Stanford students design assistive devices in course

Via YouTube:

Stanford lecturer David Jaffe's "Perspectives in Assistive Technology" class gives budding engineers hands-on experience with projects that help people with disabilities in the local community.

Students came up with several assistive devices after working directly with people with disabilities to find out what their needs were.



The four year old course is designed to provide engineering students with practical experience rather than come up with a product for the commercial market.

However, as students said in the video, they also learned that having a disability does not mean one has to be disabled.