Tele-Rehabilitation for People with Visual Disabilities During COVID-19 Pandemic: Lesson Learned

Senjam, Suraj Singh; Manna, Souvik; Vashist, Praveen; Gupta, Vivek

doi:10.1101/2020.12.31.20249111

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“…Moreover, many visually challenged people who came to Delhi for a new disability certificate or for renewal of the existing certificate, or vocational training, could not find a place to stay nor were they able to return to their home during the sudden emergency lockdown. There are a number of case studies, many that are unique according to the client's needs, which emerged from our Vision Rehabilitation Clinic (VRC) of Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi that have supported individuals with vision loss through the employment of PCA during the emergency lockdown (30).…”

Section: Case Studies Of Pca During the Pandemic Lockdownmentioning

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A Persons-Centered Approach for Prevention of COVID-19 Disease and Its Impacts in Persons With Disabilities

Senjam

2021

Front. Public Health

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The World Health Organization (WHO) considers COVID-19 a great threat to humanity and, thus, declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020. To limit its transmission, governments announced lockdowns in their respective nations, and recommended control measures, including behavior change. Persons with disabilities (PwDs) are among the population that may be at a higher risk of becoming infected and may suffer serious illness due to COVID-19. Additionally, lockdowns pose immense challenges and have tremendous impacts on PwDs in terms of receiving their daily support. To mitigate these challenges, their impact, and to reduce the risk of infection, it is important to design strategies that can improve the overall outcome for PwDs. This study therefore intends to provide a uniform strategy or guideline using the person-centered approach principles which is perhaps the most feasible and implementable approach to circumvent the challenges faced by PwDs during emergency lockdowns. Two case studies are used as examples. This pandemic also provides an opportunity for health care planners and policymakers in the health sector to implement reforms to ensure disability inclusiveness in potential future emergency lockdowns.

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Section: Case Studies Of Pca During the Pandemic Lockdownmentioning

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A Persons-Centered Approach for Prevention of COVID-19 Disease and Its Impacts in Persons With Disabilities

Senjam

2021

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Smartphones for Vision Rehabilitation: Accessible Features and Apps, Opportunity, Challenges, and Usability Evaluation

Senjam¹

2022

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In today’s world, digital technology and smartphones have become a part of our everyday lives. Smartphones are one of the most advance forms of digital technology that can be viewed as assistive technology for disabled, including for individual with a visual loss. However, they are often not considered as assistive technology for visual impairment and blind, especially in low middle-income countries. There have been a lot of development in the mobile technology that incorporates computer technology, including electronic information, communication technology as well as touch-screen accessibility. Such an advancement in smart technology of mobile devices leads to the transformation of the interface technique from visual smartphones interaction into a truly eyes-free means interaction by using other body senses, such as haptic, gesture, and sound, etc. These innovative accessible features and applications enhance the accessibility of smartphones significantly to individuals with visual impairment. There are many built-in accessible features and third-party accessible applications that enable to access many useful information and contents in the smartphones. Such aesthetic technology facilitates in performing daily activities, independent functioning, movement, social inclusion and participation, educational activities, accessing information of today’s digital society, sighted help, and finally helps to improve the quality of life. Therefore, these smart technologies make smartphones to serve as assistive technology for people with visual impairment and blindness. The smartphones are visually and physically demanding, and are ubiquitous any time and any place, and user can carry it at everywhere. They are universally design, so less social stigma to the users and less discomfort when using it. To view smartphones as assistive technology universally, healthcare providers, caregivers or rehabilitation professionals need to be informed, and make aware of the beneficial aspect of smartphones and its accessibility. Finally, engineers and developers are continuously fostering to develop more innovative and readily accessible apps for visual impairment. Since single app does not fit all purposes for visual impairment and blind, there is a potential need of developing clinical guidelines on the use of such accessible apps or features that will help to recommend appropriately for various types of functions.

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Tele-Rehabilitation for People with Visual Disabilities During COVID-19 Pandemic: Lesson Learned

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A Persons-Centered Approach for Prevention of COVID-19 Disease and Its Impacts in Persons With Disabilities

A Persons-Centered Approach for Prevention of COVID-19 Disease and Its Impacts in Persons With Disabilities

Smartphones for Vision Rehabilitation: Accessible Features and Apps, Opportunity, Challenges, and Usability Evaluation

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