Unpredictable & Swift, This Neurological Condition Demands Creativity, Foresight & Expertise from the Seating & Mobility Team
http://mobilitymgmt.com/Articles/2010/05/01/ALS.aspx
Alisa Brownlee, ATP, CAPS blog offers recent articles and web information on ALS, assistive technology--augmentative alternative communication (AAC), computer access, and other electronic devices that can impact and improve the quality of life for people with ALS. Email--abrownlee@alsa-national.org. Any views or opinions presented on this blog are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the ALS Association.
Friday, October 21, 2011
Mind Reading Computer System May Allow Paralyzed People To Communicate and Control Robots (with video)
Imagine living a life in which you are completely aware of the world around you but you're prevented from engaging in it because you are completely paralyzed. Even speaking is impossible. For an estimated 50,000 Americans, this is a harsh reality. It's called locked-in syndrome, a condition in which people with normal cognitive brain activity suffer severe paralysis, often from injuries or an illness such as Lou Gehrig's disease.
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=34976
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=34976
Nissan and EPFL to Push Development For Thought Controlled Vehicles
Nissan’s sudden enthusiasm for the development of wheelchairs controlled by brain activity has taken a lot of people by surprise. The technology is not particularly new but Nissans’s enthusiasm is.
http://thinktechuk.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/nissan-and-epfl-to-push-development-for-thought-controlled-vehicles/
http://thinktechuk.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/nissan-and-epfl-to-push-development-for-thought-controlled-vehicles/
Brain-Computer Interaction Needs Better Sensors and Signal Analysis
Computerworld published an interesting article today about the evolution of Neurotechnology which is close to the point where humans will be able to communicate with computers through thought, allowing us to navigate the web just by thinking what we want
http://neurogadget.com/2011/10/19/brain-computer-interaction-needs-better-sensors-and-signal-analysis/2840
http://neurogadget.com/2011/10/19/brain-computer-interaction-needs-better-sensors-and-signal-analysis/2840
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Lives Worth Living Documentary on PBS
Dear Colleagues:
Rarely in the history of media has a documentary captured the authentic voices of disability leaders as they reframe the debate on the disability rights movement in America. This October 27 premiere of Lives Worth Living coincides with National Disability Employment Awareness Month, and gives “Independent Lens” a whole new meaning as this film recalibrates the focus that chronicles the Independent Living Movement.
This film is for everyone with – and without - disabilities. We encourage students to watch and discuss in school; employees to watch (with their Employee Resource Groups); families to experience it with friends. Blog about it, talk about it.
Let PBS know this is the kind of authentic programming that is important.
Lives Worth Living IS the film worth watching!
Lead On.....
Tari
Tari Hartman Squire, CEO
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LIVES WORTH LIVING Premieres on the PBS Series INDEPENDENT LENS
Thursday, October 27 at 10 PM During
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
Powerful Documentary Chronicles the History of America’s Disability Rights Movement
While there are over 54 million Americans living with disabilities, Lives Worth Living is the first television history of their decades-long struggle for equal rights. Produced and directed by Eric Neudel, Lives Worth Living is a window into a world inhabited by people with an unwavering determination to live their lives like everyone else, and a look back into a past when millions of Americans lived without access to schools, employment, apartment buildings, and public transportation – a way of life unimaginable today. Lives Worth Living premieres on the Emmy® Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens, on Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 10 PM (check local listings) to coincide with National Disability Employment Awareness Month.
Lives Worth Living traces the development of the disability rights movement from its beginning following World War II, when thousands of disabled veterans returned home, through its burgeoning in the 1960s and 1970s, when it began to adopt the tactics of other social movements. Told through interviews with the movement’s pioneers, legislators, and others, Lives Worth Living explores how Americans with a wide variety of disabilities — including blind, deaf, physical, intellectual and psychiatric — banded together to change public perception and policy. Through demonstrations and legislative battles, the disability rights community finally secured equal civil rights with the 1990 passage and signing into law of the Americans with Disabilities Act, one of the most transformative pieces of civil rights legislation in American history.
Tobii Eye Gaze Evaluator
Tobii releases Gaze evaluator for C-series and PCeye - benchmark and chart eye tracking progress. Dont Guess - Assess
http://www.tobii.com/en/assistive-technology/global/products/software/tobii-gaze-evaluator/
http://www.tobii.com/en/assistive-technology/global/products/software/tobii-gaze-evaluator/
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