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Information for people with disabilities
- Author:
- FLEMING Stephen
- Journal article citation:
- ReHab NetWork, 24, Winter 1991, pp.12-14.
- Publisher:
- National Vocational Rehabilitation Association
Describes recent and future developments in using information technology to provide information directly to people with disabilities and their carers; includes list of participants in the National Disability Information Project.
An integrated system for care
- Author:
- BURKE Kath
- Journal article citation:
- Local Government Chronicle, 21.09.06, 2006, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Emap Business
Durham has streamlined care services with the introduction of a groundbreaking computer system. This article looks at the system which helps to facilitate seamless care for older people and people with physical disabilities by joining up 10 care teams over 4 localities.
Virtual networks for language therapy - experiences
- Authors:
- MAGNUSSON Magnus, CHRISTENSEN Marianne
- Journal article citation:
- New Technology in the Human Services, 12(1/2), 1999, pp.47-51.
- Publisher:
- Centre for Human Service Technology
Describes how groups of speech pathologists all over Sweden have worked together to build networks for professional co-operation. Today, about 20 systems are permanently installed and two of the schools for therapists in Sweden are involved giving courses the ISDN network. Patients as receivers of therapy on a more general level have also been involved. Participants in the projects have tried several different applications, including sharing standard programs over the network at the same time as they participate in a videoconference. The projects are based on research work on language training using videotelephony at the University of Karlstad.
Rehabilitation information system for people with disabilities
- Authors:
- SHOSHMIN Alexander, MARTYNOVA Natalie, RIABOKON Anna
- Journal article citation:
- New Technology in the Human Services, 12(1/2), 1999, pp.39-46.
- Publisher:
- Centre for Human Service Technology
Russian government policy is to organise services for disabled people, but these intentions are not enough. Implementation depends on organisational, financial and legal aspects. It is possible to change the present system of assistance now. For this purpose it is necessary to create a uniform information environment for and about disabled people. The authors present a clear and constructive program for practical realisation of an information system in one social sphere - rehabilitation of disabled people.
Moving with the times: information for disabled people on CD-ROM
- Author:
- VISSER Inez
- Journal article citation:
- Integrate News, 63, March 1997, pp.15-16.
Highlights a new information service which has been developed by Disability Scotland and discusses possibilities.
Net results
- Author:
- MATTHEWS Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 27.6.96, 1996, p.7.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Argues that the Internet is a vital resource for disabled people.
Using IT to make the system work for you
- Author:
- WILKINSON Ann
- Journal article citation:
- New Technology in the Human Services, 6(3), Winter 1992, pp.21-26.
- Publisher:
- Centre for Human Service Technology
A report on the British Computer Society Disabled Special Interest Group Conference.
Sanyong: a speech enabled communication system for the speech impaired and people with multiple disorders
- Authors:
- BHATTACHARYA Samit, SARKAR Sudeshna, BASU Anupam
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Technology in Human Services, 25(1/2), 2007, pp.177-180.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
A significant proportion of the Indian population has severe speech and motor impairments, and very few have access to assistive devices which are expensive, largely imported and geared to the needs of western consumers. This paper briefly describes Sanyong, a system developed in India that is based on a query-response interface using icons. Users can also communicate using pre-stored messages, which can be customised, or by using an on-screen keyboard (with word prediction facility) to compose messages. The Sanyong system is currently available in Bengali, Hindi and English versions and is used in a range of Indian institutions serving children with speech and motor impairments resulting from cerebral palsy. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
E-accessibility for all
- Author:
- PIGGOT Maureen
- Journal article citation:
- Scope, February 2002, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action
The information society presents challenges and opportunities to all citizens and to those who govern or provide goods and services to them. The author discusses the issues affecting access to information and communication technologies for people with disabilities.
Disablement in the informational age
- Author:
- SAPEY Bob
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(4), June 2000, pp.619-636.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper article employment data from the USA and UK on the process of informationalisation, in order to ascertain if it is having a particular impact on the construction of disablement. It finds that disabled people are more likely to be excluded from employment in the informational sector and that the current reforms of welfare may remove some of the safety net provision that have been part of the hegemony of care established under industrialisation. It concludes by suggesting that social exclusion, which removes the notion of deservingness, may replace disability as a social process in the twenty-first century.