Solving problems of inclusion and equalityYou may have noticed the S’up Spoon getting a certain amount of media attention in the last week or so. It’s a Kickstarter project about assistive technology, and immediately interested me. Eating is one of those things that should have long ago been solved for people with mobility issues and yet it hasn’t – so […]
Interview time! We got some nice feedback about the interview we did with the with EPSRC Assistive Sandpit organiser Anna Angus-Smyth – it turns out that my PhD and postdoc readers quite enjoy finding out what makes funders tick. So today we have an interview with Paul Woodgate from the Wellcome Trust- who I’m interviewing […]
Interview time! Liat Ben-Moshe is Assistant Professor of Disability Studies at the University of Toledo. She holds a PhD in Sociology with concentrations in Gender Studies and Disability Studies from Syracuse University. Her recent work examines the connections between prison abolition and deinstitutionalization in the fields of intellectual disabilities and mental health in the […]
Interview time! I’ve been hearing a lot about the EPSRC Assistive, Adaptive and Rehabilitative Technologies Sandpit – a research event that is attempting to get rising stars of assistive technology all into the same place for a week in September to see what ideas spring up. More than one of you mailed in to tell […]
Today’s guest post is from Fiona Jarvis, who established Blue Badge Style in 2007. I’ve been an admirer of BBS’s blog for some time – they do a very good line in showcasing beautiful assistive design, and I encourage everyone to take a look, but it’s definitely not BBS’s main focus. I’ll let Fiona herself take you through that…
Claudia Romero runs the startup company CAPR Style, which produces specially modified clothing for children with additional needs. She has been kind enough to tell us her story in this guest post.
Following on from interviews we did recently with Paraclimbing World Champion Fran Brown, disability sex champion Tuppy Owens, and especially, AssistiveWare CEO, David Niemeijer, we now present Ian Thompson, Managing Director of Liberator. Liberator have long been a stalwart of the AAC world. According to their website they produce communication aids that: “support a wide […]
Following on from the interview we did recently with Paraclimbing World Champion Fran Brown, and then David Niemeijer, Founder and CEO of AssistiveWare, we have a special one today…. Tuppy Owens is a qualified sex therapist and the founder of Outsiders, which supports disabled people to find partners. She also runs the Sex and Disability […]
Today’s guest post is from Masuma Rahim, on her clinical placement in learning disability. I invited Masuma’s post for a few reasons – not just because she writes very well but also because she has some very interesting things to say about how the beutacratic scaffording of the public sector holds, or not, communities together. […]
Following on from the interview we did recently with Paraclimbing World Champion Fran Brown, which was very well received, we interview David Niemeijer, who is the Founder and CEO of AssistiveWare, makers of the famous Proloquo2Go. AssistiveWare were very much at the vanguard of the tablet revolution in AAC that I keep banging on about, and they […]