Americans with Disabilities

Safko International Inc. is a company which develops technology for the disabled, and president Lon Safko says that we are all only "temporarily ablebodied" and so will need some sort of assistance at some time in our lives. The company undertook ten years of research and development and sought input from more than 1,000 disabled individuals and rehabilitation centers to develop a system that allows the disabled a level of independence.

SenSei is a complete computer system providing handsfree access to computer technology, and this allows individuals able to move only their head to make phone calls, control their environment, lock and unlock doors, type, read books, and use other commercial software that allows them to return to work. This system can be used by businesses and educational facilities to bring the disabled back to work or school, which also helps these organizations comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The system costs $7,900, and the software can be purchased separately for those with a Macintosh computer (Disabled abled, 1995).

Computer technology makes it possible for the disabled to continue working in a numb

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