Assistive Technology: Personalized for Impact

Researchers in the U.S. Pacific Northwest recently delivered a piece of assistive technology whose design began with a simple but important question: What will the person using this tech need?

Last month a team of engineers and occupational therapists from Whitworth University in Spokane, Wash. delivered a learning station they’d designed for a first grader with cerebral palsy.

David Schipf, assistant professor of engineering and physics at Whitworth, says the project’s success was due to the…