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A permanent FCC program (since 2017) giving low-income deafblind Americans free specialised communications equipment plus in-home training, delivered through 56 certified state …
SLIIT researchers built Pubudu, a deep-learning mobile app screening Sri Lankan children aged 6-7 for dyslexia, dysgraphia and dyscalculia in local languages. …
A Trinity College Dublin spin-out's AI tablet game screened over 25,000 pre-literate children across six countries in 2023-24 for dyslexia and phonemic-awareness …
A €4m Friuli Venezia Giulia project deploys AI speech-to-text captioning for deaf/hard-of-hearing students. A 2025 peer-reviewed SWOT/TOWS analysis of stakeholders found real …
AI service embedded in learning management systems that auto-generates accessible alternative formats (audio, ePub, HTML, Braille-ready) for all course materials; 2,000+ institutions …
Sightsavers Nigeria's SABI-Woman project trained 2,878 women/girls with disabilities in Kano and Lagos, gave 670 women startup capital (88% repaid), and trained …
Seoul-based Dot Incorporation built the first commercialised electromagnetic tactile display, letting blind and low-vision users feel braille text and graphics refreshed in …
Livox, an AI-adaptive augmentative-communication app built by a father for his daughter with cerebral palsy, was formally adopted into Recife's public schools …
INSENSION is an online platform that allows individuals with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PIMD) to use digital applications and services. The …
The DE-ENIGMA project is developing artificial intelligence for a commercial robot (Robokind’s Zeno). The robot will be used for an emotion-recognition and …
Founded after winning a World Bank prize, Ethiopia's Yegenew cooperative built shower and laundry facilities across Addis Ababa staffed entirely by people …
A free AI/AR app that translates children's storybooks into sign language via an animated avatar, letting Deaf children and hearing parents read …
Be My Eyes, founded in Copenhagen in 2015, connects blind and low-vision users with sighted volunteers and, since 2023, AI image description …
The main aim of Online Today! was around encouraging and supporting people with sensory loss to understand and better use technology and …
OLE Nepal's 'intelligent OCR' (iOCR) converts scanned Nepali/English documents into screen-reader-compatible e-books, filling a gap in Nepali-script OCR. Built with KDDI Foundation …
Maceió-based Hand Talk's AI avatar Hugo translates Portuguese into Brazilian Sign Language and has been downloaded over 2 million times, citing 3 …
An EU Horizon 2020 project at Cyprus University of Technology built a generative-AI app that signs classroom lectures via a personal avatar, …
Grammatek's neural Icelandic text-to-speech technology now narrates textbooks for Hljóðbókasafn Íslands, the national library serving dyslexic and print-disabled students, after a 2022 …
A free web tool built by Cambodia's CADT/IDRI with the National Institute for Special Education and Krousa Thmey Foundation machine-translates Khmer text …
Verbit's AI captioning, used at the University of Arizona and elsewhere, supports US universities' ADA compliance. A national study of 2,000 students …
Lexplore, a Karolinska Institutet spin-off, uses AI eye-tracking to flag dyslexia risk in ~5 minutes, screening ~8,000 children since 2016. A 2026 …
A Czech-funded resource centre at Ion Luca Caragiale High School in Orhei uses AI-powered scanning pens, tablets and interactive boards to support …
Since 1999, Bengaluru NGO Enable India has trained blind, visually impaired and other people with disabilities in assistive technology and digital skills, …
Given the physiological and cognitive degeneration associated with ageing, it is important to promote initiatives that prevent situations that may increase dementia …
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