September is Cortical Visual Impairment Awareness Month—CVI Awareness Month for short. If you’ve never heard of CVI, you aren’t alone. Even eye doctors often fail to recognize it: Perkins School for the Blind estimates that 80 percent of cases are…
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Library Cards in the Digital Age: Have You Checked Your Reading-App Options Lately?
Another Library Card Sign-Up Month is drawing to a close—but there’s never a wrong time to get a library card. Or to dig out one you haven’t used in a while. If it has been a while since your last…
From the Classroom to the Family Room: “Technology for Households” Update
“Since going to Technology for Households (which we heard about through my child’s school), I’ve learned how to manage my kid’s time and apps on the iPad. He is eager to learn, and pays attention.” –Tomicka Charles, Technology for Households…
What Everyone Should Know About Aphasia
June is National Aphasia Awareness Month. Today, we share an overview of this more-common-than-recognized disability. Just What Is Aphasia? If you’ve never even heard of aphasia, you’re not alone. According to research by the National Aphasia Association, “aphasia” is a…
Saving for Independent Adulthood: The Latest on ABLE Accounts
However much help they need with daily living, people with disabilities become legal adults at the same age as everyone else. An 18-year-old with cerebral palsy, low vision, or intellectual disability has the same rights and responsibilities as a “typically…
Family Resources for Speech-Language-Hearing and Aphasia Awareness Month
May was Speech-Language-Hearing Month and June is National Aphasia Awareness Month. If you have a child with hearing disabilities, the following resources can help you find assistive technology, peer support, and valuable information. Texas Hands & Voices Texas Hands &…
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…
Get Familiar With Our App Search Tool
When looking for a useful app for yourself, your child, or even your students, it is tough to find one that you can fully trust. Whether it is a learning-based app or an app helpful for thriving in everyday life,…
Life After High School with IDD
For parents of high school seniors, graduation season is a season of pride and anxiety. Pride over what the young graduate has accomplished and will accomplish. Anxiety over the challenges ahead. Anxiety worsens when the graduate has a disability—especially an…
BridgingApps Partner Resource: MindApps
“[A mental-health app] is an extremely personal choice and a complex process involving many variables.” –Cristen Reat, BridgingApps Program Director It’s been almost five years since we first highlighted our partnership with the Division of Digital Psychiatry at BIDMC, led…