Assistive Tech
The beaten path—the typical way of doing things—takes you from A to B to C until you arrive at D. So what if your situation prevents that B-to-C connection? Quit? No way, you just need a different path. Maybe from A to B, out to S, and back around to J before winding your way back to D. You are still getting where you need to go
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Bryan Anderson: Conquering Hollywood at iLevel
Bryan Anderson is used to being in front of a camera. So when he appeared in the Oscar-nominated film American Sniper last year, he had no reason to be nervous—even among professionals like Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller. Over the past several years, Anderson has come into his own as an actor, but there is much more…
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User-focused Assistive Technology Development
By John Riggins, InvoTek Inc. It was bad enough the car accident took away Charlie’s vocation as a personal trainer. Now it threatened to rob him of his dream of teaching Bible students. That is, until some new assistive technology came into his life. Assistive technology (AT) tends to be a catchall phrase for any…
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Product Spotlight: Sonus Hearing Care Professionals
An estimated 37 million people in the United States suffer from hearing loss. Let’s reflect on the enormity of that number—it’s about one out of every eight people. And of those, only one in four people who experience hearing loss actually seek treatment. When your hearing starts to fail, it is often so gradual that…
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FES Rowing Expands Exercise Possibilities for People with Disabilities
By Mark McAndrew, Concept2 Rowing Concept2 Rowing and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Cambridge will feature Exercise for Persons with Disabilities on September 21 at Abilities Expo Boston. Longtime hub of competitive rowing, Boston has been both witness and participant in an evolutionary form of the sport known as FES indoor rowing. (See front page Sunday Boston Globe…
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Eye-control Empowers People with Disabilities
By Tara Rudnicki, Tobii ATI WHO: Tobii Assistive Technology Inc. (ATI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tobii Technology, is the leading global provider of eye-tracking and gaze interaction-based Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices that help improve the lives of individuals with disabilities by enabling them to communicate, control their environment and gain greater independence through their…
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Does Advocacy Really Make a Difference?
By Mickae Lee, National Coalition for Assistive and Rehab Technology (NCART) All advocacy action begins not just with acknowledging that change is needed, but also believing that change is possible. In the world of Complex Rehab Technology (CRT) we know without a doubt that access to innovative technology for individuals with disabilities is an ever-growing…
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Medicaid Cuts to Complex Rehabilitation Technology Threaten Access for Disability Community
By Don Clayback, NCART Cuts to Illinois’ Medicaid program are squeezing Complex Rehabilitation Technology (CRT) providers to the point where they are not be able to provide services to the nearly 4,000 Illinois residents who depend on the state to pay for CRT equipment. Two Leading CRT Providers Unable to Participate in Medicaid Illinois spends a…