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ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY AN OVERVIEW OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY: Learning disabilities can't be cured or fixed. But with the help of certain tools and techniques, a child (or adult) with a learning disability can work around his or her difficulties in reading, writing, spelling, math,Memory.Many children, adolescents and adults with disabilities can benefit from using tools to assist with everyday activities. The purpose of these teaching and learning tools and assistive technology devices is to help people work around specific deficits rather than fixing them. ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY CAN: *Help students to 'FIT IN' with classroom learning. *Improve the speed and accuracy of work. *Reinforce effective classroom instruction and strengthen skill development ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY CANNOT: *Compensate for ineffective teaching. *Make a learning disability go away. ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY IN SPORTS: Assistive technology in sport is an area of technology design that is growing. Assistive technology is the array of new devices created to enable sports enthusiasts who have disabilities to play.assistive technology may be used to invent completely new sports with athletes with disabilities exclusively in mind.

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY IN COMPUTER: Assistive technology devices have been created to enable people with disabilities to use modern touch screen mobile computers such as the iPad,iPhone and iPod touch.

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR COGNITION: Assistive technology for cognition is the use of technology to augment and assistive cognitive processes such as attention, memory,self-regulation,navigation, emotion recognition and management,planning and sequencing activity.