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Assistive Technologies System for Children with Special Needs

Discover the innovative Macedonian Assistive Technologies System (MATS) designed to support children with different disabilities such as mobility, sensory, intellectual, cognitive, and communication impairments. MATS provides a specialized collection of conventions, devices, and services tailored to assist children with disabilities in various activities. Learn about the different tools and rules of engagement involved in helping children with special needs, such as respectful language use and proper disability etiquette. Explore the EU-funded project AsTeRICS, which facilitates access for people with physical disabilities to different devices through an open-source software suite containing various plugins for enhanced functionality.

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Assistive Technologies System for Children with Special Needs

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  1. Assistive Technologies System for Children with Special Needs Prof. D-r. Dragan Mihajlov, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, 1000 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, dragan.mihajlov@finki.ukim.mk

  2. Assistive Technologies System for Children with Special Needs Whatever you teach you have to consider people with special needs

  3. Assistive Technologies System for Children with Special Needs

  4. Assistive Technologies System for Children with Special Needs

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  7. Assistive Technologies System for Children with Special Needs Assistive technologies have existed from the moment our prehistoric ancestors started using tools

  8. Assistive Technologies System for Children with Special Needs Assistive technologies  Purpose-built hardware or software,used by individuals in order to perform functions that would otherwise be difficult or impossible

  9. Assistive Technologies System for Children with Special Needs Mary Pat Radabaugh, Director of IBM National Support Center for Persons with Disabilities   "For people without disabilities, technology makes things easier. For people with disabilities, technology makes things possible.”

  10. Assistive Technologies System for Children with Special Needs In Republic of Macedonia the use of assistive technologies for children with special needs is in a very early phase We have been developing many systems for different people, supporting different kind of activities This system is different

  11. Assistive Technologies System for Children with Special Needs Macedonian Assistive Technologies System (MATS) for children with special needs

  12. Assistive Technologies System for Children with Special Needs Children with special needs have been classified into several categories: • mobility impairment, • sensory impairment (visual and hearing impairments) and • intellectual impairment (difficulties in understanding, expressing or interacting with other people)

  13. Assistive Technologies System for Children with Special Needs Different classification: Physical Disabilities Visual Disabilities Hearing Disabilities Cognitive Disabilities and Learning Disorders Communications Disabilities

  14. Assistive Technologies System for Children with Special Needs Different categories of children with special needs

  15. Assistive Technologies System for Children with Special Needs MATS is a collection of - conventions, - devices and - services  particularly chosen and applied for helping children with disabilities

  16. Assistive Technologies System for Children with Special Needs Some tools are very simple like cane for the visually impaired

  17. Assistive Technologies System for Children with Special Needs Other tools are very high technology

  18. Assistive Technologies System for Children with Special Needs Rules of Engagements or Disability etiquette What have we done until now First step Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will hurt forever

  19. Assistive Technologies System for Children with Special Needs Use respectful language Examples - Using the term “person without a disability” instead of “normal person” - Never move a person in a wheelchair unless you have permission from that person - Do not refer to people as blind, they are visually impaired - Do not refer to people as deaf, they are hearing impaired

  20. Assistive Technologies System for Children with Special Needs Center for people with disabilities "Open the windows” - adaptations (magnification, color, sound, keys and mouse speed, ...) - developing tools that will be in Macedonian language (Braile printer, …) - developing specialized educational software for students with special needs   . Macedonian alphabet to children with disabilities . First grade math . Macedonian speech synthesizer for visually impaired . Software for learning hand signs for hearing impaired

  21. Assistive Technologies System for Children with Special Needs EU-funded project AsTeRICS (Assistive Technology Rapid Integration and Construction Set)

  22. Assistive Technologies System for Children with Special Needs Facilitate access for people with a physical disabilityto different devices - personal computers, - cell phones - smart home devices The core of the software suite is provided as Open Source

  23. Assistive Technologies System for Children with Special Needs AsTeRICS contains about 100 plugins like - speech recognition, - environment control (KNX, FS20, IR-Trans), - mouse/keyboard emulation, - PS3 gamepad emulation - ... ...

  24. Assistive Technologies System for Children with Special Needs Gerhard Nussbaum

  25. Assistive Technologies System for Children with Special Needs We are proudly working on UNIX and Android implementations of AsTeRICS

  26. Assistive Technologies System for Children with Special Needs Teaching or helping child with special needs is like touching god

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