By Nubyaan Scott, Program Coordinator 1. BARD Mobile The BARD Mobile app offers access to Braille and audio books from the National Library Service (NLS) Braille and Audio Reading Download (BARD). BARD includes almost 50,000 books, magazines, and music scores in audio and Braille formats; and new choices are added daily. If you connect…
by Kirk Aranada, YO! Disabled and Proud Youth Advocate It’s that time of the year again, the events that kick-start the holiday shopping season: Black Friday and Cyber Monday. ‘Tis the season to start your holiday shopping! iPad Mini, Kindle, & Nook TVs and computers are not the only things on sale this week. There…
The AT Network collaborates with many other disability-related groups to make sure that people get their hands on accessible technology; YO! (Youth Organizing) Disabled and Proud is one of those groups. YO! connects, organizes and educates youth with disabilities. One of the ways in which YO! does this is by helping youth develop leadership and…
We are excited to announce the launch of our new Keep the Wheels Rolling Repair Fund (KWRF), sponsored by Clearinghouse CDFI and Batteries Plus. Keep the Wheels Rolling Repair Fund is designed to provide small grants of up to $300 for the purchase of parts and/or repairs needed to refurbish a wheelchair or scooter so…
by Kirk Aranada, YO! Disabled and Proud Youth Advocate It’s fall again, and it’s during this time of the year that lots of people start watching and playing team sports again. There are many, many different sports and sport activities that individuals with disabilities can participate in and oftentimes that means searching for some helpful…
There have been many pictures floating around on the internet of creative costume ideas for people that use wheelchairs. Here are a couple of websites that have some great compilations of Halloween costumes: 20 Creative Costume Ideas for People In Wheelchairs Halloween Costumes for Kids in Wheelchairs These costumes are fun to look at…
Whether you call it your butt, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buttocks, cheeks, derrière, fanny, gluteus maximus, haunches, heinie, hindquarters, keister, posterior, rear, ass, rump, seat, or tush… one thing is for sure—you gotta keep it clean! There are many reasons why a person may have difficulty in Installed Toto Washlet keeping their tush clean independently.…
California Emerging Technology Fund invests $260,000 in California Foundation for Independent Living Centers to provide discount home Internet, Digital Literacy training and low-cost computers San Francisco and Sacramento– October 15, 2013 – The California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF) and California Foundation for Independent Living Centers (CFILC) today are launching a new statewide partnership to connect…
by Rachel Anderson Happy Disability History Week! To celebrate this week, we will be highlighting the history of a few different AT devices. No one knows exactly when the first wheelchair was invented, however its origins date back to ancient times. The earliest records of a wheeled transportation device were found in a stone carving…
by Rachel Anderson Happy Disability History Week! To celebrate this week, we will be highlighting the history of a few different AT devices. Many of you may be familiar with Ray Kurzweil’s reading and writing software, but do you know how and when it was first developed? Ray Kurzweil & the Revolutionary Reading Machine…