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Trade in Your Remote Controls for VOICE CONTROL: how to make devices with remote controls work with Alexa
Do the remotes in your home feel like they're multiplying? Worse more, are your remote letters and numbers too hard to read and/or too hard to press? Or do your remotes keep disappearing, only to reappear months later after you've purchased a replacement remote?...
May is Older Americans Month
Every year in May, Older Americans Month recognizes the contributions of older adults across the nation. This year’s theme of Older Americans Month is “Connect, Create and Contribute”, according to Administration for Community Living to encourage older adults to...
Hearing Aids and 2% Fixed Interest Rate Loans: A Match for Better Hearing!
Are you in need of hearing aids, but are finding the cost a bit out of reach? Have you tried to get a loan for hearing aids and found the interest rate to be in the teens? If you live in North Dakota, we may have a solution for you and just in time for May is...
AT for Time Management: One Woman’s Quest to Finally Be On Time, Part 1
About Me I was born 11 days early. It often feels as though that was the last time I was early for anything in my life. I'm turning 30 in May. 30 years later, I'm ready to be early. I'll settle for being on time. I was diagnosed with ADD, Attention Deficit...
Specialized Phone Program: Options That Are Simple and Easy to Use
The North Dakota Telecommunications Equipment Distribution Service (TEDS) is designed to provide free specialized telephones and accessories to ND residents with severe hearing, vision, speech, cognitive or physical disabilities who have difficulty using standard...
$6 Scan and Read App of My Dreams?
The App Voice Dream, the company that brought us the Voice Dream Reader App, recently developed a new product, the Voice Dream Scanner App for iOS Apple devices. Voice Dream Scanner allows one to take a picture of text and have it read aloud with its Optical...
Assistive Technology Calculator Apps for… MATH!
Lately, I've experienced an upsurge in requests for assistive technology apps for math. Keep in mind these are not apps to teach someone how to do math. Although assistive technology can help someone learn, it is not a learning resource. Instead, these are math...
Alternatives to Traditional Toileting
Now for our sexiest topic yet! Alternatives to traditional toileting! If you find that you or your loved one need additional assistance with toileting beyond the options discussed in our Safety and Independence in the Bathroom blog, explore the options below....
March 27th is National Assistive Technology Awareness Day!
Today, March 27th, 2019 is the first-ever National Assistive Technology Awareness Day! On March 11, 2019, Senator Robert P. Casey Jr., and Senator Kevin Cramer submitted S.Res.103, a resolution designating March 27th as National Assistive Technology Awareness Day...
Please Ring Bell for Assistance: Paging Systems for Caregivers
I can remember watching comedy shows as a kid where one of the characters would be sick in bed or laid up and having a bedside bell to ring for when they need assistance or help (getting a blanket, need water, turn off the light, etc.). And then sometimes the...
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