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People with physical disabilities can use assistive technologies and mobility aids to enhance their independence and participation. These include wheelchairs, canes, hearing aids, and adaptive computer software. Modifications to buildings, such as ramps and automatic doors, can improve accessibility. Assistive devices also help with daily tasks, schoolwork, sports, and entertainment.

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People with physical disabilities can use assistive technologies and mobility aids to enhance their independence and participation. These include wheelchairs, canes, hearing aids, and adaptive computer software. Modifications to buildings, such as ramps and automatic doors, can improve accessibility. Assistive devices also help with daily tasks, schoolwork, sports, and entertainment.

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People with physical disabilities that

Assistive Computer software and hardware,


such as voice recognition programs,

Technology
affect movement can use mobility
aids, such as wheelchairs, scooters, screen readers, and screen
walkers, canes, crutches, prosthetic enlargement applications, help
devices, and orthotic devices, to people with mobility and sensory
enhance their mobility. People who
use wheelchairs for mobility can use
extendable reaching devices to
Examples impairments use computer
technology.

reach items on shelves


Hearing aids can
Lightweight, high-performance wheelchairs improve hearing Medication dispensers
Cognitive assistance,
have been designed for organized sports, such ability in persons with alarms can help
including computer or
as basketball, tennis, and racing. with hearing people remember to take
electrical assistive
problems. their medicine on time.
devices, can help people
function following brain
injury. Barriers in community buildings,
Lightweight, high- businesses, and workplaces can be
performance wheelchairs removed or modified to improve
In the classroom and
have been designed for accessibility. Such modifications
elsewhere, assistive
organized sports, such as include ramps, automatic door
devices, such as automatic
basketball, tennis, and openers, grab bars, and wider
page-turners, book doorways.
racing.
holders, and adapted
pencil grips, allow learners Closed captioning
with disabilities to allows people with
participate in educational hearing impairments to Adaptive switches
activities. enjoy movies and make it possible for a
Many types of devices help people with
television programs. child with limited
disabilities perform such tasks as cooking,
motor skills to play
dressing, and grooming. Kitchen implements with toys and games.
are available with large, cushioned grips to
help people with weakness or arthritis in their
hands.

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