“Assistive technology is a generic term that includes assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices for people with disabilities and includes the process used in selecting, locating, and using them”. (Retrieved 26 May 2009 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistive_technology)
A piece of assistive technology that was explored in tutorial 7, was the ‘Talking Photo Album’. This is a device that allows messages – up to 10 seconds in length - to be recorded and played back. Drawings or photographs can be inserted into the plastic wallets to compliment this recorded information. The ‘Talking Photo Album’ is available from Star-Educational in either an A3 ($88) or A5 size ($65). It can be viewed and/or purchased online at: http://www.star-educational.co.nz/view_details.php?detail=true&cat=42&subcat=&id=107
“The Talking Photo Album supports speaking and listening…especially focusing on photo sequences, presentations, hiding and revealing pictures and word recognition”.
(Retrieved 26 May 2009 from http://www.star-educational.co.nz/view_details.php?detail=true&cat=42&subcat=&id=106
This technology was used in the tutorial to provide instructions on how to make pikelets. Each stage of the recipe could be played back at the touch of a button if instructions had not been understood.
The Talking Photo Album could be used to aid people with short term memory problems in that tasks can be recorded in sequence, and replayed if the information has not been processed or forgotten. It could also be used as a form of communicating personal thoughts to others e.g. someone with Motor Neurone who may lose the ability to talk as the disease progresses, could record their thoughts about special photos which they can then share with others.
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