Assistive technology for people with disabilities: How has it improved your life?

The only technology I need is my late wife's Personal Transportation Cruiser.

The intrusive implantation of cookies into my desk top is a violation of the fourth amendment and cookies should be banned, to promote the general welfare.

I would be totally lost without my Ring Door Bell. If I have a delivery, I can ask them to open the front door and leave it in the vestibule and they are all great about it. I’m on 24/7 oxygen and for me to walk to the front door take the delivery I’m goosed and breathing like I’ve just ran a marathon, then it’s the same again taking the delivery in and walking back to the living room. I’ve even set my Ring Door Bell to tell whoever has pressed the bell that it’ll take me a little time to get to the door. Some respond well to this except the Amazon delivery folk, they just dump the parcel on the step and walk away, they don’t even wait for the message to finish.

My house lights I can work from my phone, my husband sorted all this out for me.

I’ve got a Mobility Scooter that I use when I go out and use my mobile Oxygen Concentrator that I can carry it across my body in its special bag.

Hope you are all well.

Pam

I don't use assistive technology myself, but my 11-year-old niece who is disabled uses an eye gaze to help her to communicate.

She can talk a little bit and uses Makaton to ask her mum, my youngest sister for something.

One of my niece's favourite ways to ask for something is to point at it and then look at her mum and her mum will tell her to use her words if it's something she knows that she can say, which encourages my niece to talk more.

She gets really excited whenever I go and visit her as she runs over to me in her own way of running with her arms out stretched for a hug off her auntie TT. She tries to say TJ, but I think it's still a bit hard for her to say.