Dexterity and Mobility

• Hardware and Software Companies
• Neil Squire Society

http://www.neilsquire.ca/

The Neil Squire Society is a national not-for-profit organization that has for over twenty-five years empowered people with physical disabilities through the use of computer-based assistive technologies, research and development, and various employment programs. Neil Squire helps clients remove barriers so that they can live independent lives and become active members of the workplace and our society. Specializing in education and workplace empowerment, the Society has served over 20,000 people since 1984.

• MadenTec

http://www.madentec.com/products/

Madentec Limited is a leading supplier of assistive technology for people with physical disabilities. Products include solutions for accessing and controlling a computer or communication device 100% hands-free by using Tracker products as well as an alternate keyboard or scanning access through the Discover product line. The products are ideally suited to people with severe physical disabilities, including: quadriplegia, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, ALS and muscular dystrophy.

• Solutions
• The Sip/Puff Solution

The Sip/Puff solutions are ideal for people who have limited or no motor capability enabling them to operate switch activated devices, including computers, augmentative communication devices, adapted toys, environmental control systems and devices accessed or controlled by scanning. Sip/Puff technology is also popular for wheel chair navigation.

For people effected with severe motor disabilities, manipulating a standard switch can be difficult, tiring and in some cases impossible. With Origin Instruments Sip/Puff offerings users can easily activate and have control over devices through a simple "sip" and/or "puff" into a mouth tube.

http://orin.com/access/sip_puff/index.htm




• Touch screen

Pointing at something you want is a natural way to communicate. Young children often point accurately and with understanding long before they can react in other ways. Bright, noisy computer programs can provide the stimulus needed by children and people with special needs. However, a mouse may require too much motor skill and switches may be too indirect. Touch monitors operate with standard mouse operated programs and provide the most direct input method of all. The user watches the screen and uses it as an input method. There is a direct connection between action and result.




http://abilitynet.wetpaint.com/page/Touchscreens+and+Tablet+PCs