Journal of Assistive Technologies: Volume 2 Issue 4

Editorial

Chris Abbott

Individual and environmental conditions for the literacy development of pupils with severe visual impairments

Astrid Vik

This study investigates how environmental conditions for development in reading, as well as support in Braille and assistive technology, have influenced the literacy of 11 pupils…

Age, mobility and email

John Murnane

This research project investigated practical aspects of teaching older, retired people to use the Internet, with particular emphasis on email. The study was carried out in…

Barriers to effective communication between patients using insulin pump therapy technology to enable intensive diabetes self‐management and the health professionals providing their diabetes care

Valerie Wilson

This paper explores intensive self‐management of type 1 diabetes with insulin pump therapy as an enabling technology and reports barriers in the communication process with health…

An introduction to the Bercow Report

Deanne Rennie, Jannet Wright

Response to the Bercow Report: Can the next generation of teachers harness the potential of assistive and enabling technologies?

Mike Blamires

This paper considers the accountability frameworks that are intended to determine the quality of teachers graduating from training programmes and considers how these frameworks…

Social networking

David Banes

Chances and risks of the Internet of the future from the perspective of people with disabilities. A brief report of the first results of an online study

Christian Schmitz

Home telehospice: new tools for end‐of‐life care services

Audrey Kinsella, Kevin Doughty

Hospices offer people a place to die with dignity, but their numbers are so limited that most people die in hospital or in a care home. This paper describes the development of a…