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Health Technology Case Study Twenty-six: Assistive Devices for Severe Speech Impairments (open access)

Health Technology Case Study Twenty-six: Assistive Devices for Severe Speech Impairments

A case study by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that is "about the revolution in communication aids that has since changed the outlook for this population [nonspeaking population], its accomplishments to date, its promise for the future, and its problems" (p. 3).
Date: December 1983
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health Technology Case Twenty-five: Technology and Learning Disabilities (open access)

Health Technology Case Twenty-five: Technology and Learning Disabilities

A case study by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that examines different types of technologies that are relevant to learning disabilities.
Date: December 1983
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
OTA Senior Management Retreat, 1983 (open access)

OTA Senior Management Retreat, 1983

Materials from an OTA Senior Management Retreat including memoranda, summaries, and discussion points for previous or upcoming studies and programs.
Date: December 4, 1983
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
SALYUT: Soviet Steps Toward Permanent Human Presence in Space (open access)

SALYUT: Soviet Steps Toward Permanent Human Presence in Space

A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), which "has undertaken a study of the presence of Soviets in space and their Salyut space stations, in order to provide Congress with an informed view of Soviet capabilities and intentions" (p. iii).
Date: December 1983
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Passenger Rail Technologies (open access)

U.S. Passenger Rail Technologies

An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that examines "the prospects of magnetic levitation (maglev) technologies - ultra-high-speed ground transportation that relies on magnetic suspension instead of conventional steel wheels on rail - and the status of railcar manufacturing industries" (p. ix).
Date: December 1983
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library