Assistive technologies as rights enablers

Pedro Encarnação; Albert M. Cook

doi:10.4324/9781003056737-33

Assistive technologies as rights enablers

Pedro Encarnação, Albert M. Cook

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The Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability establish the rights for all children. For some children, enjoying those rights depends on or is facilitated by assistive technology, that is, products adapted or designed for improving the functioning of disabled people and all services inherent to the selection, acquisition, and use of assistive products. This chapter reviews the definition of assistive technology and briefly describes assistive products categories to show the breadth of assistive products available. It then discusses children rights and how they can be mediated or moderated by assistive technologies. Some of the challenges and ethical issues of assistive technology provision for children are also examined.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Routledge international handbook of children's rights and disability
Editors	Angharad E. Beckett, Anne-Marie Callus
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Chapter	24
Pages	432-449
Number of pages	18
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9781003056737
ISBN (Print)	9781000862195
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003056737-33
Publication status	Published - 5 Apr 2023

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