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Tag Archives: communication
A Survival Guide for New Deafies
For those of you who have late onset deafness and for those who are interesteed in learning more about it, here’s a good book you should read. A Survival Guide for New Deafies, written by Amy Sargent, who lost her hearing at age 27. Here’s a more detailed description of the book and the opporttunity [...]
Kindle Accessory for People with Mobility Impairments
I wrote a post on BlogKindle about a cool new assistive device that allows people with paralysis or other muscle disorders use the Kindle. The accessory was created by Origin Instruments, the creator of Proloquo2Go, a communication aid for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. I’m not going to rewrite the post on here, but [...]
Assistive Technology
Also tagged iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindle, mobility, origin instruments, PageBot, Proloquo2Go
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Verbally: an Awesome Free App for the iPad
After learning about all of these cool new apps for the iPad that can assist people with disabilities, it makes me really want one just so I can try them out. Verbally is a communication aid created by Intuary for people with cerbral palsy, traumatic brain injury, ALS and other speech inhibiting condition. This is [...]
Assistive Technology, Disability
Also tagged ALS, app, Cerebral Palsy, Intuary, iPad, mobility, traumatic brain injury, verbally
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iPad and Other Tablets Used as a Learning Tool for People with Disabilities.
As I was searching through the Assistive Technology news, I came across a great article in Education Week called iPads Become Learning Tools for Students with Disabilities. This article talks about how a young girl with Down’s Syndrome and speech impairments can communicate via the iPad with her peers. The iPad has given her self [...]
