The aim of this article is to show the opportunities which new technologies offer in overcoming communication barriers in regards to people experiencing multiple disabilities. The solutions that new technologies bring can constitute one of the forms of resistance to the dominant model of perceiving disability and thus provide space for a particular resistance to the practices of discrimination and exclusion from the society of people experiencing disability, therefore entering into the emancipatory stream. Including the emancipation category into the emerging process of new technology allows us to create a broader theoretical context through which we can give it a new meaning - another dimension, i.e.: new technologies - emancipation ones: adopting such a vision gives new technology a technical dimension. By instilling the proposed position in the field of special education, we can contribute to the exploration of the potential that exists in every human-being regardless of the type or degree of specific disability.
Abstract:The main objective we pretend to reach is to obtain a conclusive final definition and the characterisation of new technology-based firm (NTBF). This quest for an integrative and commonly recognised profile gains even more force when focused on its application within the field of social and economic empirical studies. Within the social and economic empirical research, the formulation of the definition and full profile becomes highly relevant, because we cannot gather data without previous identifying and conceptualising the object of the research. That is, as the own proximity to the data access impregnates and clarifies the proper definition, at some NTBF studies. This paper debates existing approaches as well as defines the key factors needed to delimitate the definition and the parameters of the NTBF.
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