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Tag Archives: severe disabilities
Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, August 31 – Friday, September 4
Aquí puede leer este artículo en español. Education: For students with learning disabilities, real life often is more satisfying than high school, study suggests (Seattle Times) For some students with learning disabilities, finding their niche in the real world is … Continue reading
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Tagged AAC device, adaptive sports, ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, ALS research funding, assistive robot for blind travelers, augmentative and alternative communication, Baxter robot, blood test for suicide ideation, dementia, Hooked on Music, Learning Disabilities, memory games and dementia, National Center for Learning Disabilities, noninvasive spinal stimulation for paralysis, robotic exoskeleton, severe disabilities, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair rugby
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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, July 27 – Friday, July 31
Aquí puede leer este artículo en español. Accessibility: What D.C. is doing to grow the number of wheelchair-accessible cabs (The Washington Post) By the end of 2018, taxicab companies in the District of Columbia are required to have at least … Continue reading
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Tagged autism, autism diagnosis, bionic handshape-memory alloy, brain computer interface, CAS, childhood apraxia of speech, consumers with disabilities, D.C.Taxicab Commission, facial motion capture, funding, hand gripping motion, IDEA, Integrum AB, nasal balloon inflation treatment, nickel-titanium wire, OME, OPRA prosthesis, otitis media with effusion, severe disabilities, United States Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, wheelchair accessible cabs, workers with disabilities
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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, July 6 – Friday, July 10
Aquí puede leer este artículo en español. Arts: How to make a musical for the Deaf (BuzzFeed) Deaf West, a premiere Deaf theater company based in Los Angeles, will be taking the musical Spring Awakening to Broadway this fall. In … Continue reading
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Tagged autism spectrum disorder, blood test for diabetes type 1, brain impairments, caregivers, Deaf West theater company, eye tracker, EyeControl, microRNA 375, neurorehabilitation, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, severe disabilities, shared brain-machine interface, sign language, smell test for autism, stroke, Tetris as therapeutic aid, type 1 diabetes, uric acid
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Digital Archive Project: New (old) Additions
We’re nearing the end of Phase II of our digital archive project. In this phase we’re digitizing and posting final reports from projects funded by NIDRR and its previous incarnations (NIHR, SRS, VRA). We’re deep in the 60s now, with … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, blind, cancer, children, deaf, developmental disabilities, digital archive, employment, epilepsy, evaluation tools, halfway house, heart disease, intelligence tests, literature review, low vision, orthotics, psychiatric disabilities, Rehabilitation counseling, severe disabilities
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Collection Spotlight from the National Rehabilitation Information Center 