Enabled: Digital Technology, Disability and the Power to Live, Work & Belong by Dr Julie(Digital)
Enabled: Digital Technology, Disability and the Power to Live, Work & Belong by Dr Julie(Digital)
Enabled: Digital Technology, Disability and the Power to Live, Work and Belong
By Dr Julie Winstanley
Enabled is a practical, empowering exploration of how digital technology and AI can help people living with disability and chronic ill health create more choice, independence, connection, purpose and opportunity.
Rather than focusing only on limitation, this book asks a different question: what becomes possible when technology is designed around people’s real lives, abilities and needs?
Across ten accessible chapters, Dr Julie Winstanley explores how digital tools can support everyday life, health management, learning, creativity, work, business, social connection and participation in the wider world. It also looks honestly at the barriers that technology cannot solve alone, including inaccessible systems, discrimination, cost, poor design and digital exclusion.
Inside you’ll explore:
- how technology can act as a digital equaliser
- rebuilding purpose, meaning and hope after health changes
- reducing the hidden workload of managing long-term health
- practical digital tools for greater independence
- building work and business around your abilities
- overcoming social barriers and digital exclusion
- connection, community and belonging
- creating fairer access to education, work and opportunity
- digital safety, privacy, ethics and AI
- creating your own practical digital empowerment plan
Warm, realistic and strengths-based, Enabled does not suggest that technology can “fix” disability. Instead, it shows how the right tools, used in the right way, can reduce barriers and make space for people to live, work, create and contribute on their own terms.
Ideal for: people living with disability or chronic illness, carers, professionals, community organisations, employers, educators and anyone interested in digital inclusion and accessible technology.
Format: Digital PDF book
Published by: Living Well Books
Part of: Living Well by Dr Julie