At the Lega del Filo d’Oro there are quite a few assistive technological aids which can be used to enhance the autonomy of individuals with deafblindness and improve their talents: from video magnifiers for texts and pictures to vocal synthesizers to rework a written textual content into sound, but in addition computerized programs which, utilizing particular software program, enable deafblind individuals to surf the web and ship e-mails and textual content messages. The identical Lega del Filo d’Oro develops prototypes and advert hoc options within the subject of communication aids, which make it doable to extend the autonomy and potential of deafblind and psychosensory impaired individuals, making an allowance for their particular circumstances: a change for instance permits to independently activate music or a cellphone name and people with motor difficulties also can “press” it with the again of their head.
«If for most individuals know-how is one thing that simplifies every day life, for individuals with extreme disabilities know-how is what makes issues doable, favoring integration and inclusion, selling autonomy and considerably growing high quality of life,” he declares Patrizia Ceccarani, scientific technical director of the muse. «The final purpose of the Lega del Filo d’Oro is at all times to make sure that those that can not see or hear have all of the instruments to self-determine, the place doable. Faced with the extraordinary technological advances that we see every single day, we more and more want research and analysis on new applied sciences, each to use them to the rehabilitation and care of individuals with disabilities, and to assist the work of workers and to encourage interplay with the members of the family of our customers”.
An proof primarily based convention
The alternative to take inventory of the most recent research and new frontiers on assistive applied sciences within the rehabilitation of individuals with mental and a number of disabilities would be the third version of the Assistive Technology and Disabilities Conference (ATAD Conference), organized and promoted by the Lega del Filo d’Oro. The occasion, “Technology to assist individuals with mental and a number of disabilities, for the promotion of bodily exercise, advanced duties and leisure and communicative operate” will tackle the difficulty of assistive applied sciences from a number of factors of view: to advertise communicative and leisure operate of the particular person with disabilities, but in addition to advertise bodily exercise and sophisticated duties. The initiative will happen on Friday 17 May 2024 on the National Center of the Lega del Filo d’Oro, in Osimo, and can see the participation of among the essential specialists within the sector, along with Italian and worldwide researchers (the occasion may even be accessible by means of the webinar mode).
Many subjects have been addressed through the ATAD Conference, beginning with how technological helps can be utilized with individuals with extreme and a number of mental disabilities (Mark O’Reilly – University of Texas); new practices to assist bodily exercise (Chiara Filippini and Gloria Alberti – Lega del Filo d’Oro Foundation); applied sciences and packages to facilitate the efficiency of advanced every day actions (Lorenzo Desideri – University of Milan); useful communication and assistive applied sciences for overcoming behavioral issues in individuals with mental and neurodevelopmental disabilities (Terry Falcomata – University of Texas); applied sciences and packages to advertise impartial entry to leisure actions, communicative interactions and useful duties in individuals with mental and a number of disabilities (Gloria Alberti and Giulio Lancioni – Lega del Filo d’Oro Foundation); applied sciences and packages to advertise leisure exercise and communicative interactions in individuals with extreme neuromotor disabilities (Fiora D’Amico – RSA Villa Argento Group Integrated Healthcare Residences Alberobello and Noicattaro, BA). Two dialogue tables are scheduled, moderated by the professor Carlo RicciPresident of the Technical, Scientific and Ethical Committee of the Lega del Filo d’Oro, Salesian Pontifical University, with the participation of Holy Again (University of Catania), Serafina Buono (Troina Oasis), Francesco Pezzuoli (University of Camerino), Raffaele di Fuccio (University of Foggia), Angelo Rega (Federico II University of Naples), Paolo Moderato (IESCUM of Milan).
Stimulation for studying
«Research fulfills a basic activity», he recollects Carlo Ricci, president of the Technical, Scientific and Ethical Committee of the Lega del Filo d’Oro Foundation: «acquire proof on the efficient usability of the know-how by individuals with extreme impairments in cognitive, sensory and motor abilities and confirm its effectiveness, so as to have the ability to disseminate them to extend the inhabitants probably benefiting from this know-how”. The Research Center of the Lega del Filo d’Oro was created to develop, present solutions and stimulate person studying and its exercise has developed to extend new applied sciences to enhance present ones, which are sometimes not sufficiently tailored to disabilities of the particular person, and make them as autonomous as doable. All analysis tasks purpose to advertise individuals’s independence and their autonomous and satisfying interplay with the encircling surroundings. Eight tasks have been activated throughout 2023, involving 48 customers.