Adaptive technology refers to equipment or products designed to help people with physical disabilities perform tasks that might otherwise be difficult or impossible. This can include both low-tech and high-tech devices to aid those with visual, hearing, mobility, learning and other impairments. Examples provided include speech output software for the blind, enlarged screens and keyboards for low vision users, and alternative input devices for those with limited mobility. The goal of adaptive technology is to increase independence for people with disabilities.

1. ADAPTIVE TECHNOLOGY
By Yuri Collins

2. ADAPTIVE TECHNOLOGY..!
WHAT DOES IT MEANS?
Adaptive technology is the name of products that
help people who cannot use regular version of
products, primarily people with physical disabilities
such as limited vision, hearing, and mobility.

3. ADAPTIVE TECHNOLOGY
Can be in the form of :
 Low tech or
 High tech equipment
And Is anything give to a person to help
increase their independence

4. EXAMPLES

5. ADAPTIVE TECH ON EDUCATION
Blind Low vision
 Locator dots on the Large-print key labels
keyboard for and home row indicators
commonly used keys Large monitors and
 Speech output. anti-glare screens.
 Refreshable Braille Screen enlarger
displays software.
 Braille embossers Color and contrast
adjustments.
Speech output systems.

6. MOBILITY AND ORTHOPEDIC
IMPAIRMENTS
 Accessible on/off switches.
 Flexible positioning.
 Software utilities that consolidate multiple or
sequential keystrokes.
 Mouth sticks, head sticks, or other pointing devices.
 Keyguards.
 Modified keyboards (e.g., expanded, mini, or one-
handed).
 Trackballs or other input devices provide an
alternative to a mouse.
 Keyboard emulation with specialized switches that
allow the use of scanning or Morse code input.
 Speech input.
 Word prediction software.

7. LEARNING DISABILITIES
 Word processors with  Enlarged screen displays.
grammar and spell
checkers.
 Alternative color contrasts.
 Word processors with
outlining and highlighting
capabilities.  Speech output.
 Word prediction software.
 Phonetic Spelling software  Reading systems
which can render phonetic incorporating OCR and
spelling into correctly speech output.
spelled words.
 Speech recognition
 Concept mapping software

8. SPEECH AND HEARING IMPAIRMENTS
Alternatives to audio output can be provided
Communication devices can act as a substitute for
voices and provide a compensatory tool for students
who cannot communicate verbally.

9.  Psychiatric and Mental Health Impairments
 Health Impairments

10. The Archimedes Project
"Give me a lever long enough and
a place to stand, and I will move
the world."
-Archimedes, 230 BC
"Technology gives individuals the
power to move their world."
-The Archimedes Project, 2002 AD

11. RESOURCES
 Adaptive technology. University of Washington - washington.edu.
Retrieved from
http://www.washington.edu/doit/Faculty/Strategies/Academic/Adaptive
 Center. Adaptive and assistive technology @ rehabtool.com. Adaptive and
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http://www.rehabtool.com
 2003). The archimedes project. The Archimedes Project. Retrieved from
http://archimedes.stanford.edu/
 Pulsifer, L. Assistive and adaptive technology devices. eHow | How to
Videos, Articles & More - Discover the expert in you. | eHow.com.
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adaptive-technology-devices.html
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