Assistive Technology

After researching assistive technology, I learned so much about what is out there for people to use, and why someone might need it. To me, the most interesting thing was the special type of mouse for people with muscle control problems. It helps them by giving them and enlarged picture of the screen, so they have a bigger target to hit for a button, so they don’t hit the wring one. What I found the most surprising was the Braille Music. I never even heard of this, or though it was possible for a blind person to read sheet music, I just thought they learned by hearing and repeating the music. The one I thought was the most beneficial to users would be the mouse. This can help them in anything. Everything now a days is on the computer and the buttons and fields to click are small.

If I had to use some of the technology I researched, I would feel weird. Most people you see don’t have to use these things. It would make me feel like I wasn’t normal or I didn’t belong. The technology could help me a lot, though. In school, the mouse would let me be able to do computers class much easier than trying to use a regular mouse. I would be able to do everything as quick as the other kids, rather than spending a half hour trying to click in a tiny felid, and keep missing. In everyday life, I would be able to use all the social networking sites, like everyone else. I would be able to do pretty much the same things as everyone else.

People would look at people using the assistive technology that I researched. They wouldn’t do it to be rude, but using it makes you different from everyone else. If you were using the mouse, nobody could really tell, unless, they were really concentrating on the screen. It would look normal. IF someone saw someone reading and playing Braille music, they would be stared at. It looks much different than playing regular music. People would be really interested in what they are doing, and how they are doing it. Lastly, if someone saw someone using “the Cube” they would stare. Again, not to be rude, just it’s so different from what people are used to seeing. The person with the disability had to go to a certain tile and something will happen and reveal an image. Most people, never see this, it’s new to th

Assistive Technology

Many people have disabilities. With the help of assistive technology, they can live normal, happy lives. Assistive technology is technology used to help someone with a disability; like hearing aids for the deaf, hard ware that reads out-loud words on the computer, or even a wheelchair. There are many people out there with disabilities educating and researching better ways to fix the problem, like Deidre Downs, Jenny McCarthy, and Helen Keller.

Deidre Downs was Miss America 2005. She has been struggling with hearing loss, since she was in kindergarten. After Miss America, she went back to college to become a doctor. She now is a speaker for the Better Hearing Institute and travels, helping kids with their hearing loss problems.

Aimee Mullins had fibular hemimelia (missing fibula bones) and had both of her legs amputated below the knee when she was just one year old. While attending Georgetown University she competed against able-bodied athletes in NCAA Division I track and field events and set Paralympics’ records in 1996 in Atlanta in the 100-meter dash and the long jump. The prostatic legs allowed her to be able to run and still do everything she wanted.

Jerry Traylor has cerebral palsy. He is the only person to jog across America on crutches. Traylor underwent 14 corrective surgeries and spent nearly a year in the hospital when he was 6 years old. When crutches replaced the braces holding his legs at age 14, Traylor said he experienced a sense of freedom that was unbelievable. Traylor has also participated in the running of 35 marathons, climbed to the top of 14,110 foot Pike's Peak, parachuting and other adventures.

               

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Practice Test

My Wordle from My Haloween Story

Online A Reveiw

Hey there! I’m back with my review for a test for Online A…

Words I Have in my Notes:

·         Creative Commons

·         Intellectual Property

·         Copyright

·         Public Domain

·         Derivative

·         Firewall

·         Attribution

·         Commercial Use

·         Share-Alike

·         Virus

·         Hacking

·         Piracy

·         Phishing

·         Identity Theft

·         Cloud

·         Filesharing

Words I do not Have in my Notes:

·         Freeware- Software that is free of charge

·         Shareware- Software that is available free of charge and often distributed informally for evaluation, after which a fee may be requested for continued use

·         Open Source- Denoting software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed with or without modification

·         Malware-Software that is intended to damage or disable computers and computer systems

·         Data Back-Ups- Making copies of data so that these additional copies may be used to restore the original after a data loss event

·         Cookies- A short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site

The duties of the Federal Trade Commission are to educate the public about Identity Theft. Copyright and CC fall into this category because they deal with people taking for others and then presenting it as their own.