2018年10月18日 · Devices and features of devices to help perform tasks such as cooking, dressing, and grooming; specialized handles and grips, devices that extend reach, and lights on telephones and doorbells are a few examples. 4; For more information about types of assistive devices, check out the following resources:

2024年1月2日 · Assistive technology is an umbrella term for assistive products and their related systems and services. Assistive products help maintain or improve an individual’s functioning related to cognition, communication, hearing, mobility, self-care and vision, thus enabling their health, well-being, inclusion and participation.

2024年12月19日 · Examples of assistive products include hearing aids, wheelchairs, spectacles, prostheses and devices that support memory, among many others. While supporting independence and well-being, these products can also help to prevent or reduce the effects of secondary health conditions, such as lower limb amputation in people with diabetes.

2018年10月24日 · Rehabilitative and assistive technology refers to tools, equipment, or products that can help people with disabilities successfully complete activities at school, home, work, and in the community. Disabilities are disorders, diseases, health conditions, or injuries that affect a person’s physical, intellectual, or mental well-being and functioning. Rehabilitative and …

2018年9月24日 · The assistive devices are individually configured to help each person with his or her own unique disability. 6. For more information about conditions that may benefit from assistive technology, visit the following resources: MedlinePlus, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides information about assistive devices for various ...

2018年9月24日 · Rehabilitative technology can help restore or improve function in people who have developed a disability due to disease, injury, or aging. Appropriate assistive technology often helps people with disabilities compensate, at least in part, for a limitation. For example, assistive technology enables students with disabilities to compensate for certain impairments. This …

2016年2月1日 · The first WHO Priority Assistive Products List was launched in May 2016. The List includes hearing aids, wheelchairs, communication aids, spectacles, artificial limbs, pill organizers, memory aids and other essential items for many older people and people with disabilities to be able to live a healthy, productive and dignified life.

2012年6月14日 · Assistive Devices. More and more often, interventions for children with Down syndrome involve assistive devices—any type of material, equipment, tool, or technology that enhances learning or makes tasks easier to complete.

2022年12月8日 · The Global Report on assistive technology: summary provides an overview of the WHO and UNICEF global report on assistive technology, which was developed in response to the 2018 World Health Assembly Resolution on Assistive Technology and launched in May 2022. The Summary will be useful for a broad range of stakeholders and is intended to facilitate the …

To improve access to assistive technology for everyone, everywhere, on 28 July 2020, WHO and UNICEF signed a Joint Action Plan on Assistive Technology and included provision of assistive products under the Strategic Collaboration Framework between The World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund to bring a catalytic impact ...