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Fun Mental Exercises for Brain Awareness Month

June is Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness Month. Here are some fun facts and activities for keeping your brain healthy. 1. Brain-Health Quiz True or False? Alzheimer’s disease is the same thing as dementia. False! As many as 40 percent of dementia cases may have…

Building a Well-Connected World for Senior Adults

BridgingApps’ programs for senior adults include “Well Connected” presentations for our local Front Porch affiliate. Usually there is one Well Connected event each quarter, in either English or Spanish, with a dozen or so attendees. The most recent (in Spanish)…

BridgingApps Reviewed App | Slice It!

BridgingApps just published the following BridgingApps Reviewed App on the site: Slice It! is an interactive math app with 200 brain building puzzles that challenge students’ understanding of core geometry concepts including shapes, symmetry, area, and measurement. This is a…

Emergency Preparation for AAC Users

May 31 is the last day of Speech-Language-Hearing Month. June 1 is the first day of hurricane season. This article recognizes both. Here Comes Summer—Here Come Weather Worries “What is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever,…

The image shows a young child, dressed in a blue striped shirt, focused on using a tablet or similar device. In the upper right corner of the image, there is a small icon featuring Elmo and Cookie Monster, characters from Sesame Street, suggesting that the child might be interacting with a Sesame Street app, possibly "Sesame Street Alphabet Kitchen." The background is plain, keeping the focus on the child and the device

Interactive Learning Apps For All | Parenting Special Needs Magazine

The long, lazy (or at least less “scheduled”) days of summer will soon be ending, and it will be time for all of us to turn our attention back to academics. Maybe your child or teen will be transitioning to…

Let’s Celebrate: Inclusive Post-Secondary Education

Begun in 2020, Inclusive Post-Secondary Education (IPSE) Day (May 1) emphasizes college options for disabled and underserved students. Intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs), as well as the more “extensive” physical disabilities (e.g., deaf-blindness and quadriplegia), mean extra challenges. In today’s…

My Child Has Autism: Could I Be Autistic, Too?

It’s happened to many parents. Your child seems to be developing slowly, or struggles with making friends, or has behavior issues at school. You consult a specialist, who suspects autism and recommends a formal evaluation. Then comes Early Childhood Intervention,…

woman in wheelchair smiling at laptop screen

Self-Management Apps for Young Adults

The road to “self-management” (full personal independence) has a long learning curve. If you’re disabled, the curve is even steeper—not only because of the disability itself, but because society still tends to focus on “can’t-dos.” People may have told you,…

How to Keep Physically Active in Summer Weather

It’s not only academic skills that can suffer from “summer slide.” As every Houstonian knows, a summer heat wave—which can strike anytime from May to September—can make it a challenge just to walk to your car without collapsing. So if…

VestLife: An Organization Solution for Families

Most people today have too much to keep track of. Work duties. Volunteer duties. Personal projects. Electric bills. Cable bills. Car-repair bills. School records. Medical records. Passwords to access all those bills and records. It gets worse when someone in…