By mid-December, many people are already a bit overdosed on holiday cheer. A constant stream of ads, crowds, and sugar highs is particularly challenging if your children are prone to meltdowns in the face of overstimulation. Perhaps you’re feeling on…
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Gift-Giving on a Budget
You may be among those prudent souls who create a “holiday savings fund” each year, putting aside a little each month to ensure ample funds when gift-buying season arrives. If you’ve never considered the idea, don’t feel bad: few souls…
Digital Shopping to Reduce Holiday Stress
If you hate the sensory overload of mall shopping, there’s no need to force yourself. Digital shopping has been a convenient alternative for years—all the more so now that most stores have their own apps. Using an App for Shopping…
BridgingApps Reviewed App | Jacquie Lawson Advent Calendar
BridgingApps just published the following BridgingApps Reviewed App on the site: Jacquie Lawson Advent Calendar is a beautifully made interactive digital advent calendar with daily surprises. Each day click or tap on a numbered ornament to find an animation or…
Expanding Digital Access: Making New Contacts, Looking Ahead
Did you know that in the digital age, one in five U.S. households still lack adequate broadband service? And in the age of accessibility, many digital resources still lack accommodations for users with disabilities. Much of the solution lies in…
How Digitally Literate Are You?
Briefly defined, “digital literacy” is a working grasp of skills needed to navigate the internet, send texts and emails, join video calls, use various apps, and otherwise take advantage of digital technology. But there’s more to it than that. You…
BridgingApps Lists, Highlight: Holiday Favorites
Post-Thanksgiving days are here, and the next few weeks will be a blur of: Be sure to save time for the quieter traditions: the candles and meditations and peaceful family nights. However your family prefers to celebrate, there’s an app…
Journaling Apps for Counting Your Blessings
What are your Thanksgiving plans this year? Whatever your abilities or life situation, don’t forget the “thanks” part. Gratitude makes you happier and healthier, and it attracts other good things to your life. Writing or recording specific blessings helps thankfulness…
Family Caregivers and the Holiday Season
November is National Family Caregivers Month, but for most BridgingApps clients (and many of our team members), every day is a caregiver work day. As November segues into December, here are our best apps and tips for keeping the holiday…
Texas Children’s Hospital, Easter Seals Greater Houston, and the BridgingApps AT Lab
Much of BridgingApps’ work involves helping children and families find the best assistive technology (AT) to meet their unique needs. There are many pediatric MDs trying to do the same, but lacking full information on AT options. Now, BridgingApps and…