Apps for the Physically Disabled


Apps for the Physically Disabled

The world is already hard to navigate as it is for regular people. What more for people with disabilities? Whether it’s physical or mental, having a disability automatically makes life more challenging. It takes great strength for these people not to be deterred by their illnesses. One of the things that can help alleviate their stresses are tools designed specifically for their aid. With technological advancement, there are now apps specifically designed for people with disabilities. Here are some apps for the physically disabled that can hopefully help you or your loved ones.

Apps for the Physically Disabled

Choiceworks

Autism’s effects on individuals certainly reach physical levels. This includes involuntary body movements and unusual responses to certain triggers. Choiceworks is an app designed to help people with autism. It aids in encouraging individuals to address their feelings and be able to verbalize them. In addition, it also helps in maintaining an individual’s routines. Through this, they can better manage their feelings and, hopefully, their symptoms as well. It’s great for people struggling in social situations.

Wheelmap / Wheelmate

If you or someone you know is using a wheelchair, then you’re probably already aware of how some places still do not provide the necessary accessibility. Isn’t it sad and frustrating? Thankfully, there are apps that help in this scenario like Wheelmap and Wheelmate. Wheelmap is an app that shows users which bars, cinemas, and restaurants offer proper accessibility for people on wheelchairs. On the other hand, Wheelmate is an app that locates bathrooms and parking spots that provide accessibility for wheelchairs. This way, you can plan ahead of time before going out.

Voice Dream Reader

Voice Dream Reader is a great app that helps people with a visual disability that hinders them from reading clearly. People with learning differences may also find this app helpful. One of its features is the synchronized highlighting of words with text-to-speech. It’s an app that can make reading for these individuals easier. Through this, learning doesn’t stop for these people despite their disability.

Avaz Australia

If you have a child who has communication challenges, you should take a look at Avaz Australia. It’s an app specifically designed for people born with autism, Down syndrome, and Cerebral Palsy. Avaz Australia features a picture-based communication option so it’s extremely helpful especially for non-verbal children. This app promotes engagement between these children and their parents and loves ones.

Petralex

If you have a hearing disability, Petralex is an app that might be of help to you. It’s basically a hearing aid app for people struggling to hear clearly. This app serves as a personal hearing amplifier for users. It’s especially helpful for people in a social setting.

Be My Eyes

Not having your eyesight makes it extremely difficult to navigate places, to say the least. For people who are partially or fully blind, this app called Be My Eyes may be useful to them. Used by people all over the world, this app serves as a connection between blind people and volunteers. Using a smartphone camera, blind users can ask for assistance from people who are able to see in describing what’s in front of them.

Stepping Stones

Another app that provides visual support is Stepping Stones. This is specially designed for children and adults with developmental disabilities such as autism. Even people with auditory processing deficits and learning disabilities can benefit from this app. This is because some individuals that suffer from these disabilities also experience physical effects that can only be aided by visual support.

RogerVoice

Deaf and hard of hearing people rely on their other senses to communicate with other people. This is why they use sign language. However, this is impossible in phone calls. Fortunately, there are apps like RogerVoice that’s designed to help them overcome that challenge. This app features a technology that can provide captioned cellphone calls. Its simple interface enables deaf individuals to speak while its voice recognition feature shows a transcript of the other caller’s words. While the accuracy of the words would depend on audio quality, this app is still quite helpful in making phone calls much easier for the hearing-impaired.

Spoken AAC

Individuals with speech and language disorders also struggle to communicate with other people. An app called Spoken AAC helps users communicate with other people through its predictive technology. It predicts the next words that the users are about to say so that they can complete sentences much easier. In terms of the users’ improvement, this is much better than limiting them to using just simple phrases and icons. The app also learns the users’ patterns over time so usability improves as time goes on.

These are only some of the apps that people with physical disabilities can download and use for their convenience. They are designed to encourage people with physical disabilities to continue living their best life possible. Hopefully, these apps somehow provide a little bit of comfort to people struggling with their physical illnesses. Through this, they may experience an improved way of living.

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Kokou Adzo

Kokou Adzo is a stalwart in the tech journalism community, has been chronicling the ever-evolving world of Apple products and innovations for over a decade. As a Senior Author at Apple Gazette, Kokou combines a deep passion for technology with an innate ability to translate complex tech jargon into relatable insights for everyday users.

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