Disability advocates call for easier access to life-changing technology
Tammy Martin has spent more than a decade helping young students with special needs learn to read a skill that she, too, would struggle with if not for a state-of-the-art device that allows her to clearly see the words on the page. The educational assistant from Truro, N.S., is one of the many Canadians with a disability requiring the use of life-changing, but often prohibitively priced, assistive technology that advocates say needs to be more accessible.
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Assistive devices can improve quality of life, but their high cost keeps them out of reach for many