NH Family Support Conference 2018! 4/28, A student from NH presents with Diana from AT for Education-Successful Transition Using AT! Accommodations, Laws, Tech demos, Advocacy! http://fscnh.com/index.html Come Visit our Exhibitor Table for Hands-On support and AT Demos! (What a beautiful resort and views/ area to join us in the White Mountains of NH)!
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"My personal experience with discrimination, as well as those I heard from others, sparked my desire to develop legal advocacy skills. My pre-law advisor urged me to strive for the highest ranked school so I could gain access to the most employment opportunities. Even lawyers with disabilities face employment discrimination...
The school didn’t know exactly which accommodations I need. Neither did I; doing law school deafblind was new to me, too.
After I spent months crafting a competitive law school application, offers came pouring in. And then came the big one: Harvard Law School. Harvard offered me admission with a financial aid package that included grants and loans...
In some ways, Harvard felt a lot like my other schools. The written word served as my lifeline. The disability office worked with professors to convert all written materials into an accessible format. My biggest struggle was finding a better ways to communicate with classmates and professors...https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/03/what-college-is-like-for-students-with-disabilities-according-to-a-harvard-grad.html?fbclid=IwAR1_IsnmaM-9SII5nBViN2u1S-0zL-iQ86ytaKXcLuCGZFL9gjENV6Q-320
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Through three years, disability rights advocate Haben Girma struggled with a variety of different challenges before becoming Harvard Law's first deafblind graduate.16 Free Sign Language Learning Resources:
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It was part of a competition run by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to encourage young people to consider careers in technology. www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-50729363/the-prize-app-designed-to-help-deaf-children-in-school
The app designed by kids to help deaf classmates
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The winning app is being developed by Amazon Web Services and will be released for use in schools."Using his software skills, Joe has built a new guitar called Chord Assist that teaches guitar to people with disabilities, especially those who are blind, deaf or mute...
It is a very neat proof of concept that shows that anything is possible with technology. Not only that, with a plethora of knowledge around us, we can build inexpensive accessible solutions ourselves without having to wait for big manufacturers to come up with one."
Chord Assist Makes Learning Guitar Accessible - Assistive Technology Blog
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Chord Assist, built by Joe Birch, is a custom guitar that teaches guitar to people with disabilities, especially blind, deaf or mute.This content isn't available right now
When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted.Utah Center for Assistive Technology (UCAT) adapted Nerf gun
Google Seeks Help From People With Down Syndrome
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From Siri to Alexa, voice assistants are everywhere, but the technology tends to miss every third word that people with Down syndrome say. Now a new effort is underway to change that.RECOMMENDED LINKS
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