Wade Wingler, Director of Assistive Technology at Easter Seals Crossroads, shows us a robot called MIP by WowWee and how it may be used for kids with Autism to understand emotions. Check it out here:
Posts with the assistive technology tag
Smash-a-Ball: Electronic toy for visually impaired
Nadia Guevara and Pedro Bori are both educational psychologists with years of experience of working with children with visual impairments. Play is an essential part to a child’s development, especially his or her cognitive development. Guevara and Bori realized there aren’t many options available for children with visual impairments so they came up with a solution: […]
10 Apps for Practicing Motor Skills
Motor skills play an essential part in child development. These skills consist of gross and fine motor skills, both of which begin developing early in life. Gross motor skills involve using several body muscles to do things like sitting, crawling, walking, running, and jumping. Fine motor skills require smaller muscle movements of the hands to do “finer” activities like […]
Inpris’s UpSense Super Braille Keyboard
Touch screens on tablets and smartphones are sleek and often convenient to most users. However, for individuals with visual impairments, they tend to be quite a challenge. Inpris is an Israeli technology company addressing blindness and touch screen technology by creating an “eye-free” experience for mobile devices. To do this, they have created the UpSense Super […]
Tech Tip: Blindfold Video Poker App
For this week’s Tech Tip, our equipment loan specialist Justin Amber is going to introduce us to the Blindfold Video Poker app. This is a free iOS app that allows individuals to enjoy video poker–without ever having to look at the screen! NOTE: The money used in this game is fictitious and will rejuvenate after a certain […]
Strengthen your child’s language concepts with the QuestionIt iPad app
If you read our blog regularly, you are likely aware that mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets play a big role in the field of assistive technology. The potential of apps on these devices is virtually limitless. With certain apps and home automation devices already available, users have the ability to unlock their home, adjust their […]