PDA Occupational Therapy Programs

With a PDA, occupational therapy has hundreds of new electronic tools to use when trying to rehabilitate someone who's been injured. Whether your injury is physical, mental, or deals with your senses, you can find a program to help you on a handheld computer.

For instance, if you have suffered an eye injury, have a disorder of the eye, or you are losing your vision, you can use a handheld computer's voice recognition technology to input data, instead of using your hands and eyes. The computer can read your words back to you for correction. Your computer can also read aloud books, magazines, email, and anything else you have in a digital text format, and have it read to you in a voice chosen from a library of different voices and accents. It can also translate materials read to you, though the translations sometimes leave a bit to be desired.

If you've suffered injuries to your hands, you can use the same technology to input your documents and emails. If you have one completely or mostly useable hand, you also have the option of using a chord-style keyboard, meaning a one-handed keyboard that's used by pressing keys in combination instead of one key at a time. You can also find projection style keyboards that work by tracking the movement of your fingers, in setups for standard and chord keyboards.

Other injuries or disabilities that cause problems mental processing and learning disabilities can be improved with PDA software designed to rehabilitate injuries. If you have one of these sorts of problems, you should ask your therapist about appropriate programs to assist you. The best thing about installing these programs on your handheld computer is that you can take them everywhere with you.