Opportunities for disabled people through ICTs: a perspective from Turkey
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H. Filiz Alkan Meshur
Abstract
Information and communication technologies (ICTs), which have developed rapidly in recent years, have brought notable changes to human life. Additionally, the use of ICTs also has importance from the point of view of disabled people. Because of physical deficiencies, disabled people make more effort to access knowledge and services relative to healthy people. Also, they face some important constraints in urban spaces. The planning of urban spaces according to the requirements of disabled people is a necessity of being in a contemporary society. Furthermore, offering some opportunities for disabled people through ICTs should be considered. While healthy people do not have any limitations, disabled people face some important constraints in using these technologies. With this in mind, designing ICTs without considering disabled people will cause discrimination against them by society. In addition, e-learning and teleworking concepts, which have arisen together with ICTs, are an important perspective related to education and employment policies for disabled people. In this paper, the importance of considering the needs and problems of disabled people in accessing ICTs is emphasized, and also this paper aims to evaluate opportunities offered by new technologies for disabled people in Turkey. The uses of areas of ICTs seen as a tool in order to raise the quality of life of disabled people are evaluated, and the problems and opportunities are revealed. People with intellectual disabilities are not addressed within this study. Instead, it focuses on individuals with physical disabilities such as visual, hearing, and orthopedic impairment. Opportunities offered by ICTs for disabled people are evaluated. Also, recommendations are developed about the accessibility of disabled people to employment, education, health, and social and urban services in Turkey. Another aim of this paper is to create awareness for disabled people about the use of ICTs. Firstly, a literature review was done, and in addition to the print and electronic resources, suggestions and opinions were taken from public institutions and organizations. Furthermore, the needs and constraints of disabled people are explored for the use of ICTs by conducting in-depth interviews.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Birth defects and human development
- Original Articles
- Perceived parental differential treatment, cognition, behaviour and family cohesiveness among siblings of children with cerebral palsy? A family-mediated intervention to understand “displaced” children
- Alterations in body composition, capillary glucose and functionality during explosive strength training in older women
- People with multiple disabilities use assistive technology to perform complex activities at the appropriate time
- The relationship between family dining practices, parenting style and family functioning and child learning
- A procedure to correct the effect of heart rate on heart rate variability indices: description and assessment
- Psychological and emotional state of parents having intellectually and developmentally disabled children
- Predictors of quality of life in people with intellectual disability in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- The effect of erythropoietin on phosphorus levels during hypoxia reoxygenation injury in rats
- Opportunities for disabled people through ICTs: a perspective from Turkey
- A review of adolescent prevention and positive youth development programs in non-English speaking European countries
- Assessing learning gains of university students in Hong Kong adopting the Collegiate Learning Assessment Plus (CLA+)
- Student feedback on a subject on leadership and intrapersonal development for university students in Hong Kong
