Tongue Operated Assistive Technologies

Assistive technologies help improving the quality of life for severely disabled individuals by enabling them to pursue self-care, educational, vocational, and recreational activities. Tongue has a set of unique characteristics that makes it a suitable appendage for manipulating paralyzed individuals' environments through the use of tongue-operated assistive devices. A number of these devices have been reviewed and a new one, called Tongue Drive, has been introduced.

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