Assistive technology is a multidisciplinary field that encompasses inventing and designing devices that will help people with physical disabilities to overcome their difficulties. For people with hearing or visual impairment life becomes much easier with assistive technology products like virtual screen readers or voice recognizers.

Today there are many organizations dedicatedly promoting research and development of assistive technology. You will also find renowned hardware and software manufacturing companies selling adaptive and rehabilitative devices which are products of assistive technology. However, one needs to be a little cautious while buying any such device because determining the right device for the right person is crucial.

People having cognitive difficulties can feel free to use computers with a variety of computer hardware support such as –

• Adaptive Layout keyboard
• Big Keys keyboard
• Ergonomic and flexible keyboard
• Keyboard Input devices
• One-handed Typing keyboards
• Braille Keyboards with Visual Impairment support
• Braille note taker
• Hands-free mouse
• Pointing Device Mouse

Most of these devices come with respective driver software. And finally there are the speech support software packages integrating high quality text-to-speech conversion tools to benefit visually impaired people.