By Christina Mills, Executive Director California Foundation for Independent Living Centers Our backyard has become a sanctuary for our family during the warm Spring/Summer months. It’s our family’s favorite place to host guests for celebrations and perfect for impromptu picnics with our daughter. The diversity of plants, trees and the spacious layout of our backyard…
Here at the AT Network, we love seeing what other AT-focused organizations are doing. We also like to keep up with AT news around the nation and the world. Here are some other blogs and interesting articles related to assistive technology that we have found on the internet. Feel free to tell us about another…
If you have never checked out the AT Network’s AT Exchange website, or if you haven’t looked at it in awhile, now is the time to do so! We have many new and exciting items for loan, for sale and some items that centers are giving away for free. You might just find the AT…
By Christina Mills, CFILC’s Deputy Director There are several different types of baby carriers on the market. Fortunately, they come in all different shapes and sizes. In my opinion, some are relatively easy to take on and off while others are more complicated and take some practice in tying, wrapping around or buckling independently. My…
by Shannon Coe, Program Coordinator One of my favorite activities with my 5 month-old baby is bath time. This bonding activity would not have been possible if my husband had not built a wheelchair accessible bathing station in our bathroom. Before our daughter was born, we researched different types of tubs for babies. However,…
by Kirk Aranda, Youth Advocate In honor of National Volunteer Week which took place last week (April 21-27) across the country, we wanted to highlight some of our Youth Organizing! (YO!) Volunteers and the different assistive technology devices that they use. The AT that is used varies greatly which just goes to show that Many…
If you have never checked out any TED talks before… now is the time to start. I promise you that you will be hooked! TED‘s mission statement begins: We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we’re building here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge…
If you are in California and haven’t heard of the California Telephone Access Program, you could be missing out on a free and specialized landline phone. Funded by the small surcharge on every phone bill in CA, CTAP provides free phones for people who live in California, have telephone service, and are deaf or hard…
The following excerpt was adapted from FWD/Forward (Feminists with Disabilities) For a Way Forward: ( http://disabledfeminists.com/2010/03/31/happy-cesar-chavez-day/ ) In California, Cesar Chavez day is an official holiday to celebrate the life and work of Cesar Chavez. Chavez worked to promote and enforce the civil rights of farm workers and, with Dolores Huerta, was co-founder of the…
By Christina Mills, Deputy Director of CFILC Function and style don’t always go together. I used to think it was sort of funny that stores carried so many different baby swings and highchairs. I mean, besides the color and theme, who cares…right? I was completely oblivious to all the bells and whistles that each swing…