ADJUSTING TECHNOLOGY TO DISABLED STUDENTS NEEDS

ADA Technology is focused on helping severely disabled wheelchair-bound students because they are the sector of handicapped individuals, which badly need access to technology, and are more under-served in this area than other disabled users. The organization is working towards increasing and enhancing the severely disabled wheelchair-bound student’s education by empowering him or her with access and use of computers and online learning.

Eliminating barriers to Information Technology for severely disabled people is becoming possible because of new technologies and capabilities only recently made available. ADA Technology adapts Information Technology to disabled people by using these new technologies and its own innovations. ADA Technology’s innovations, thus, overcome problems of inaccessibility and the non-compatibility of modern hardware, software and the Internet applications.


Technology

ADA Technology concentrates on adapting the Internet environment to the severely disabled students through its own innovative and unique fully accessible ADA Tech learning web network.

The traditional way, where a user is adapted to the Internet, does not work for severely handicapped students; it is not user-friendly, time efficient or cost effective for them. In contrast, ADA Technology's approach "Adapting the Internet Environment to a Student" will offer optimum on-line learning experiences with minimum hardware, software and training costs.

The ADA Tech learning web network will build a fully accessible, compatible, and socially friendly web environment where disabled students can communicate and learn online flawlessly. They can choose their own learning material, the level of its accessibility, and time it is delivered. It will work much like the TV cable service ON Demand but with enhanced features and unique customization. The ADA Tech web server, like the cable provider, will collect web materials and courses for further distribution at the request of each student.

At the heart of ADA Technology is a desire to create a lasting solution for severely disabled wheelchair-bound students that works at the local level and can serve as a model for other communities.


Needs

There is a dramatic and unfulfilled need for access to information technology for severely disabled students in the local community , as well as nationwide. As a high-tech charity that uses cutting-edge technologies for helping people, ADA Technology can eliminate the gap in equal access to technology and, therefore, minimize challenges severely disabled students experience and face in their learning.


Strategic Vision

ADA Technology pursues information technology accessibility for severely disabled people as the process of the blending of research and development with community outreach and education. The organization is working towards bringing together new technologies and the community to help its most vulnerable citizens, the wheelchair-bound students with serious health impairments.