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Tag Archives: communication
What is robotics and how can it help or support people with disabilities?
According to the Britannica Encyclopedia, robotics is the “design, construction, and use of machines (robots) to perform tasks done traditionally by human beings.” Robots may be used in such industries as automobile manufacture to perform simple repetitive tasks, and in … Continue reading
Answered Questions: Monthly News for the Disability Community for September 2020 on Rehabilitation Engineering
Answered Questions is a monthly resource for the Spanish language Disability Community that fills an information need. This month’s question is: I am a new rehabilitation services provider and would like to learn more about how rehabilitation engineering research helps … Continue reading
Posted in Respuestas a las Preguntas
Tagged AAC, augmentative and alternative communication, built environment, communication, education, employment, exercise, NIDILRR, NIDILRR funded projects, NIDILRR Research, recreation, rehabilitation engineering, rehabilitation engineering research, Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers, RERCs, Survey of User Needs (SUN), technology, universal design, wireless inclusive technologies
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The Paralympic Torch Has Arrived in Rio: How Social Media Keeps the Torch Burning Strong
The Paralympics may start tomorrow, but the Paralympic Flame is already burning! The torch relay began on September 1st and the torch itself visited five cities in Brazil before arriving in Rio de Janeiro. Before departing the starting point, the … Continue reading
The Better Living Toolkit: A new resource from the Arthritis Foundation
May is Arthritis Awareness Month. The Arthritis Foundation has introduced a new resource, the Better Living Toolkit that allows individual’s to understand their arthritic disease and develop a treatment plan unique to their individual needs with the goal to live … Continue reading
Posted in Guide, Organization, Publications, Uncategorized, Website
Tagged #SeeArthritis, activities of daily living, Arthritis, Arthritis Awareness Month, Arthritis Foundation, Better Living Toolkit, chronic pain, communication, emotional health, functional status, goal setting, goals, health professionals, health tracker, May is Arthritis Awareness Month, medication management, pain management, Psoriatic Arthritis, quality of life, RAPID-3©, REHABDATA, Rheumatoid Arthritis, sleep, SMART goals, specialists, tips, toolkit, What is Arthritis?
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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, August 10 – Friday, August 14
Aquí puede leer este artículo en español. Accessibility: Disabled Luke Kenshole was ‘kicked off’ flight to US because he was in a wheelchair (Western Daily Press – UK) A British airline passenger says he was removed from a flight to … Continue reading
Posted in Weekly News Roundup
Tagged airline cabin accessibility, Alzheimer's Disease, children with diabetes, communication, deaf and hard of hearing, depression, diabetes care plan, diabetic wound care, ExoAtlet exoskeleton, marker for schizophrenia, nano dressing, paralysis, parents of children with diabetes, Parkinson's Disease, schizophrenia, sleeping position and neurological disorders, Socratic questioning in cognitive therapy, spinal cord injury, students with diabetes, travel with wheelchair, wound healing in diabetes
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Answered Questions: Monthly News for the Disability Community
Answered Questions is a monthly resource for the Spanish language Disability Community that fills an information need. Each month, we look through the searches on our blog and through the information requests made by our patrons who speak Spanish and … Continue reading
Posted in Publications, Respuestas a las Preguntas
Tagged African American Children, African American youth, ASL, blindness, children, children with visual disabilities, communication, cultural competency, Disabilities, disability, education, employment, english, families, family, health, health and wellness, Hispanics, interventions, Latino Children, Latino youth, Latinos, minorities, NARIC, NIDRR, NIDRR research, obesity, people with disabilities, psychiatric disabilities, rehabilitation, rehabilitation readiness tool, Spanish, Trilingual, visual disabilities, visual impairments, vocational rehabilitation, VR, wellness, youth
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Miss All American Standout
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder but beauty in its truest sense just cannot be denied. 18-year-old Alexis Wineman, the reigning Miss Montana, always knew there was something about her that wasn’t the norm. At age 11 she … Continue reading
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Tagged alexis, america, autism, beauty, butterworth, communication, communication disabilities, communication disorders, congenial, contest, disorders, living with disabilities, macy's, miss america, miss montana, montana, neurological disorders, owusu, pageant, parade, teddowusu, teddy, wineman
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What is Aphasia?
June 2012 has been proclaimed by the US Congress to be Aphasia Awareness Month. Bearing that in mind, we wanted to share some facts and information about aphasia: What is aphasia? Aphasia is a communication disorder that is acquired and … Continue reading
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Tagged aphasia, Aphasia Awareness Month, Broca's aphasia, communication, communication disabilities, Disabilities, NIDRR
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Webcast: Knowledge Translation in Augmentative and Alternative Communication: A Randomized Controlled Study
Join the Center for Knowledge Translation for Technology Transfer for a 60-minute webcast on September 22. This webcast will present methods and results of a randomized controlled study that evaluated a knowledge translation (KT) strategy designed to communicate effectively new … Continue reading
Collection Spotlight from the National Rehabilitation Information Center 