CVS Pharmacy is CVS’s store app that gives users a more personal and easier shopping experience. The app is designed for users to earn rewards, fill prescriptions, shop, make photo prints, and more. The app is free to download and…
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STAFF PICKS: Marjorie Reichard on Parenting Apps
BridgingApps Project Manager Marjorie Reichard has two young daughters with disabilities. These are her picks for the apps best at making caregiving easier to manage. Proloquo2Go was life-changing after Olivia started talking up a storm at age 3—but I only…
Veterans and Suicide
Although Veterans are generally respected these days (check out our Veterans Day article), they also have a reputation as a depressed lot. A stereotype, of course, but not one entirely without foundation: 11–30% of Veterans have some history of post-traumatic…
What Is Assistive Technology?
November is National Assistive Technology Awareness Month. What comes to mind at the phrase “assistive technology”? By formal definition, assistive technology is “any item, piece of equipment, or product system—whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified, or customized—that is used…
Influencers Who Empower
Ever hear of “inspiration porn”? It’s a cultural phenomenon that has made “inspiration” a dirty word to some people with disabilities. Typically, it involves highlighting someone who has accomplished something noteworthy and who also uses a wheelchair or has another…
Did You Know? Digital Essentials | Siri & Hey Google
BridgingApps, through the generous support of the CTA Foundation is proud to present the “Did You Know?” video series. This series will help guide users to identify, customize and set up helpful features on a mobile device one already owns…
Male Military Spouses on the Home Front
Around 16 percent of the U.S. military are now women—and many of them (11 percent in the Army) are married to civilian men. Some of these “military husbands” are Veterans and already familiar with how the system works. Others have…
STAFF PICKS: Andi Fry on Caregiving Tools
November being National Family Caregiver Month, our next two Staff Picks posts will focus on caregiving-related apps. Today’s “staff picker” is Andi Fry, BridgingApps’ Montgomery County Outreach Coordinator and mother of a University of Houston student with severe cerebral palsy.…
What to Do for Veterans Day
Veterans Day (this coming Friday) gets less attention than some other holidays. Perhaps you’ve even met someone who was outraged to find the bank or post office closed on November 11. Which is a shame: given the hardships many Veterans…
Organizing Your Schedule, for Caregivers
November is National Family Caregiver Month. In a multi-person household, keeping track of everyone’s needs and schedules is rarely easy. When one or more family members have disabilities, things get even more complicated. Besides generating expenses, appointments, and paperwork that…