Amy is our Digital Marketing Lead—and the mom of three teens and two young adults. This is her list of most-used apps for reducing the overwhelm in keeping track of everyone’s schedules, whereabouts, and school needs. Google Calendar is a…
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When It’s Your Turn to Make Reasonable Accommodations
Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, anyone with a disability has the right to “reasonable accommodations“–modifications to public and work environments as required for equal participation in everyday activities. A few examples: employee handbooks in audio form; captions or a…
Living with a Dual Diagnosis: When Mental Disorder Meets Substance Use Disorder
Mental and emotional disorders present challenges on two fronts: dealing with the disorder itself, and dealing with stigma attached to the disorder. Public understanding has come a long way in recent decades, but it’s still easy to find people who…
Hearing Loss: The Most Isolating Disability
“The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex … than those of blindness. Deafness … means the loss of the most vital stimulus—the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir and keeps us in [human] intellectual…
BridgingApps Reviewed App | Tile – Find lost keys & phone
BridgingApps just published the following BridgingApps Reviewed App on the site: Tile – Find lost keys & phone is both an app and a line of small Bluetooth tracker devices. You purchase any number of these devices from Tile and…
Parenting Special Needs Magazine | Tech Tools for Growing Up
The new issue of Parenting Special Needs Magazine is here! Our article, “Tech Tools for Growing Up”, contains tools for caregivers of teens and young adults to help make the transition from childhood to adulthood a little easier to navigate. Perhaps you and…
Prenatal-Diagnosed Disabilities: Expecting and Raising a Child with Special Needs
September is Newborn Screening Awareness Month—but in modern obstetrics, much screening takes place weeks or months before the birth. Pregnancy has always been a time of extensive preparation—and of learning that things never go according to script. Not even when…
Make the First Five Count
Life inevitably includes unwelcome surprises; and for parents, among the most dreaded surprises is hearing that their baby isn’t as physically and mentally “perfect” as hoped. But if this happens to you, don’t let anyone tell you that your child’s…
STAFF PICKS: Tara Rocha on Education
Time for another “Staff Picks” list of Top 5 recommended apps. Featured topic: Education. “Staff Picker”: Tara Rocha, BridgingApps Digital Learning Specialist. 1. Canva A “go-to” favorite: you can create all types of content on the go, including presentations, videos,…
Staying Healthy with a Disability
Do “disability” and “healthy” sound mutually exclusive? They shouldn’t be. An impairment to one physical or mental function doesn’t render the whole body useless: if anything, other functions become more effective as they’re exercised to compensate. Still, if the person…