BridgingApps is wrapping up the first year of our Expansion Pilot project, which introduces Easterseals affiliates across the country to our App Search Tool and to apps we recommend for Easterseals clients. This week, our 2025 affiliates share about their…
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Expansion Pilot Reports, Wrapping Up 2025: Report #2, Easterseals Massachusetts
BridgingApps is wrapping up the first year of our Expansion Pilot project, which introduces Easterseals affiliates across the country to our App Search Tool and to apps we recommend for Easterseals clients. This week, our 2025 affiliates share about their…
Expansion Pilot Reports, Wrapping Up 2025: Report #1, Easterseals of Southeastern Pennsylvania
BridgingApps is wrapping up the first year of our Expansion Pilot project, which introduces Easterseals affiliates across the country to our App Search Tool and to apps we recommend for Easterseals clients. This week, our 2025 affiliates share about their…
Gratitude: Everyone’s Best Friend
Circumstances don’t make us unhappy: they only make existing attitudes more obvious. There are people overflowing with joy in hospitals and prisons; there are also people who have never seen a hardship, yet complain nonstop about their dissatisfaction with life.…
The Autistic Caregiver
November is National Family Caregivers Month. This post is dedicated to all family caregivers, but especially to those with unusual challenges. Most people think of “caregiving” as something done for disabled people by non-disabled people. But there are caregivers who have disabilities…
On the Job with IDD: Employment Resources
Jobs can be hard to find when you have a disability. Especially an intellectual or developmental disability (IDD). In the United States, fewer than 1 in 5 people with IDD have full-time jobs; and several thousand of these jobs are…
Easterseals-Reviewed Apps: Thanks to Our Affiliate Partners
Thanks to our partner Easterseals affiliates from the Expansion Pilot program, who have recently contributed several new reviews to the App Search Tool. Thanks also to Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation, for their generous support of the Expansion program. Amy Barry, Digital…
You’re Not What You Eat: Nourishing Wellbeing as New Moms
Cathy Foreman MS, RD “Nourishment” is a pretty interesting word for the food containing nutrients that we need to grow and to stay healthy. And it’s important to remember that through the food we eat, we nourish ourselves not just…
Is Sleep Time Tech Time?
Cathy Foreman MS, RD For households with a new baby, if there is an opportunity for a parent to lie down and rest it’s almost sacred time. “Sleep when the baby sleeps” is common advice that has real value, but…
More About Libraries in Your Pocket
Companion article to “A Library in Your Pocket,” which shares “the latest from Libby.” Libby, the best-known app for accessing public-library e-books, has recently added new features to improve app performance, simplify Libby book club programs, and otherwise make it…










