This week we have had Dave from Kimi Ora school (Wellington) and another guy from STAR education spend some time with us talking about assistive technology. The content was amazing, seeing what people can do with a little bit of extra help!
A reading (Cook and Hussey) defines assistive technology to be a broad range of devices, services, strategies and practices that are conceived and applied to ameliorate the problems faced by people with disabilities.
One of the devices that I played with was a "Big keys keyboard" which is a standard size keyboard with 60 enlarged keys (25mm) for those with visual poor fine motor skills, or a hand tremor. It costs a lot at $295, but can be beneficial for someone to use to be able to type. It is available in different colours, and you can choose the ABC key option or QWERT option depending on what suits.
A piece of technology that I have been interested in lately is Wii (video game console). There is a lot of news in the media regarding the uses in therapy and many people are seeing benefits.
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