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The Americans with Disabilities Act was passed on this day in 1980. I think it was 1980; everyone’s saying that it’s “21 years old and leaving me to do the math. As a dyscalculic, this often leads to trouble. Anyway. Anniversaries are occasions to stop and reflect on what you’ve accomplished and what remains to be [...] The Americans with Disabilities Act turns 20 today! Thanks to the ADA, Americans with disabilities enjoy better access to buildings, transportation, telecommunication, employment, and education. It paved the way for IDEA, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, which enabled me to graduate from college. There’s still a long way to go before we as a society [...] A fellow dysgraphic named Hannah recently commented on my post about dysgraphia and X-Acto knives. She’s a costume designer who struggles with drawing, but manages hand-stitching and cutting without too much difficulty. It got me thinking about how important it is to have the right tools when you’re trying to work around something like dysgraphia. For [...] Awhile back, I wrote about Google Voice, and how awesome it was as assisstive technology for someone like me with dyscalculia and dysgraphia. If you don’t know Google Voice, it’s a system whereby Google gives you a phone number which you can use to receive voice mail, which gets converted into a transcript, which is sent [...] Marlee Matlin speaks at an FCC hearing about internet captioning Marlee Matlin testified recently at an FCC hearing held at Gaudelet University about the need for captioning on Internet video feeds. She was active in the effort twenty years ago to caption all television broadcasts, and also to caption videos. Needless to say, with [...] A few months ago I wrote about how hard it often is for me to use an X-acto knife. Motor dysgraphia apparently involves poor muscle tone in the fingers, making small precision work very difficult. What’s worse than the clumsiness is the shooting, cramping pain that comes with it. Turns out I just didn’t have [...] I’ve blogged before about the seasonal aspects of my ADD. Unsurprisingly, things have been even worse since the return to Standard Time (ptui!) and the loss of another hour of light in the afternoon. I’ve been more tried, more hungry, more spacey … and paradoxically, less able to get to sleep at a reasonable hour. “Attention” [...] Once again, I need to say that Google Voice rocks. I love getting transcripts of voice mail as e-mail and SMS. I hate answering the phone, because it’s such an interruption, and because if I need to write anything down I have to find my computer and type it up somewhere … so it’s ten [...] Google Voice provides voicemail, sent right to your e-mail inbox Google provides me with yet another piece of adaptive technology for my learning disabilities Google, in their never-ending quest for world domination to create technology to make our lives easier, has come out with Google Voice Mail. Google Voice is a free VOIP service that provides [...] When I was writing my squidoo lens on the long-term psychological effects of learning disabilities, I kept running into the words affect and effect. “Affect” is usually a verb, and “effect” is usually a noun, but this is English we’re talking about, which means there are exceptions. I think I used to have a handle [...] |
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