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,…
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Special Needs and Unwanted Surprises: Dealing with Last-Minute Disruptions in an Uncertain World
Read Time 5 Minutes If there’s anything worse than having your plans spoiled, it’s having plans spoiled when they include someone who has autism or Down syndrome, who never heard the unspoken “circumstances permitting” behind “we’ll go to the beach…
Getting the Word Out: How You Can Help Others Find Affordable Digital Access
Read Time 2 Minutes As discussed in our recent post, “Library Hotspots and Lift Zones,” lack of reliable high-speed internet is an educational, economic, and vocational disadvantage. Fortunately, there are many options for getting advanced digital access on a limited…
How to Use Apple’s Work Focus Feature
In this video, we demonstrate how to use the Focus feature for iOS.
Library Hotspots and Lift Zones: Making the Internet Universally Accessible
Written By Katherine SwartsRead Time 3 Minutes After the initial COVID outbreak of 2020 shut down public gatherings, the disadvantages of living without reliable broadband internet became obvious. School kids in low-income families, cut off from in-person education and unable…
When Your Parent(s) and Your Child(ren) Have Special Needs
Written By Katherine SwartsRead Time 7 Minutes July is National Sandwich Generation Month—a time to honor everyone who has accepted the challenge of helping aging parents while simultaneously raising minor children. Even if your children are self-reliant for their age…
Global Accessibility Awareness Day: Mental Impairments Deserve Awareness, Too
By Katherine Swarts Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD for short)! This Thursday marks the eleventh annual GAAD, a time to consider how digital technology can make life easier for those who struggle to perform basic everyday functions. When most…
Service of a Different Kind: Bridging Communication Gaps for Ukrainians
As Disability Awareness month comes to a close, my mind has been completely occupied by thoughts of those with disabilities during war time and those who acquire disabilities as a result of war. As tensions increased between Russia and Ukraine…
Lunch & Learn Rewind: Exploring Accessibility Settings in iOS- Vision
In our Lunch & Learn on February 23, we shared… Spoken Content VoiceOver Text Size Display Siri Zoom Dark Side Hover Text Magnifier Dictation Audio Descriptions Reduce Motion Who might use these settings? A student who is reading below grade…
Tools and Tech Tips to Support Kids with Cortical Visual Impairments
Reading Time: 2 MinutesWritten By Cristen Reat Dr. Christine Roman-Lantzy is the director of the Pediatric VIEW Program at The Children’s Home & Lemieux Family Center and a former project leader of the CVI Project at The American Printing House…