Digital technologies for people with various disabilities

Categories

• a physical handicap (fine and gross motor skills, etc.)
• a sensory dissability (hearing impaired, visually impaired, other sensory impaired person)
• a mentally disability (e.g. the Down syndrome)
• a speech disorder
• a specific learning disability (memory disorders, …)
• etc.

Visual impairment

• a blindness (an absolute loss of ability to see anything)
• a low vision (an ability to see remained on a some level)
• a daltonism (a disability to recognize colors)

http://www.vischeck.com/examples/

Various techniques and technologies for visually impaired persons

• audio techniques (sound records, narrators, sound books, etc.)
• tactile techniques (using Braille)
• special visual techniques (magnifier, etc.)
• combination of previously mentioned techniques

https://linterfop.csshviezdoslavov.sk/centrum-podpory-studentov-so-specifickymi-potrebami/

Hearing impairment

• a deafness (an absolute loss of hearing)
  • a pre-lingual deafness
  • a deafness after a person began to speak
• a partial hearing loss

http://www.starkey.com/hearing-loss-simulator

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Physically handicapped people

• too small or too big hands for keyboard
• a shakiness
• a paralysis
• a loss of limbs

http://www.hawking.org.uk/the-computer.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UErbwiJH1dI

Learning disabilities

• dyslexia, dysgrafia, dyscalculia

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