Occupational Therapy and Assistive Technology - InfOT

Assistive Technology refers to any object that helps the person do something that they could not otherwise do. As occupational therapists, we can provide our clients with assistive technology, in order to help them leave independent lives.



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Video creator: Stavroula Drogkari, MScOT
Narrator: Filippos Farmakis, MSc in Translation

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