Assistive computer technology is a way to assist others, with easy to use technologies that enable those who need assistance to make their life easier.  There are many techniques that enable ease of use, like speech recognition, on-screen keyboards, other ways of placing information into the computer. There are learning technologies, which include different types of tutorials, like video lessons, listening to lessons, etc…

Assistive computer technology also includes virtual reality, special patents that make it easy to do things, like gadgets that are small and easy to use, for monitoring heart problems, or assisting medical needs and helping students who have difficulties to study what they need to learn. There are assistive technologies for helping children, autism, assistive technologies for legislation and more…

Just to specify some of those technologies, which will enable you to know they are there, and if you or your friends might


need them, it’s good to know there are such options. If it can assist us, why not use them and easy the fight we need to do in order to achieve what we find difficult to do.

There is a well known assistive technology innovation in Israel, called “Yad Sarah” which has many assistive technologies for the needy. They have breast pumps for the maternity mom, that needs to pump breast milk for her child. They have different devices for different needs, you can read more information on their website.

Assistive technologies are mostly designated for those with handicaps, which the advancements in technologies enable many gadgets that ease those with handicaps to perform regularly, and perform regular day to day activities.

It is amazing how to advance technologies can improve our lives, some say technologies decay our life, where we stay more at home, we do not go out for sportive activities, keep in shape, as we use our car to go to work, watch TV all day, play computers, but these assistive technologies enable those who can’t really do all of those regular activities to conduct them with the aid of technological tools. So there is some good in technological innovations 🙂

A boy with a disability.