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Career > Accommodations
Assistive Technology at Work: Finding and Funding the Tools You Need
...who need assistive technology at work encounter...reader, a voice recognition program, or an ergonomic...Pays for Assistive Technology at Work. Under the...ADA, when assistive technology constitutes a reasonable...software like voice recognition programs and text-to-speech...programs and text-to-speech tools, and modified...programs fund assistive technology as part of an Individualized...
Assistive Tech > Hearing
Assistive Technologies to Enhance Communication for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
What is Assistive Technology? Assistive technology...technology? Assistive technology helps people with...hearing, assistive technology helps them communicate...examples of assistive technology for hearing are:...loss understand speech better. Hearing...captioning uses speech recognition software...captioning uses speech recognition software to make...similar but puts the speech into a text document...
Medical > Pediatrics
Therapeutic Approaches to Autism: Exploring Pediatric Possibilities
...detection, therapists can introduce interventions that help to encourage speech, social skills, and positive behaviors during the most significant period...period of neuroplasticity. Individualized Education Programs (IEP). The recognition of autism's spectrum nature has resulted in the creation of Individualized...
Assistive Tech > Virtual Assistants
Training Voice Assistants to Recognize Atypical Speech Patterns
...dysarthria, or other speech impairments,...on standard speech patterns, and...with atypical speech. Strained voices,...articulation, the motor speech differences...confuse the recognition engine. But...engine. But voice recognition isn't a binary....that improve recognition or bypass the...for atypical speech, and what to...learn your speech patterns. The...to you, and recognition improves. For...
Assistive Tech > Virtual Assistants
Voice Command Setup for Smart Home Devices: Accessibility Beyond Mobility
...child's actual speech patterns and needs....command syntax, speech recognition quality,...syntax, speech recognition quality, and which...breath control or speech fatigue, brevity...has the strongest speech recognition for...strongest speech recognition for atypical speech....recognition for atypical speech. Multiple studies...If your child's speech is affected by...
Assistive Tech > Virtual Assistants
Alexa vs. Google Home: Which Virtual Assistant Works Best for Your Disability?
...This matters for users with motor speech disorders, limited lung capacity,...advantage. For users with atypical speech patterns, including dysarthria associated...represents the full range of human speech, and users with significant dysarthria...significant dysarthria encounter recognition failures that neither platform handles...
Assistive Tech > Hearing
Real-Time Captioning for Deaf Students: CART vs. Auto-Captions and What Works
...features, operate through automatic speech recognition. Under good conditions,...operate through automatic speech recognition. Under good conditions, with a single...minimal background noise, and standard speech patterns, accuracy can reach 80–85%....specialized vocabulary, accented speech, and ambient noise, accuracy drops...
Assistive Tech > Apps
Special Needs App: Dragon Dictation
Dragon Dictation is a useful tool for people who have difficulty typing or translating their thoughts into written words. This voice recognition app is powered by Dragon Naturally Speaking and allows the user to speak the content of emails, text messages, notes or even status updates for social...
Career > Interviewing
Addressing Visible Disabilities in Interviews: Proactive Disclosure Strategies
...bring it up, and you get to steer the conversation toward capability instead of limitation. Three Openers That Let You Lead. You don't need a scripted speech. You need a short, direct opener that you can adapt to the moment. Here are three frameworks that work. The functional redirect: "I use...
Career > Interviewing
Phone Interview Accommodations for Hearing and Speech Disabilities
How to request alternatives to phone screens including video with captions, email, or relay services when you're deaf or hard of hearing.
Career > Interviewing
Scripting Interview Answers: Preparing Responses Without Sounding Rehearsed
...for interview questions isn't optional when anxiety, processing speed, or speech differences are part of the picture. But there's a real problem with over-scripted...skips the hard part. For many job seekers with disabilities, working memory, speech fluency, and anxiety don't cooperate under pressure. What you need isn't...
Career > Discrimination
Disability Harassment at Work: Recognizing and Reporting Hostile Behavior
...that qualifies. Examples that meet the legal standard: Repeated offensive comments about your disability, even if framed as "jokes" Mimicking your speech, gait, or other disability-related characteristics Excluding you from meetings, projects, or work-related social events because of your disability...