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Meet Alex -- An 82 year old war-veteran living in small-town North Dakota. During his time in the service, Alex experienced complete hearing loss in one ear and now wears a hearing aid in the other. Moreover, he has total blindness in his right eye, and he is...

      The RESNA Catalyst Project has recently published its AT Inventor Resource Guide. The purpose of the Guide is point inventors and others interested in the growth of the assistive technology industry to available resources to promote new...

Cruising down the road, you will see bicycles of all kinds. One proposed bike is designed specifically for people with MS, spinal cord injuries, or paraplegia. The TheraTryke is constructed in such a way that it can be used for both therapeutic and recreational...

If you are not currently a tablet or smartphone user, you probably know someone who is, or at the least, experienced someone using a digital device in a public setting. So by now most people understand all of the wonderful benefits digital devices offer, including...

IPAT was recently asked to give a hands-on workshop to the North Dakota Vision Rehabilitation Specialists in the area of apps for vision and accessibility for the iPad/iPhone. Participants learned about apps that do everything from recognizing products to...

Summer is here, and for many that includes plans for a family vacation. While at the Autism Walk in Bismarck recently, a family asked me if I could direct them to any theme parks where accommodations for children with disabilities were available. This was a new...

The RCx-1000 Remote Control Speakerphone, at first glance, does not look like a phone at all! Flat, square, and covered with buttons of various shapes and sizes, it bears rows of flashing lights, places to write names, and a pendant. There is no handset, coiled...

I was working with a woman in her 80's who let me know in no uncertain terms that aging was hard work, and living with vision loss made it even harder. She told me her low vision made her seem so much less able than she actually is, and she was afraid that living...