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2 results found tagged intellectual disability.
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Robots and Disability: What 36 Accessibility Studies Tell Us
A survey of 36 peer-reviewed accessibility research papers on robotics and disability — spanning the full CaBot / AI Suitcase navigation programme from Chieko Asakawa and colleagues, physical collaboration for blind users, gaze-controlled manipulation, feeding robots, telepresence in classrooms and museums, socially assistive robots (SARs) for older adults, adults with intellectual disabilities, AAC users, and perinatal depression screening, neurodivergent design with robot dogs and swarm robots, BMI-controlled performance, dynamic tactile graphics, a tabletop humanoid that teaches posture to blind learners, and Jang et al.'s theoretical reframing from autonomy to relational sovereignty.
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Neurodivergence and Digital Accessibility: What Researchers Are Finding
Recent accessibility scholarship is investigating ADHD, autism, and neurodiversity with a breadth and critical depth that challenges how the field thinks about disability itself. This article examines what researchers have found across 88 papers — from biased measurement instruments and the failures of AI career chatbots to how ADHD students build collaborative access through body doubling and how autistic livestreamers find social connection through asymmetric platform dynamics.