Assistive
Technology and
Mental Health
BDF Share

Technology and the relationship with Mental
health

Mental Health and
disability
• Mental health can be the primary or
secondary disability for a person
• Mental Health needs can be triggered
by a variety of issues including
financial issues
• Mental Health needs can be directly or
indirectly related to another disability

Technology and Flexibility
• Working within an environment where the
triggers for anxiety are reduced
• Agoraphobia
• Panic Attacks
• Technology can assist us to build
confidence
• Technology can augment and enhance
human support

Evernote and Note
taking
• Using storage and retrieval tools can
be helpful
• Reduces anxiety over maintaining
records
• Reduces physical clutter and sense of
loss of control over the physical
workspace

Wayfinding and Locations
• Reduces anxiety around
changes of location
• Can be used to share
location with colleagues or
sources of support

Technology and Self
Confidence
• Iterative
• Planning projects and tasks
• Checking documents
• Spelling
• Grammar
• Reduces anxiety over errors

ClaroRead
• Additional proofing tools
• Allows anxiety over errors to be
further checked
• Allows materials to be
represented in a secondary
format seamlessly

XMind
• Mindmapping allows visual organisation of thoughts
• Planning
• Organising
• Sequencing
• Useful during periods of stress when maintaining a
structure of work is a challenge

Technology and Isolation
• From Bullying to Support
• Links to Self Help
• Social Communication in the workplace
• Coping with change
• New technologies can trigger alarms and
alerts as needed

Technology – a Scaffold
• Technology can create a framework of
support around a persons mental health
needs.