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  1. Assistive technology - World Health Organization (WHO)

    Jan 2, 2024 · WHO fact sheet on assistive technology. Assistive technology enables people to live healthy, productive, independent, and dignified lives, and to participate in education, the labour …

  2. Rehabilitative and Assistive Technology - NICHD

    Rehabilitative and assistive technology refers to tools, equipment, or products that can help people with disabilities successfully complete activities at school, home, work, and in the community. Disabilities …

  3. Assistive technology - World Health Organization (WHO)

    Jun 23, 2025 · Assistive technology enables and promotes inclusion and participation, especially of persons with disability, aging populations, and people with non-communicable diseases. The primary …

  4. Assistive technology - World Health Organization (WHO)

    Assistive technology is the application of organized knowledge and skills related to assistive products, including systems and services. Assistive products maintain and improve individual functioning, they …

  5. First ever global guide for assistive technology to improve the life of ...

    Mar 2, 2021 · Appropriate assistive technology can have a direct impact on the well-being of children and adults of all ages by supporting their functionality and inclusion into society, thereby increasing …

  6. Improving access to Assistive Technology

    Assistive technology enables and promotes inclusion and participation, especially of persons with disability, aging populations, and people with non-communicable diseases. The primary purpose of …

  7. Almost one billion children and adults with disabilities and older ...

    May 16, 2022 · A new report published today by WHO and UNICEF reveals that more than 2.5 billion people need one or more assistive products, such as wheelchairs, hearing aids, or apps that support …

  8. Rehabilitative and Assistive Technology - NICHD - Eunice Kennedy ...

    Jul 1, 2017 · Rehabilitative and Assistive Technology Rehabilitative and assistive technology refers to tools, equipment, or products that can help people with disabilities successfully complete activities at …

  9. What are some types of assistive devices and how are they used?

    Oct 18, 2018 · Some examples of assistive technologies are: Some examples of assistive technologies are: Mobility aids, such as wheelchairs, scooters, walkers, canes, crutches 1, prosthetic devices, and …

  10. Assistive technology data portal - World Health Organization (WHO)

    The resolution on improving access to assistive technology (WHA71.8) urges all Member States to improve access to assistive technology and requests the World Health Organization (WHO) to …