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The Impact of ICT on a Person With Disabilties
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The Impact of ICT on a person with special/particular needs ICT is extremely important to thousands of people with disabilities in the UK today. From keeping them alive to allowing them to communicate with others, computers allow people with disabilities to live a normal life and still do the small things that others take for granted. I am going to investigate Stephen Hawking and how ICT helps him in his day-to-day life. He is a British theoretical physicist with ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis). He slowly lost the use of his arms and legs and after an operation to overcome his pneumonia; he lost the natural ability to speak. This affected his work, social and personal life at first but ICT has helped him to overcome that. A computerised wheelchair, a computer system on the wheelchair and an electronic voice synthesizer work together to ensure that Stephen Hawking's day to day life was...
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