Question

Explain how using assistive technology can promote healthy emotional and social development. Discuss how you think young children and teens may be affected and how the affects may extend into adult life.

Answer 1

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Explanation:

Any device, software, or equipment that helps people to work around their challenges or to make things less challenging is an assistive technology . Text-to-speech and word prediction are classic example of Assistive technology.

The primary purpose of Assistive technology is to maintain or improve an individual's functionality, Independence to facilitate participation and to enhance overall well-being. Assistive technologies are also useful to help prevent impairments and secondary health conditions.

For a child, assistive technology is a powerful tool to decrease dependence and improve participation especially group participation. It helps the child to become mobile, to be able to communicate more effectively, to see and hear better, and participate more fully in learning activities, this will make the child to grow into a healthy and well rounded teenager and a adult individual with the right amount of self esteem.

Answer 2

Well Assistive technology is technology used by individuals with disabilities in order to perform functions that might otherwise be difficult or impossible for them to do. So I can only think of pros for such a thing. So listing some of the pro’s how how such technology could help a child or teen and how it could change their lives. Like socially helping someone to hear, or be able to
communicate with others would be a major improvement to not just their social development but their mental one as well.