Purpose of Website
To inform and educate the population or interested persons of assistive technology devices available to persons with a disability, especially in Trinidad and Tobago. Assistive technology has the powerful potential of impacting significantly upon a student with disabilities by contributing to his or her learning, independence, self esteem, and quality of life.
This website itemizes assistive technologies to assist persons in reading, writing, remembering, walking, sitting, seeing, hearing, and communicating. Any student who needs help with any of these life functions may benefit significantly from the use of assistive technology and the information provided in this website.
To inform and educate the population or interested persons of assistive technology devices available to persons with a disability, especially in Trinidad and Tobago. Assistive technology has the powerful potential of impacting significantly upon a student with disabilities by contributing to his or her learning, independence, self esteem, and quality of life.
This website itemizes assistive technologies to assist persons in reading, writing, remembering, walking, sitting, seeing, hearing, and communicating. Any student who needs help with any of these life functions may benefit significantly from the use of assistive technology and the information provided in this website.
Personal Perspective on children with Disabilities
"I Raise My Eyes To Say Yes" by Sienkiewicz-Mercer
A Memoir Written by: Ruth Sienkiewicz-Mercer and Steven B. Kaplan
Ruth Sienkiewicz-Mercer was born in 1950. She has never spoken a word, never walked, never fed herself, never combed her own hair. Trapped in a body that is functionally useless, her mind works perfectly. This is her story. Absorbing and hearbreaking, it was written with the collaboration of Ruth's friend, Steven Kaplan. Without any self-pity, Ruth recounts her early childhood with a loving family and some happy years at a rehabilitation center, then virtual incarceration at the notorious Belchertown State School in Massachusetts.
After sixteen years she was released, to enjoy a life of purpose and personal triumph.
I Raise My Eyes To Say Yes will permanently alter the reader's perception of the severely disabled. But it also expresses larger truths, and demonstrate the extraordinary power of love, thought, and the human spirit.
http://www.iraisemyeyes.com/
"An extraordinary look at being severely disabled in a society that is ill-prepared to cope with the handicapped."
~ NY Times Book Review
"A remarkable collaboration...both sad and triumphant."
~ People Magazine
"The wrenching story of one woman's struggle against silence." ~Newsday
A Memoir Written by: Ruth Sienkiewicz-Mercer and Steven B. Kaplan
Ruth Sienkiewicz-Mercer was born in 1950. She has never spoken a word, never walked, never fed herself, never combed her own hair. Trapped in a body that is functionally useless, her mind works perfectly. This is her story. Absorbing and hearbreaking, it was written with the collaboration of Ruth's friend, Steven Kaplan. Without any self-pity, Ruth recounts her early childhood with a loving family and some happy years at a rehabilitation center, then virtual incarceration at the notorious Belchertown State School in Massachusetts.
After sixteen years she was released, to enjoy a life of purpose and personal triumph.
I Raise My Eyes To Say Yes will permanently alter the reader's perception of the severely disabled. But it also expresses larger truths, and demonstrate the extraordinary power of love, thought, and the human spirit.
http://www.iraisemyeyes.com/
"An extraordinary look at being severely disabled in a society that is ill-prepared to cope with the handicapped."
~ NY Times Book Review
"A remarkable collaboration...both sad and triumphant."
~ People Magazine
"The wrenching story of one woman's struggle against silence." ~Newsday