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Assistive devices for sensory disability

Record number: 202
Last update: November 2006
Type of document: Lectures
Author: Andrich R
Editorial data: Dispense Corso "Metodi e didattiche dei sussidi per disabili" - Laurea specialistica in scienze motorie
Year of publication: 2006
Abstract:
(text automatically translated from Italian) Lesson that offers one panoramic of the main technological solutions for the daily independence, the mobility and the access to the information and the culture for the persons with limitations of the sight and the hearing. As far as the visual disabilities, the lesson classifies several the levels of visual limitation ***dall' the low vision to the blindness, illustrates Braille the important sections of the writing system, introduces the technological solutions that use the visual channel (arrange computer based and telephone optical, image enlarging video systems, instruments) and solutions that use alternative channels (tactile sticks, instruments, ***screen readers with peripheral vocal or in braille ***labile, electronic agendas). As far as the auditory disabilities, the lesson in the first place classifies several the levels of deafness illustrating as they can be compensated with acoustic apparatuses; it describes therefore several the alternative codes communicated to you usable and introduces the main technological solutions for accessibility of means of telecommunication and for the daily independence.
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