The silver screen has given us many images of incredible exoskeletons used to fight aliens and crime. One of the first exoskeletons was in a 1967 movie called “The Ambusher” which gave humans super strength to carry things. The Power Loader then became iconic in the movie Aliens when Sigourney Wearer used the exoskeleton to fight […]
Author: Nikol Prieto
Cool tools that help a teacher teach life skills to special needs students.
Shari Petersime has been a junior/high school life skills teacher for kids with special needs for many years. She has been teaching for a total of 38 years and currently teaches the life skills class at North Eastern Wayne High School in Fountain City, IN. She teaches the kids in this class how to cook, […]
INDATA Project is Away at Gadget Camp!
The staff of the Indata Project is away at Gadget Camp this week. We are fortunate to host a camp for kids who use augmentative communication devices on the beautiful Butler University campus. We may not have blog posts this week, but look for Friday’s podcast and highlights about our camp experience coming soon.
Monday Tech Tip: Low Vision Center
Anna Leung, Assistive Technology Specialist for Easter Seals Crossroads in Indiana, shows us an app available for Macs called Low Vision Center. This app shows your contacts and calendar in a much bigger font and is compatible with voice-over. Check it out!
Consumer Highlight: Suzanne Sasser
Outside of a three-story red brick senior citizen apartment building on a gorgeous spring day, I met Suzanne Sasser. She greeted me with a big warm smile. I instantly liked Suzanne and over the next couple of hours I learned that she was a very open and interesting person. Five years ago Suzanne was diagnosed […]
RESNA 2014 Annual Conference to be held in Indianapolis!
RESNA 2014 Annual Conference *Racing Towards Excellence in AT* is coming to Indianapolis!! Wade Wingler, Director of Assistive Technology at Easter Seals Crossroads, is a RESNA member and has attended the RESNA conference many times in the past. “Getting together with other professionals in the field of assistive technology to share ideas, learn from one […]