to promote Global Cooperation on Assistive Technology (GATE). The objective of the GATE program is to improve access to high quality, affordable assistive technology for people with varying disabilities, diseases, and age-related conditions. As a first step, GATE has developed the assistive products list, a list of priority assistive products...

Access to healthcare for people with intellectual disability

Methods This was a longitudinal, retrospective, population registerbased, case-control study. The ID group included 7,936 people aged 55+ who in 2012 received services according to the Act concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments, and who were classified with ID from birth or early age. An equally large matched control group was selected from the Swedish Po...

Does assistive technology contribute to social inclusion for people with intellectual disability? A systematic review protocol

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...

Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology

Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology

For Deaf people, access to the mobile telephone network in the United States is currently limited to text messaging, forcing communication in English as opposed to American Sign Language (ASL), the preferred language. Because ASL is a visual language, mobile video phones have the potential to give Deaf people access to real-time mobile communication in their preferred language. However, even to...