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What is assistive technology?🤨 Assistive technology, sometimes referred to as personalised technology is used by individuals with disabilities in order to perform functions that might be difficult otherwise. These include technologies from simple automatic medicine dispensers and big button remote controls to internet connectivity, artificial intelligence, wearable health trackers and smart homes. ADVANTAGES OF ASSITIVE TECHNOLOGY😴 ASSITIVE TECHNOLOGY > enables people to live healthy, productive, independent, and dignified lives, and to participate in education, the labour market and civic life. Assistive technology reduces the need for formal health and support services, long-term care and the work of caregivers. Assistive technology helps to safeguard the people we support, increasing people’s independence, privacy and dignity by enabling care to be delivered only when needed. It also helps people to make their own choices and decisions about their lives. DISADVANTAGES ASSITIVE ...

  P0SITIVE IMPACT OF ICT                                                                                                                    Access to information:  Possibly the greatest effect of ICT on individuals is the huge increase in access to information and services that has accompanied the growth of the Internet. Some of the positive aspects of this increased access are better, and often cheaper, communications, such as VoIP phone and Instant Messaging. In addition, the use of ICT to access information has brought new opportunities for leisure and entertainment, the facility to make contacts and form relationships with people around the world, Improved access to education , e.g. dista...