ASSISTIVE

MEDIA
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• Mobility aids, such as wheelchairs,

scooters, walkers, canes, crutches,
prosthetic devices, and orthotic devices.

• Hearing aids to help people hear or hear

more clearly.

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• Cognitive aids, including computer or electrical assistive
devices, to help people with memory, attention, or other
challenges in their thinking skills.

• Computer software and hardware, such as voice

recognition programs, screen readers, and screen
enlargement applications, to help people with mobility
and sensory impairments use computers and mobile
devices.

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• Tools such as automatic page turners, book

holders, and adapted pencil grips to help
learners with disabilities participate in
educational activities
• Closed captioning to allow people with hearing
problems to watch movies, television
programs, and other digital media

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• “Phonograph books will speak to blind

people without effort on their part”

-Thomas Edison, 1877

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• -Assistive Media was the first internet-

based audio reading service for persons
with print reading barriers thereby opening
a unique avenue of accessibility for many
individuals with cognitive, physical, and
communication disabilities.

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• Founded in 1996, assistive media is an

internet delivered audio reading service
for people with visual or perceptual
reading impairments.

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• The audio recordings of the literary

works produced byAssistive Media are
now easily accessible, on-demand, to
the ever growing number of persons
with disabilities who now use the
Internet.

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