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Navigation Tools such as assistive technology are used by people with vision impairment to navigate their surroundings effectively. These tools combine the use of canes, guide dogs, sound, smell, touch, GPS, and apps on the mobile phones. So […]
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What is an effective hearing environment? People, as they age, can and do lose their hearing. It can be complete hearing loss or partial hearing loss. The affects of hearing loss can be quite profound and affect not
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PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System), an assistive technology tool, is an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) system often used with individuals who have autism spectrum disorder (ASD), nonverbal people or people with other communication challenges. It was developed
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What Is, NewsA special education teacher works with students who have a wide range of learning, mental, emotional, and physical disabilities. They adapt general education lessons and teach various subjects, such as reading, writing, and math, to students with mild
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Moving house can be hard. Finding the new home, financial stress, emotional stress, the impact on your physical health. The list of issues goes on and on. Now add disability. A person in a wheelchair, or a person
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Mark and I had only been dating for about 6 weeks, when I first asked him if he wanted to join me in travelling to the New Orleans Jazz Festival. Other than Mark, I had only had some
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This week’s theme is innovation that goes mainstream. In our podcast we talk to Kathleen Casford from ByNinja about a technology that is mainstream being used to make life easier for people with disability. Over the years there
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We never think about the way that we communicate. However, we communicate all the time, verbally, nonverbally and using written methods. So what makes up communication? Communication is a process made up of many different components. Depending on
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Disability employment services are programs and initiatives designed to support individuals with disabilities in finding and maintaining employment. These services often include job training, skill development, job placement assistance, workplace accommodations, and ongoing support to help individuals with
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We all know that Christopher Columbus and Captain James Cook along with many other explorers used astronomy, latitude and longitude to find their way around the world. What about Leichardt’s exploration of inland Australia. He also used those
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