{"id":5300,"date":"2016-10-17T09:50:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T15:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/?p=5300"},"modified":"2016-10-17T10:07:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T16:07:02","slug":"top-ten-assistive-technology-adaptations-for-therapists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/general\/top-ten-assistive-technology-adaptations-for-therapists\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Ten Assistive Technology Adaptations for Therapists"},"content":{"rendered":"

By: Teresa Westerbur, OTR\/L<\/p>\n

Therapists are often active participants in assistive technology evaluations to determine the appropriate computer access for individuals with disabilities.\u00a0 There are many adaptations available but I have listed my top 10 below:<\/p>\n

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  1. Keyboard adaptations or accessibility options in Windows of IOS systems. Keyguards, Braille keys, key size and contrast overlays help for vision.<\/li>\n
  2. Alternate keyboards like Big Keys, BAT One handed keyboard, and mini keyboards.<\/li>\n
  3. Software operated with mouse clicks and alternative devices. Onscreen keyboards like SofType, EZKeys, and Windows onscreen are some good examples.<\/li>\n
  4. Mouse alternatives like separate mouse pad, mini-joysticks, trackballs, large roller mouse, touch screen, touch computers, dwell software like Magic Cursor or Dragger.<\/li>\n
  5. Speech input like Dragon or Windows speech recognition work well for those with the ability to speak.<\/li>\n
  6. Vision changes to the screen like screen magnifiers through accessibility or commercially like Zoomtext and Jaws.<\/li>\n
  7. Head operated mouse like Tracker Pro, HeadMouse, LaZee Mouse, and SmartNav are all examples of this method.<\/li>\n
  8. Switch access through use of Morse Code, single or dual switches using sip and puff, grasp switch, proximity switches, string switch, and \u00a0chin switch to name a few.<\/li>\n
  9. Eye tracking devices that allow user to dwell or click on chosen areas of computer screen to type or speak using synthesized speech like MyTobiiDynavox, PRC, Forbes, and Words+ devices to name a few.<\/li>\n
  10. Integrated powered mobility controls that allow individual to control their wheelchair and operate their computer, environmental controls and\/or speech generated device through joystick, sip and puff or adapted switches.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    To learn more about Teresa and her course on adaptive strategies using assistive technology click here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    By: Teresa Westerbur, OTR\/L Therapists are often active participants in assistive technology evaluations to determine the appropriate computer access for individuals with disabilities.\u00a0 There are many adaptations available but I have listed my top 10 below: Keyboard adaptations or accessibility options in Windows of IOS systems. Keyguards, Braille keys, key size and contrast overlays help […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5302,"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5300\/revisions\/5302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}