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Technological advances making life easier for people with physical and mental challenges

rate the machine and do his job.

Conway is working on several other projects for persons with motor disabilities. For example, one paraplegic working in a library pushes a big red button in order to scan bar codes on books and student ID cards so children can check books.

While these technological devices promote useful job skills, there may be also a non-intrinsic value to these devices: "The students in the elementary school are seeing her perform a job function, seeing what she can do. The students are not afraid of her anymore," Conway says.


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