Solving problems of inclusion and equalityToday’s guest post is from Nicole Caron, talking about a somewhat underreported part of communication disability – that of taking the ‘un’ about of ‘unintelligible’. If you like what you read I strongly recommend you visit their crowdfunding page… Nicole was very patient with me on the back and forth of this guest post… “No, […]
You 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 […]
A real honour to benefit from Joe’s Brilliant Flowers for Turing idea last month, and huge and sincere thanks to Joe and everyone who donated.
The money you raised will go directly towards helping people with physical disabilities experience a better quality of life through activities like video games. It’s work that involves a range of approaches, including modifying or creating gaming setups that we can loan and support. As there’s no one-size-fits-all way of doing this, we visit people across the UK to find out exactly what they want to play, what they need to play it, and then put together setups around their individual abilities.
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 […]
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.
Duncan McMillan of the Royal Society of Chemistry talks about how they reaching out to make sure that their content was accessible to everybody.
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 […]
When I was in Vienna some time ago, a good friend of mine showed me Updownvienna.com. This is a web page where you can see at a glance which lifts of Vienna’s tube system are out of service. I was hooked. I wanted to have something like that for London. I am a wheelchair […]