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Make Your Voice Heard – Hearing Loss

This past week, I had the opportunity to participate in the Hearing Loss Association of America’s (HLAA) Annual Virtual Convention. HLAA’s mission is to “open…

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A person with dark brown skin smiling in a tan and white polka dot shirt wearing glasses and white headphones sitting in a black wheelchair typing with a lounge space blurred in the background.

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Make Your Voice Heard – Hearing Loss

This past week, I had the opportunity to participate in the Hearing Loss Association of America’s (HLAA) Annual Virtual Convention. HLAA’s mission is to “open…

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A person with dark brown skin smiling in a tan and white polka dot shirt wearing glasses and white headphones sitting in a black wheelchair typing with a lounge space blurred in the background.

Make Your Voice Heard – Hearing Loss

This past week, I had the opportunity to participate in the Hearing Loss Association of America’s (HLAA) Annual…

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Make Your Voice Heard – Hearing Loss

By Kathryn Wyeth This past week, I had the opportunity to participate in the Hearing Loss Association of…

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A Fidgetarium of Possibility

One of my minor autistic traits is fidgeting. When I was a kid, I had to learn how…

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Phone with facebook log on screen

Access to Facebook

It is so wonderful to see advances in the social media platforms in recent years to make content…

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Woman using AT to work hands-free with puff device control, including voice control and additional asisstive devices besides computer

The Future of AT in Employment

Using AT to gain employment and support work over a lifetime has been a goal of our community…

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Zoomsgiving: Connecting While Decreasing Social Isolation & Loneliness

By Jen Mullins, BS, CTRS, MATP Staff When I think about Thanksgiving, I think about connecting with my…

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AT to Help with Wearing a Mask!

[Image description: the featured image of this video is of Jen Mullins, a white woman who has her…

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Conference Room with a large screen containing both a slide and captions

The Marriage of Captions and Sounds

With a little practice, you can increase your enjoyment of videos, slides, and movies by playing available captions…

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3-D Printed AT for Writing, Painting, and Drawing (with Jen)!

[The featured image of the video above is of Jen Mullins, a white woman with long, brown, wavy…

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New Accessibility Features for iPhone, iPad, & More-Coming this Fall!

By Jen Mullins, BS, CTRS, MATP Staff This past Monday Apple announced that it will be releasing its iOS…

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A collection of works related to special education including IEF, Child, Appropriate

The Need for Transformation in Special Education

I became directly involved in special education advocacy in 1981…

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Device that attaches to the handle of lawn tools, allowing you to put your arm through a ring and to a grip that lower down on the handle

Adventures in Lawn Work

Spring is finally here!  It’s my first spring in my…

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Woman holding a book to her face. Text in picture says: Happiness is the smell of a new book.

Book Scents and E-Reader Sense (Part 1)

By Jen Gosett, BS, CTRS, MATP Staff I am a person…

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Finding Grab Bars

By Kathryn Wyeth, MATP Team Leader In my last post,…

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a black pancake-shaped cushion sits on a car bucket seat

Let Me Take You for a Ride!

By Aimee Sterk, LMSW, MATP Staff I went back to…

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Try it Before You Buy It–Short Term Loans

By Aimee Sterk, LMSW, MATP Program Staff Michigan’s Assistive Technology…

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