Posts under ‘Technology’

Disability Advocate Gerard

About DAG: www.disabilityadvocategerard.com Our mission is to assist communitites throughout the world in attempting to develop comprehensive systems of community-based,inter-agency care for local populations with special needs,A “Needs Assessment” has been identified as a key component of deleloping current underutilized. A “Needs assessment”provides assistance planners with the data needed to make informed decisions with regards […]

Disability and the Media

Disabilitydates are always looking out for positive stories about the disabled or those`s with disabilities and we came across a great organisation Grit Media. http://www.gritmedia.org.au Grit Media promotes the rights and aspiration`s of people with disabilites by creating opportunities to be seen and heard in a range media production`s Their production`s bring disability awareness into […]

Robots help the disabled

A great piece of news from Canada this week is about research and in Edmonton, Alberta, to support disabled children. Researchers at the University of Alberta are working with students with disabilities such as cerebral palsy with the aid of robots. “We are trying to give children an opportunity to experience discovery and manipulation,” said professor Al […]