Assistive Tech Tuesday

Throughout the year, most awareness months and days are on a national scale. The U.N. International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) is different. IDPD is a global effort to raise [...]

    Not all assistive technology is high-tech. In fact, the objectives of assistive technology are accessibility and inclusion, to enable individuals with disabilities to perform tasks [...]

  Indeed, the iPhone and iPad have many excellent features that endear them to users worldwide. However, one disadvantage to these Apple products is that one cannot control either one with a [...]

  Trauma to the brain can have life-long effects. The Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA) defines Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) as “an alteration in brain function, or other evidence [...]

  Many times, workers with disabilities are “the right talent, right now.” However, hiring these workers is not only the right thing to do, but also, in the words of Sen. Ted Kennedy Jr., [...]

  Assistive Technology. Many people who read those words think of technology, high technology. Indeed, most of what is in our Technology Lending Center is indeed high-tech. AT, however, can [...]

  There’s no doubt that hearing aids are a wonderful invention. However, at times background clamor, the distance to the sound source, or echo effects can pose a challenge to understanding [...]

Assistive technology makes everyday tasks accessible to persons with a disability. Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) enables people who cannot express their thoughts or needs [...]

  “In these days, we are talking about flying cars, but [blind] people have been using just a plain stick,” says Kursat Ceylan, a visually impaired engineer from Turkey and founder of the [...]

  Two weeks ago, we featured LEGO’s ingenious adaptation of their blocks to teach braille. (This was part of an earlier blog piece of our Assistive Tech Tuesday series.) Well, LEGO has [...]