Technology opening new doors for disabled.

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http://www.latimes.com/health/ct-met-disabled-tech-20101101,0,5650934.story

Posted by: Gurpreet Janjua

Summary:

Technology is creating new opportunities for countless people with disabilities. It’s about the rare neurological disorder that makes people difficult to get around and communicate. But fastened to the front of the teen's wheelchair is a computer that has changed their life.

 The technology has created something very unique to help those who are Unable to walk or communicate to complete their basic needs. This device automatically detect a person's needs and become more user-friendly, and a transformed Internet that welcomes the blind and developmentally disabled .Also included music players that can tell you the color of your shirt, devices that translate Web pages into computers that are controlled by eye movement.

This article also talk about how I phone is reliable for people who have vision problems, its easily adjustable text size make it much simpler to use. However technology is the solution to everything but it plays a significant role in human life.

Technology promised to be advances but the cost of it will keep helpful devices away from many people's reach. A related concern that governments, schools and institutions might think that high-tech has relieved them of their responsibility to serve the disabled.


Key Facts: 

The facts that caught my attention were that technology is giving new hope and a chance to people who are unsuccessful to fulfill their basic need by themselves. Now day’s technology is providing with needs of disabled kids that nature couldn’t help. As mention in the summary of the article, technology is not everything- it cannot replace caring and loving, social skills that a person can give But, it is a great approach to help disable ones. Technology can be extremely expensive but somehow it should be available to the needed person.