If you have advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD), you may have some challenges in living independently. But there are tools to make life with low vision from AMD easier. Today, assistive ...

Assistive technologies encompass a broad spectrum of tools and systems designed to support individuals with developmental disabilities in communication, mobility, learning and daily living. These ...

Nearly 80% of all stroke survivors experience walking issues, according to a study in the American Heart Association journal. For some of them, the solution is simple: ankle-foot orthoses (AFOs), ...

Background. Inserting peripheral intravenous (PIV) lines into often dehydrated, typically irritable, and universally uncooperative small children is an everyday task for many pediatric nurses. Success ...

Many of the skills that humans consider intelligent involve conscious effort, including prediction, long-term planning, and abstract problem solving. Movement, by contrast, is something most people ...

Depending on the sensory processing disorder (SPD), the best assistive devices for specific conditions can range from low-tech options to more advanced ones. Either way, the devices should engage the ...

A research paper by scientists at Hainan University proposed FSS-eq2Seq as a 2-stage strategy for gait synergy modeling in lower limb assistive devices to achieve synergic and user-adaptive ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - The STEM Club at Waco ISD’s Tennyson Middle School is learning engineering skills, designing assistive devices for students by using 3-D printers. "Last year, we had two 3-D ...