Pipecleaner Dreams

My gotta-have-the-latest-gadget son, Chip, got the new iPad 3 last week. While I am very happy for him, I am also thrilled (!) because it m...

I wrote last week about Robbie Wood, a nine year old boy with autism who wandered away from his family. After 6 days, Robbie was found and ...

Advances in technology for people with disabilities seems to be happening at a dizzying speed. Every week, I read multiple articles about p...

NASA has unveiled a new book for blind and visually impaired readers. The book “Getting a Feel for Lunar Craters” was created with the NLSI ...

The website, enabled.in, has listed what its authors feel are the top 10 tech gadgets for people with disabilities. Right at the top of the...

Do you have a child who needs to remember to do things multiple times during the day? Maybe it's to check blood sugar, or to take medic...

Here are a few stories I found this week. Although the robot in this story looks a little creepy to me, apparently making it look as human-...

(Photo by C.J. Gunther for the New York Times) There was a great article in the Monday New York Times titled, In A Graying Population, Busin...

The use of IPads is exploding in the disability community. Almost every blog of a parent of a special needs child is talking about wanting ...

I used to travel a lot for work and I always had recurring nightmares about being in a strange city, walking around, and getting horribly lo...

It seems to me that technology to assist people with disabilities has really taken a huge step forward recently. Almost every day, I read a...

Just last week I wrote about Microsoft's new gaming system that would recognize sign language. Having two deaf children, I was extreme...

Just when I was about to put my foot down and tell the kids that we did NOT need yet another video game system in our house, Microsoft comes...

Finding closed captioned movies at the theatre is difficult in my area, to say the least. There is only one theatre that shows captioned mo...

If I had $150,000 and could fly to New Zealand, I would definitely get one of these for Ronnie! (See the video after the text). The news rel...

Because I believe the appropriate application of technology could hold a key piece of the future’s puzzle for our children with significant ...

I love having a geek in the family! My son, Chip, is always finding things that I never knew I needed, but then realized I couldn't liv...

Today has been quite exciting around my house. Ronnie got his video phone installed, and he hasn't stopped smiling! The only problem is...

Anyone that has been reading my blog for a while knows how I feel about devices such as the Kindle reader and the lack of accessible feature...

First, an update to yesterday’s post – thank you all for your comments. I have some places to start looking now, and I’m not feeling quite ...