How ICT helps people with disabilities.

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How ICT helps people with disabilities

Introduction

        In this Report I will write about how ICT has evolved for people with disabilities, and what the disabled people use instead of the normal devices and software.

        First off I will list the disabilities that people may have. Examples of types of disabilities are:

  • Sensory disability.
  • Physical disability.
  • Learning difficulties.
  • Language.

I will choose to look at the things that help people with learning disabilities. The learning disability is a vast category out of the four, as it applies for all the disabilities as it slows down the learning process.

Learning Disabilities

        First off as learning disabilities is such a big category I will bullet point the learning disabilities that are know to us.

  1. Speech Recognition
  2. Blind & Visually Impaired
  3. Cognitive Disabilities
  4. Deaf and Hard of Hearing
  5. Electronics aids to daily living
  6. Mouse Alternatives
  7. Keyboard Alternatives
  8. Switch Access
  9. Text-to-speech
  10. Augmentative Communication

Not all of these categories are just learning disabilities some are sensory and others are physical, but say a person is deaf this is a sensory disabilities

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Speech Recognition

        There are two uses for speech recognition these are Dictation and Computer control. Speech recognition is one of the desired assistive technology systems. People believe speech recognition is a natural and easy method of accessing the computer.

A dyslexic person who has problems with writing English would use the speech recognition to make sure their English is correct. A person planning to use speech recognition must be aware he is required to go through an training session. This is a one-time reading when the user must read aloud an excerpt of text that is displayed ...

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