🔷Just published #OpenAccess @banens.bsky.social
While the ‘Right to Repair’ #RTR campaign has sought to protect consumers’ ability to maintain and repair the goods - critical sectors like #MedicalDevices and #AssistiveTechnologies remain understudied
#copyright #IoT
🔗 doi.org/10.5204/lthj...
This is why I won't ever say AI is bad it drives many assistive technologies. Like my transcribe software on my phone that lets me "hear" others. It's not perfect or maybe it was my western Canada accent but I said sells not solve. But this gives me independence.
#AI #AssistiveTechnologies
Exciting 2nd keynote at #AAATE2025: The need and right to play for children with disabilities. What role for #AssistiveTechnologies by Prof. Serenella Besio from the University of Bergamo: aaate2025.eu
5 assistive technology apps for mood disorders. #mooddisorders #depression #bipolardisorder #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #assistivetechnologies youtu.be/aFTeOQJgvqM
© A. Rahhal / HI: Mohamed, in the province of Idleb. In 2020, while he was playing in his garden, a remaining explosive device exploded under his feet. His lower right leg had to be amputated. He is undergoing rehabilitation at the Aqrabat hospital, an HI partner in Syria.
Visuel (c)HI: #EwipaDeclaration #HumanitarianCommitments
#Rehabilitation & #AssistiveTechnologies must be priorities!
📢 Govts, donors, humanitarian actors must:
✅ Recognize rehab as a critical part of humanitarian response,
✅ Provide it for all those in need,
✅Connect trauma care, rehab & long-term support.
#EwipaDeclaration #HumanitarianCommitments
Visuel (c)HI: Approx. 3 million Syrians have been injured, and almost half of them have permanent impairments, including 86,000 amputations. (HI and WHO, 2017)
Visuel (c)HI: #EwipaDeclaration #HumanitarianCommitments
#ExplosiveWeapons cause complex injuries that demand urgent #rehabilitation & #AssistiveTechnologies, like brain & spinal trauma, amputations...
💣After conflicts, unexploded ordnance continues to harm civilians.
📢 #RehabMatters !
#EwipaDeclaration #HumanitarianCommitments
Recommendations: 1) Step up financial and technical resources to deliver systematic and long-term support to victims. 2) Promote a person-centred approach in victim assistance and the provision of rehabilitation services 3) Strengthen rehabilitation services and assistive technology within health systems. 4) Ensure humanitarian access in situations of armed conflicts and embed victim assistance and rehabilitation in the humanitarian response. 5) Expand health and social welfare mechanism coverage of rehabilitation and assistive technology costs. 6) Increase the accessibility and affordability of quality assistive technology. 7) Ensure meaningful participation of victims, survivors, persons with disabilities and rehabilitation users. 8) Ensure an adequate level of financial and technical support for victim assistance. 9) Deliver risk education and prevention activities. 10) Support research on rehabilitation and assistive technology.
📢 Throwback to our #RehabMatters campaign
Over the past weeks, we’ve shed light on the stories & challenges of women & men in conflict-affected areas, incl. persons with disabilities.
➡️Here are our recommendations to scale up efforts in providing quality #rehabilitation & #AssistiveTechnologies
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© Juan Manuel Vargas / HI Andrés’ story - Moving on (Colombia) Andrés was 23 when a cylinder bomb exploded close to the motorbike he was riding. He had multiple surgeries, along with physiotherapy and speech therapy sessions. As he began the process of obtaining his first prosthesis, he faced several administrative hurdles in a system that still views good-quality, high-tech assistive technology, as luxury items. Additionally, at that time, he did not receive psychological counselling. “Recovery was a bitter process, because the system is precarious and there is little state support and aid for the victims”.
💡 #RehabMatters
Injuries from explosive weapons can lead to long-term impacts. #Rehabilitation and #AssistiveTechnologies are crucial to improving the health and the quality of life of those affected.
This is Andrés' story from Colombia:
The Canadian pioneer of assistive technology is now able to expand across the North American market and empower individuals with mobility and communication challenges.
#humaninterfaces #assistivetechnologies #remotecontrol
Card saying "The EU has ratified the UN CRPD but is it doing enough? With a illustrated hand holding a megaphone
he reports points to 8 other key concerns:
1️⃣No comprehensive EU anti-discrimination legislation.
2️⃣Persistent use of #EUFunds to finance segregating living settings.
3️⃣Exclusion of specific rights of women with disabilities.
4️⃣Lack of access to #AssistiveTechnologies
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