ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY

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 Assistive technology (AT) is a term for assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices for people with disabilities and the elderly. Disabled people often have difficulty performing activities of daily living (ADLs) independently, or even with assistance. ADLs are self-care activities that include toileting, mobility (ambulation), eating, bathing, dressing, grooming, and personal device care. Assistive technology can ameliorate the effects of disabilities that limit the ability to perform ADLs. Assistive technology promotes greater independence by enabling people to perform tasks they were formerly unable to accomplish, or had great difficulty accomplishing, by providing enhancements to, or changing methods of interacting with, the technology needed to accomplish such tasks. For example, wheelchairs provide independent mobility for those who cannot walk, while assistive eating devices can enable people who cannot feed themselves to do so. Due to assistive technology, disabled people have an opportunity of a more positive and easygoing lifestyle, with an increase in "social participation", "security and control", and a greater chance to "reduce institutional costs without significantly increasing household expenses." In schools, assistive technology can be critical in allowing students with disabilities to access the general education curriculum. Students who experience challenges writing or keyboarding, for example, can use voice recognition software instead. Assistive technologies assist people who are recovering from strokes and people who have sustained injuries that affect their daily tasks.

 Assistive technology products like Audible books, sign language decoder, Tactile books for Visually impaired, Leg support for walking, spine support system etc. These kind of product information is available with us and the products are also sold.

Although assistive technologies for the blind, such as screen readers or braille displays, have been around for some time, AI has recently led to significant improvements. With more powerful speech synthesis algorithms and smartphones and dedicated assistive devices, the use of text-to-speech (TTS) technology has become much more flexible, enabling mobile ad-hoc use, such as listening to an e-book hands-free. This is also closely related to advances in image processing, especially in optical character recognition (OCR), to make text accessible for speech synthesis. A good example of this is Google Lens, which can, for example, recognize and process text in a camera image of a traffic sign. The same logic applies to speech-to-text (STT) apps, which enable mobile and hassle-free text communication without the need for a keyboard or special software, as was the case in the past.

Persons with disabilities should be included in the mainstream of Education and workforce. Assistive Technologies are being developed to support the disabled people to cope up with their disabilities and do their daily work in an easy way. Different types of disabilities like low vision, less hearing power, restricted limb movement etc. can be considered and solution can be given to support these people with Technology and Guidance. The market size is 100000 people to start with. Value chain will include NGOs, institutions, schools, colleges. The qualitative trends are that prototypes are being developed by students but actual manufacturing of products is less. The prototype testing and product launch should happen soon. Funds/grants should be given soon to implement it.

1)  SMART CANE FOR BLIND PEOPLE: Blind people have to face many challenges in their life, one of them is finding their way on the streets. On the streets, there are so many vehicles and obstacles that may block their way and also may injure them. So keeping this in mind a sound alarm is given after detecting obstacles.

2) SMART CHAIR: Disabled people who sit on wheel chairs have to communicate and work. The wheel chair can be provided with sound system and other facilities to do their work effectively sitting on a chair. Technology is used to sound a Buzzer to give alerts.

3) LEARNING PLATFORM: People with hearing problem and speech problem can use Speech to Text Conversion for studying and working. Many features like easy reading, writing and sending emails can be integrated into one for making learning and working easy.

4) APPS: Educational information can be circulated through apps to disabled students. The Apps will have information about different courses and curriculum can also be designed on apps.

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