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Assistive Technology (AT) is a generic term that includes assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices and the process used in selecting, locating, and using them. AT promotes greater independence for people with disabilities by enabling them to perform tasks that they were formerly unable to accomplish, or had great difficulty accomplishing, by providing enhancements to or changed methods of interacting with the technology needed to accomplish such tasks. According to disability advocate ...
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Resources
- Assistive Technology (National Women's Health Information Center)
- Emergency Evacuation Preparedness: Taking Responsibility for Your Safety; A Guide for People with Disabilities and Other Activity Limitations (Center for Disability Issues and the Health Professions at Western University of Health Sciences)
- Hearing Aids (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Information Clearinghouse, NIDCD, NIH, HHS)
- Informed Consumer's Guide to Funding Assistive Technology (ABLEDATA, NIDDR, ED)
- Work-site Accommodation Ideas for Office Workers who Use Wheelchairs (Job Accommodation Network)

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