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Kensington Expert Mouse
 

Relevant Disability: Low Mobility, Manual Dexterity

Mouse Alternative
  • The expert mouse is great for those with limited movement or lack of fine movement in their hands.
     
  • Large ball with precise tracking.
     
  • Able to be used for both right and left handed users.
     
  • Customized buttons provide single-click options.

 
Photo: Expert Mouse

Penny and Giles Joystick
 

Relevant Disability: Low Mobility, Manual Dexterity

Mouse Alternative
  • Mouse Alternative for people who have difficulties with a standard mouse.
     
  • Is good for developing good hand-eye coordination.
     
  • Offers more control than a traditional mouse.
     
  • Users have separate buttons for mouse clicks and drags.

 
Photo: Penny and Giles Joystick

Kidsball
 

Relevant Disability: Low Mobility, Manual Dexterity

Mouse Alternative
 
  • Large yellow ball is helpful where fine motor skills are absent.
     
  • Large ball does not require finger control.
     
  • Has a left and right mouse click button to avoid unwanted mouse clicks.

 

 
Photo: Kidsball

Cirque Cruise Cat
 

Relevant Disability: Manual Dexterity, Mobility Impairment

Mouse Alternative

  • Easy to use.
     
  • Requires only finger movement to navigate around the screen.
     
  • One touch surfing, scrolling and zooming.
     
  • Can be held in your hand.
 

 
Photo: Cirque Power Cat

Tash WinKing Keyboard
 

Relevant Disability: Manual Dexterity, Mobility Impairment, Learning Difficulties
  • Large expanded keyboard is useful for gross motor skills.
     
  • This keyboard allows you to control both keyboard and mouse functions (great for people who have difficulty in maneuvering a traditional mouse).
     
  • All mouse directions, right and left click, double click and drag functions are performed by pressing directly on keyboard keys while in Mouse Mode.
     
  • Keys may be activated by mouth, stick, head pointer or finger.

 

 
Photo: Tash WinKing Keyboard

Truform ergonomic keyboard
 

Relevant Disability: Manual Dexterity, Mobility Impairment

Truform alleviates fatigue and stress with a sloped keyboard curve that naturally positions your hands, wrists, and shoulders in a more comfortable and natural position.
  • Contoured design allows hands and forearms to rest at a natural angle.
     
  • Split-key design moves elbows gently away from body to ease stress in neck and shoulders.
     
  • Full-length wrist support extends under cursor and numeric keypads.

 
Photo: Truform ergonomic keyboard

Big Keys LX
 

Relevant Disability: Manual Dexterity, Mobility Impairment, Low Vision
  • This uniquely designed keyboard has 1" square keys, with letters 10 times larger than standard making them easy to see, find, read, and press.
     
  • Feature "no run-on keys" which means that only a single character will be generated regardless of how long the keys are held down.
     
  • A distinct click helps the user to recognize when a key has been pressed.

 

IntelliKeys Keyboard
 

Relevant Disability: Fine Motor Difficulties, Vision Impairments, Learning Disabilities

Intellikeys is a programmable alternative keyboard that enables people with physical, visual, or cognitive disabilities to easily type, enter numbers, navigate on-screen displays and execute menu commands. 

  • An expanded keyboard with a programmable surface.
     
  • Can be used with standard overlays or custom overlays.
 
Photo: IntelliKeys keyboard
Magic Touch Touchscreen

Relevant Disability: Manual Dexterity

This external add-on touchscreen kit is a user-friendly input device.  Magic Touch can help anyone to start learning how to use a computer without the difficulty of using a mouse.

The point and click software is instantly accessible simply by touching the thing that would normally require moving and understanding a mouse and a pointer.

  • Pressure-sensitive activation - by finger or stylus (pen).
     
  • Touch screen and mouse can be used together.

 

 

Contour RollerMouse™

Relevant Disability:   Mobility Impairment
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:  RSI - Repetitive  Strain Injury, Carpel tunnel 

  • The RollerMouse™ is an alternative pointing device.
     
  • It is a pointing device that is built into a wrist rest, this is attached to a two-piece plastic tray that holds your keyboard. Sits directly below the spacebar on the keyboard.
     
  • The RollerMouse™ has 3 buttons:  the left for standard single click; the middle for double clicking; the right for selecting menus.  Also has a scroll wheel.

 

 

 
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