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Happy National Deaf-Blind Awareness Week!
June 23rd - 29th is National Deaf-Blind Awareness Week In honor of Helen Keller's birthday, June 27th, the last week of June has been designated as Deaf-Blind Awareness Week. A remarkable woman, Helen Keller became deaf and blind at the age of 19 months following...
ND Assistive Receives $75,000 Reeve Foundation Grant for Smart Home Tech
The ND Assistive staff are pleased to announce that we have received a $75,000 grant from the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation. The award is one of the High Impact Innovative Assistive Technology (HIIAT) grants awarded as part of the Reeve Foundation’s...
Sharing the Caregiving Responsibility Made Easy with TimeTree Calendar App
Recently we had family members stop in our office to donate back assistive technology devices that their now deceased mother had received from one of our programs. The family shared how the goal was to keep their mom in her home until she passed. They were able...
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...
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