Assistive Technology and Rehabilitation Engineering

Assistive Technology devices can help improve physical or mental functioning, overcome a disorder or impairment, help prevent the worsening of a condition, strengthen a physical or mental weakness, help improve a person's capacity to learn, or even replace a missing limb.

Rehabilitation Engineering

Rehabilitation Engineering means the systematic application of engineering sciences to design, develop, adapt, test, evaluate, apply, and distribute technological solutions to problems confronted by individuals with disabilities in functional areas, such as mobility, communications, hearing, vision, and cognition, and in activities associated with employment, independent living, education, and integration into the community.

Rehabilitation Engineering is a multidisciplinary science and may include any or all of the following professions or areas of expertise.

Physical Therapist

Occupational Therapist

Rehabilitation Engineer

Rehabilitation Engineering Technician

Prosthetist

Physician

The Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering specialize in the areas of technology access for those with disabilities, in particular sensory disabilities such as the blind or deaf and today we will have a brief look at how people with these types of disability access technology, in particular computers and the web.