Assistive technologies, educational engagement and psychosocial outcomes among students with disabilities in higher education

A McNicholl, D Desmond… - Disability and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Increasing numbers of students with disabilities are accessing higher education
each year, yet little is known about their assistive technology (AT) needs and its influence on …

A framework for a new approach to empower users through low-cost and do-it-yourself assistive technology

T Pousada Garcia, J Garabal-Barbeira… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Background: Assistive Technology (AT) refers to “assistive products and related systems and
services developed for people to maintain or improve functioning and thereby to promote …

How loan bank of assistive technology impacts on life of persons with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and neuromuscular diseases: a collaborative initiative

T Pousada, J Garabal-Barbeira, C Martínez… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
(1) Background: The study is focused on the implementation of outcome measurement tools
to assess the impact of an assistive device from a loan bank in the lives of people with …

Which environmental factors have the highest impact on the performance of people experiencing difficulties in capacity?

V Loidl, C Oberhauser, C Ballert, M Coenen… - International journal of …, 2016 - mdpi.com
Disability is understood by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the outcome of the
interaction between a health condition and personal and environmental factors …

Clinical features of children and adults with a muscular dystrophy using powered indoor/outdoor wheelchairs: disease features, comorbidities and complications of …

AO Frank, LH De Souza - Disability and rehabilitation, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose: To describe the clinical features of electric powered indoor/outdoor wheelchair
users with a muscular dystrophy, likely to influence optimal prescription; reflecting features of …

Assessment and counseling to get the best efficiency and effectiveness of the assistive technology (MATCH): Study protocol

T Pousada García, B Groba Gonzalez, L Nieto-Riveiro… - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Aims To determine the psychosocial impact of assistive technology (AT) based on robotics
and artificial intelligence in the life of people with disabilities. Background The best match …

The Arabic psychosocial impact of assistive devices scale: Development, translation, and evaluation

B Boyle, I Arnedillo-Sanchez, A Zahid… - Assistive …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This paper describes the development, translation, and early evaluation of the Arabic
Psychosocial Impact of Assistive Devices Scale (AR-PIADS), an outcome measure …

Psychosocial impact of mobility assistive technology on people with neurological conditions

E Jimenez Arberas… - Disability and …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction A wide range of products are available to assist mobility, and it is, therefore, of
great importance to obtain empirical information regarding the expected impact of the use of …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of accuracy of activity measurements with wearable activity trackers in wheelchair users: a preliminary evaluation

NH Benning, P Knaup, R Rupp - GMS Med Inform Biom Epidemiol, 2020 - egms.de
Background: Central nervous system diseases or injuries such as spinal cord injury (SCI)
are often associated with a severe impairment of ambulatory function and result in …

An OMERACT initiative toward consensus to identify and characterize candidate contextual factors: report from the contextual factors working group

ME Finger, A Boonen, TG Woodworth… - The Journal of …, 2017 - jrheum.org
Objective. The importance of contextual factors (CF) for appropriate patient-specific care is
widely acknowledged. However, evidence in clinical trials on how CF influence outcomes …