Just a Small Thing

01/12/2022

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/dec/01/rob-burrow-to-be-first-non-verbal-person-to-read-cbeebies-bedtime-story

Former rugby league player, who has motor neurone disease, will use eye-controlled computer

03/03/2020

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-51729702/star-wars-actor-mark-hamill-surprises-girl-with-r2-d2-style-arm

Bella Tadlock, 11, is the first person to receive a bionic arm inspired by the famous droid.

18/05/2017

07/09/2016

Great to see Narrative stories taking a front line seat in AAC!

27/07/2016

An inspiration to us all...

Natasha Lambert has completed one element of her latest challenge, Sea and Summit Scotland. She reached the top of the Cairn Gorm Mountain, just after 3pm on Monday. It took her just over five and …

14/06/2016

‘Wake up!’ Baroness Campbell’s plea to disabled people over EU referendum apathy

A leading peer has told disabled people to “wake up” to the reality that they could lose many of their hard-won rights if the UK votes to leave the European Union (EU) later this month.In an impass…

24/05/2016

Great to hear about a possible return of the iBot - a groundbreaking wheelchair, and a technology gamechanger...

Automaker and Segway daddy revive wheelchair project

10/03/2016

Please sign and share this as widely as possible...

The House of Lords has been unable to stop a planned £30-a-week cut to disability benefits forced through by Government MPs. This will cripple those in receipt of these benefits, leaving many in literal poverty. The government must reverse this decision. Lives are at risk.

06/03/2016

Came across this Dyslexia Simulator and thought it was pretty impressive - not everyone experiences dyslexia like this by any means, but for those who do, you can see how hard reading becomes...

A friend who has dyslexia described to me how she experiences reading. She can read, but it takes a lot of concentration, and the letters seems to “jump around”.

03/03/2016

I love everything about this...
(Thank you for sharing Rolf!)

29/02/2016

Just came across this competition - an important addition to providing speech output...

The RERC on AAC Student Research and Design Competition is designed to stimulate research and development on the topic of tone of voice in AAC systems.

02/07/2015

What a ride! With determination and skill, anything is possible...

Need inspiration? Martyn Ashton hasn't let being paralysed stop him from riding bikes again in this unbelievable video

09/06/2015

Patient on artificial leg: "I feel the foot for sure" - BBC News http://buff.ly/1KQJ5pw - can people with no voice get same feedback levels?

Scientists in Austria have created an artificial leg which allows the amputee to feel lifelike sensations from their foot.

03/06/2015

Good article about using open hardware to build better assistive technology http://buff.ly/1KDRMTZ, with some important points, but as Simon Judge on twitter noted, ignores important open hardware already in assistive technology and brushes over the fact that in practice long-term hardware reliability is valued more highly than long-term hardware upgradeability. Perhaps this should change?

Assistive technology such as Augmented/Assisted Communication (AAC), Text-to-Speech and Speech-to-Text (TTS/STT), magnifiers, screen readers, and eye gaze systems enable people with disabilities to accomplish...

15/04/2015

RT British Humanists: Stephen Hawking sings 'Galaxy Song'. Brilliant mind, strong ethical convicitions & a sense of fun. What a great man.

Monty Python - Galaxy Song Available to buy now from iTunes - http://po.st/Ed0IKJ Enjoy our latest video for our new single, “Stephen Hawking Sings Monty Pyt...

14/04/2015

Any software engineers with ideas for transformative AT on Consumer tech? try the AT&T NYU Connect Ability Challenge

Help us, help millions.

14/04/2015

Sorry I haven't posted for a while, but a friend shared this, and I thought I would pass it on to you all!

12/03/2015

Powerful tale of dementia and - Richard Glatzer, Still Alice film-maker, dies aged 63

The co-author and director of Still Alice - for which Julianne Moore won an Oscar last month - has died following a four-year struggle with motor neurone disease.