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Software Improves Facebook Accessibility for the Blind

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Photo: Screenshot of adapted Facebook page [18/02/2013] Researchers have developed a software package that adapts Facebook for visually impaired people.Software Improves Facebook Accessibility for the Blind - Read more

Helping Deafblind People to Communicate

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Photo: TACTIC gloves; linked to [13/02/2013] A team of researchers has designed a new device to help deafblind people to communicate.Helping Deafblind People to Communicate - Read more

Communication Benefits for Grandparents of Grandkids with ASD

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Photo: Instructor helps student; linked to [02/01/2013] For three years, University of Utah researchers have been deploying a computer-based design program called SketchUp in workshops to teach and develop life skills for youth on the autism spectrum.Communication Benefits for Grandparents of Grandkids with ASD - Read more

Thomas Schmidberger - That´s How He Rolls

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Photo: Thomas Schmidberger; linked to [02/01/2013] Sports and family – these are the things which are especially important to Thomas Schmidberger. At the Paralympics in 2012 he won a bronze medal and a silver medal. What the vice world champion in wheelchair table tennis would do with a lottery win and what he can laugh about, he tells on REHACARE.de.Thomas Schmidberger - That´s How He Rolls - Read more

Florentine Degen - That´s How She Rolls

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Photo: Florentine Degen; linked to [19/12/2012] „I would not be able to do that“ is the title of her book, but she did it anyway: At age 20, Florentine Degen concerned herself actively with death and spent a year doing voluntary social work in a hospice. Still today, she is committed to hospice work. Where the young woman finds quiet and why beautiful moments do not repeat, she tells us on REHACARE.de.Florentine Degen - That´s How She Rolls - Read more

Elderly: Group Interaction Is the Key to Significant Health Outcomes

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[17/12/2012] The health benefits of 'water clubs' in care homes for the elderly, where residents gather together regularly to drink water, owe as least as much to the social nature of the activity as to the value of drinking water itself, an investigation by psychologists has shown.Elderly: Group Interaction Is the Key to Significant Health Outcomes - Read more

Mobile App Helps Improve Language and Social Skills

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Photo: Picaa screenshot; linked to [14/12/2012] Researchers have developed a cell phone that can be downloaded free and improves basic competences (maths, language, knowledge of the environment, autonomy and social skills) in children with autism-related disorders or Down’s Syndrome. Mobile App Helps Improve Language and Social Skills - Read more

Device Helps Children with Disabilities Access Tablets

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Photo: Women who created the device; linked to [12/12/2012] Researchers at Georgia Tech are trying to open the world of tablets to children whose limited mobility makes it difficult for them to perform the common pinch and swipe gestures required to control the devices.Device Helps Children with Disabilities Access Tablets - Read more

 
 
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