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State

Pennsylvania

National Resource

Yes

Topics

Assistive Technology

Keywords

Accessibility, Cognitive rehabilitation, Communication Technologies, Functional limitations, Rehabilitation engineering centers, Vocational rehabilitation, university, RERC, research, engineering

Description

The goal of this RERC at University of Pittsburgh is to mitigate accessibility barriers to information and communication technology (ICT) for persons with disabilities (PwDs) with functional and device limitations, provide affordable access to ICT for underserved populations, and develop innovative ICT to improve health and function, social participation, and employment among PwDs.

Services Provided

The theme of “From Cloud to Smartphone: Empowering and Accessible ICT” guides the Center’s research and development activities which address cognitive and vocational rehabilitation, communication technology assessment and training, tele-rehabilitation infrastructure, and prevention and management of secondary conditions through six projects: (1) Cloud Accessibility WebAnywhere, (2) Accessible TeleWellness, (3) Accessible Mobile Vocational Coaching, (4) Speech and Language Teletherapy to Rural Underserved Areas, (5) Adaptive Accessible mHealth Transcoding, (5) Longitudinal Accessibility of Web 2.0, and (6) Privacy and Security for PwDs. Center collaborators include the University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, the Computer Sciences Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the DePaul School of Hearing and Speech.