Awareness! is a new App for the iPhone that listens for danger for you while you lose yourself in your music. The App only runs on iOS4, and when it is active, you get a bright, red, throbbing bar across the top of your iPhone screen at all times reminding you the App is active. The only way to rid yourself of that annoying redness is to kill the App with a double click on the home button and then choose to close it as a live application.
Would you spend $200.00 USD on an iPhone App to give back your ability to communicate via voice? That might sound like a lot of money for a little bit of software, but for the disabled who can regain their lost communication — Proloquo2Go is just the right facilitator to help restore self-worth and speech.
Continue reading → Facilitated iPhone Conversation with Proloquo2Go
Is New Orleans a cursed city? The Katrina Report suggested there is still a deep and lingering discrimination against the ultimate revival of that important, Southern, American, core. Now we have reports from the field that disabled children are being discriminated against within the urban seawall.
Continue reading → New Orleans Discrimination Against Disabled Children
We know when an economy sours, the first to suffer are the children and the disabled. As technology ascends, we also see the rapid deceleration of literacy. Instead of full words, we get text speak. Instead of logical arguments, we are flooded with irrational comments. Instead of the Blind reading books in Braille, they “learn by listening” to audio books instead — and become illiterate in the process: The Blind can hear and respond sound, but they are unable to argue against to what they hear in written form.
Continue reading → As Braille Dots Fade, Blind Illiteracy Builds
Should we be surprised to read in the New York Times this morning that disabled students are spanked more than their average peers?
We don’t like to use the word “crippled” today — because we prefer to gloss over that historic, condemning, label with “disabled” — but the Government Accountability Office recently reported that schools are now restraining and punishing crippled children just because they are disabled.
This article represents a quick presentation of what is possible with GIS (Geographic Information Systems) software. We were pleased to provide some GIS content for Glencoe/McGraw-Hill publishing for three textbooks in 2008: World Geography and Cultures, Glencoe World History and The American Vision — all with a combined expected worldwide sales of 750,000 copies.
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