A Critical Analysis and Review of Assistive Technology

2021 ◽  
pp. 263-281
Author(s):  
Arun Kumar Shanmugam ◽  
Ramalatha Marimuthu
Keyword(s):  
Assistive Technology ◽  
Critical Analysis

scholarly journals The Duplicity of Choice and Empowerment: Disability Rights Diluted in Australia’s Policies on Assistive Technology

Societies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Emily J Steel
Keyword(s):  
Assistive Technology ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Disability Insurance ◽  
Disability Services ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Insurance Scheme ◽  
Interpretive Policy Analysis ◽  
Economic Discourse ◽  
To Come ◽  
Professional Power

The combination of choice as a contested concept and its increasing adoption as a policy principle necessitates a critical analysis of its interpretation within Australia’s reforms to disability services. While choice may appear to be an abstract and flexible principle in policy, its operationalization in practice tends to come with conditions. This paper investigates the interpretation of choice in the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), via an interpretive policy analysis of assistive technology (AT) provision. Analysis of policy artefacts reveals a diminishing influence of disability rights in favor of an economic discourse, and contradictory assumptions about choice in the implementation of legislation. The language of choice and empowerment masks the relegation of the presumption of capacity to instead perpetuate professional power in determining access to resources by people with disability.

scholarly journals “A” for Attitude—Attitudes towards Dyslexia in Higher Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. p52
Author(s):  
Jonathan P. Beckett ◽  
Judith A. Darnell
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Assistive Technology ◽  
Study Skills ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Academic Language ◽  
Inclusion Criteria ◽  
Critical Appraisal Skills ◽  
Discriminatory Practice

This paper makes the case for the importance of an empathetic approach to understanding dyslexia, in educational establishments, especially in Higher Education. An awareness of the implications that having dyslexia and how this affects both study skills (concentration, organisation, revision and so forth) and presentation skills (completion of assignments within academic language and structures and without grammar, punctation and spelling errors) is accentuated in this article.This research employs meta-ethnography, the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) and a grounded theory overlay to thematic critical analysis. In so doing, UK literature of both quantitative and qualitative format was examined through specifying inclusion criteria and using a filtering approach.The justification for this work is to challenge any institutional or individual indirect discriminatory practice towards students with dyslexia.Conclusions indicate the need for enhanced institutional understanding of dyslexia and associated provision for individual dyslexic learners within Higher Education in its entirety. For example, access to digitalised resources, individual tutorials, assistive technology and adjusted expectations in marking criteria (as not to penalise for issues concomitant with dyslexia).

Training-the-Trainer on Assistive Technology for Cognition (ATC): Current Practices

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie Ehlhardt Powell ◽  
Tracey Wallace ◽  
Michelle ranae Wild
Keyword(s):  
Brain Injury ◽  
Assistive Technology ◽  
Acquired Brain Injury ◽  
Online Training ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Train The Trainer ◽  
Rehabilitation Professionals ◽  
Remote Locations ◽  
Training Package ◽  
And Training

Research shows that if clinicians are to deliver effective, evidence-based assistive technology for cognition (ATC) services to clients with acquired brain injury (ABI), they first need opportunities to gain knowledge and experience with ATC assessment and training practices (O'Neil-Pirozzi, Kendrick, Goldstein, & Glenn, 2004). This article describes three examples of train the trainer materials and programs to address this need: (a) a toolkit for trainers to learn more about assessing and training ATC; (b) a comprehensive, trans-disciplinary program for training staff to provide ATC services in a metropolitan area; and (c) an overview of an on-site/online training package for rehabilitation professionals working with individuals with ABI in remote locations.

Assistive Technology for Cognition: Perspectives on Funding

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-89
Author(s):  
Kathy de Domingo
Keyword(s):  
Assistive Technology ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Personal Digital Assistants ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
Prosthetic Devices ◽  
Funding Sources ◽  
Ankle Foot Orthoses ◽  
Language Pathology ◽  
Communication Challenges

Physical and occupational therapists commonly provide services that incorporate prosthetic and orthotic devices such as crutches, canes, reachers, and ankle–foot orthoses to support mobility and activities of daily living (ADLs). Likewise, speech-language pathologists provide services incorporating prosthetic devices to support communication such as an electrolarynx, microcomputers, and mobile devices and apps with voice output capability. Assistive technology for cognition (ATC) includes the use of personal digital assistants (PDAs), tablets, and smart phones — cognitive prostheses — to compensate for cognitive challenges following acquired brain injury (ABI). Whereas funding sources for devices and services that support/compensate for mobility, ADLs, and communication challenges are generally well established, funding for ATC devices and services is relatively new to the field of speech-language pathology. This article explores the funding aspect of ATC devices and services.

379: A Critical Analysis of the Interpretation of Biochemical Recurrence in Surgically Treated Patients using the Revised ASTRO Criterion–"NADIR +2"

2007 ◽  
Vol 177 (4S) ◽  
pp. 126-126
Author(s):  
Matthew E. Nielsen ◽  
Danil V. Makarov ◽  
Elizabeth B. Humphreys ◽  
Leslie A. Mangold ◽  
Alan W. Partin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Biochemical Recurrence ◽  
Critical Analysis

Aging and assistive technology use

1997 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 63-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
William C. Mann
Keyword(s):  
Assistive Technology ◽  
Technology Use
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