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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 Adecco Foundation and Inclusive Employment
The Adecco Foundation, a not-for-profit organization founded in 1999 by The Adecco Group in Spain, works towards the inclusion of people with disabilities in the workforce and in their communities. The Foundation trains people with disabilities and helps them to … Continue reading
Ceapat – A Reference Center that Promotes Personal Autonomy for People with Disabilities
The State Reference Center for Personal Autonomy and Technical Assistance (Ceapat, acronym in Spanish) (in Spanish) was founded in April 1989 in Spain to offer quality social services to people in various situations, including people with disabilities, and their families. … Continue reading
Accessibility in Spain: The Accessibility Observatory
The Accessibility Observatory (in Spanish) in Spain, a project of the Accessibility Unit of COCEMFE (in Spanish), highlights the importance of accessibility and the use of support products that are essential to improve the quality of life of people with … Continue reading
Posted in Organization
Tagged accesible tourism, accessibility, Accessibility Observatory of Spain, accessible leisure, aging, assistive technology, Disabilities, disability, independent living, Observatorio de la Accesibilidad, people with disabilities, quality of life, support, universal design
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Answered Questions: Monthly News for the Disability Community for October 2019
Answered Questions is a monthly resource for the Spanish language Disability Community that fills an information need. This month’s question is: My friends and I are aging with and into disabilities. For example, some of us have arthritis that makes … Continue reading
Posted in Respuestas a las Preguntas
Tagged active aging, aging, aging in place, aging into disabilities, aging with disabilities, assistance robots, assistive technology, AT, down syndrome, education, FAQ, housing, NARIC, Research In Focus, Resources, social wellbeing, strategies, technology, universal design, wellbeing
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Research in Brief: Technology Terms
In 2016 we began the Research In Focus series, highlighting new and interesting findings from NIDILRR-funded studies, presented in a reader-friendly format. As a follow up, we offer our occasional series Research In Brief, where we break down some of … Continue reading
Posted in Research In Brief
Tagged assistive technology, AT, universal design, user experience, UX
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ADA: Celebrate 26 Years on the 26th! (Part 2)
July 26th marks the 26th anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the historic civil rights law that prohibits discrimination and ensures equal opportunity for persons with disabilities in employment, state and local government services, public … Continue reading
Posted in Event, Project, Publications, Right Resources Right Now, Uncategorized
Tagged #ADA26, ADA 26 anniversary, ADA. Americans with Disabilities Act, architecture, Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute, Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access, Cloud Computing, continuing education, Disability and Rehabilitation Research Project on Inclusive Cloud and Web Computing, disability civil rights movement, Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII), inclusive design, legislation, NIDILRR Projects, NIDILRR Research, online courses, physical accessibility, Publications, Raising the Floor coalition, RERC for Wireless Techologies, RERC on Physical Access and Transportation (RERC-APT), RERC on Universal Interface and Information Technology Access, RERC Universal Design and the Built Environmentthe Built, RL Mace Universal Design Institute, Ronald L. Mace, technology access, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Tiramisu, Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Trace Center, transportation, UD and Public Accommodations, UniveralDesign.com, universal design, universal interfaces, virtual accessibility, visitability, web systems, Wireless RERC, wireless technologies
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Answered Questions January 2015: 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 adapted swimming, assistive technology, benefits of recreation, children with diabetes, chronic illnesses, developmental disabilities, Disabilities, disability, education, exercise physiology, families, funlibre, GoBabyGo, interactive exercise technologies, kid-friendly exoskeletons, leisure, mobility disabilities, modified racecars, motor disabilities, nchpad, NIDRR, NIDRR projects, NIDRR research, people with disabilities, physical activity, physical disabilities, racecars, rec therapy, rec tx, recreation, recreation technology, recreation therapy, Recreational therapy, RecTech, Spanish, sports, swimming, therapeutic recreation, Therapeutic Recreation Society of Puerto Rico, universal design, University of Delaware
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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, April 28 – Friday, May 2
Human Interest: Soldier who lost leg in Afghanistan vowed ‘I will return.’ This is what it took to get back. (The Washington Post) Following a leg injury sustained by a roadside bomb that resulted in amputation, a US Army soldier … Continue reading
Posted in Weekly News Roundup
Tagged accessible housing, amputation, assisted living, behavior modification device, caregivers, cochlear implant, crowdfunding, disability employment, fda, Food and Drug Administration, group home, hearing impairment, homelessness, injured veterans, knee arthritis, laughter, leg amputation, leg prosthesis, medicaid, Medicaid funding, memory improvement activity, National Park Service, osteoarthritis, prosthetic, service animals, service dogs, shock devices, supported living, TBI, traumatic brain injury, unemployment, universal design, walker, walking disability, walking impairment
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Collection Spotlight from the National Rehabilitation Information Center 