There is so much information available on the internet regarding assistive technology. Here are some of our favourite links. Save this page to your favourites now and come back to visit these links time and time again...Foundation for Assistive Technology – FAST The Foundation for Assistive Technology (FAST) works with the AT community to support innovation in product development and good practice in service provision.
Disabled Living Foundation - DLF is a national charity that provides free, impartial advice about all types of disability aids.
Royal National Institue for the Blind – RNIB is a website specifically for people with visual impairments, a great resource for information and best practice, it also sells products suitable for people with visual impairments through its online shop.
Royal National Institute for the Deaf – RNID is a website specifically for people with hearing impairments, a great resource for information and best practice, it also sells products suitable for people with hearing impairments through its online shop.
Halliday James – have developed I-Cue and Ablelink, i-Cue’s - Dynamic Support Environment Combines the functionality of both Telecare and smart house technology to create a living environment which provides both physical and cognitive support for the occupant. Ablelink - Cognitive Support Technology - is a suite of software programmes which provide person-centred cognitive support specifically targeted at people with Learning Difficulties and those with Acquired Brain Injury.
Tunstall - Telecare consists of a range of equipment that monitors the environment/person e.g. smoke detectors, extreme temperature sensors and epilepsy sensors are all designed to keep people safe and living in their own homes for longer and with reassurance. Tunstall's Telehealth solutions offer a way of delivering tailored care for people with long term conditions in their own homes, which helps improve quality of life and helps prevent avoidable hospital admissions. A series of tests can be carried out in the person’s own home, the results of which are fed, via the internet, to the person’s GP.
Simpla – have produced an easy to use phone.
CUHTec - Centre for Usable Home Technology is a joint venture between the University of York and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. It draws on a world-class interdisciplinary research base in Computer Science, Electronics and Psychology at the University of York.
CUHTec's aim is to ensure that future home technologies meet real social and personal needs by: working in collaboration with users, especially older and disabled people; articulating user requirements for the next generation of home technologies; providing events, courses and information; brokering partnerships to implement the requirements in mainstream products.
B&Q – Can Do range
B&Q Home Easy Range – a range of off the shelf products that can assist with turning equipment on and off along with the ability to operate equipment via a mobile phone, see the website for the full range of products.
Great Home Easy Demos – help you to see how the equipment works.
Ask Sara – a useful website for assessing need, the search engine asks for information and then gives suggestions about specific equipment that may be helpful.
1 comment:
While we deaf would agree it is a great BUSINESS, despite reservations It has a captive market and little competition, it is also important that people realize that its (RNID) remit as REPRESENTATION of deaf people's needs and aspirations is not valid.
Indeed it has no remit to empower deaf at the RNID itself, currently DEAF people will not use RNID equipment because of that, and oppose them as a charity on the political side. For readers information there is NO device that can assist hearing if you are DEAF, Unless you include the cochlear implant, which no-one suggests can replace effective hearing lost, and is a surgical procedure. Deaf would recommend Connavan's as a viable alternatibe to the RNID which is VERY expensive too, a fact you have also omitted.
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