How does assistive technology help people with a spinal cord injury? - Sarah Harrison, OT

So assistive technology looks at how are you going to access your keyboard when you have limited hand function?—how are you going to hold a stylus or operate an iPhone or Smartphone without finger dexterity? We’re trying to problem-solve how are you going to go back to using those things in this technology-driven world when you don’t necessarily have finger function? Say you’re a 23-year-old college kid and you’re majoring in journalism, and you need to go back and use your computer to write your essays. So there’re different programs that use voice-activated systems so that you can use to write your paper without having to type.