Gene editing and disabled people: a response to Felicity Boardman

Causing disabled people to exist and causing people to be disabled.

Attempts to determine or to select what kind of person or people to bring into existence are controversial. This is particularly true of “negative selection” or “selecting against” a certain type of person—that is, the attempt to prevent a person of a certain type, or people of that type, from existing. Virtually everyone agrees that some instances of negative selection are objectionable—for ex...

Assisted suicide and disabled people.

A Speech Orientation Animation System to Disabled People

Audio disabled children or adults under oral rehabilitating therapy learn how to treat speech disorders or even how utter sounds imitating mouth elements position and movement. This technique has been proved beneficial to help people since specialized instructional program adopt it. The main proposal of this work is the development of an affordable tool to aid in this therapy.

Learning Applications for Disabled People

This chapter presents e-learning practices and applications, which target people with visual and hearing disabilities. The first part discusses an elearning application, which targets visually impaired people while the second part presents an e-learning application for the teaching of the English language to deaf and hearing impaired people. The final part presents a study about the relationshi...

Autonomous Wheelchair for Disabled People

This paper describes the RobChair assistive navigation system. RobChair project was conceived with the aim to assist disabled people in the difficult task of manoeuvring a powered wheelchair. This paper describes the overall hardware and software architecture including the communication system; a friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI) which also works as a simulator; and introduces a voice Hum...