I was reading ADDiva’s blog yesterday and came across a post about a new initiative called “Think Beyond the Label”, aimed at improving employers’ attitudes towards people with disabilities. According to the website, an organization called “Health and Disability Advocates” is running the campaign “on behalf of almost 25 states and various national and regional [...]
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A few days after the new year I came down with a cold. As far as colds go, it hasn’t been that bad. I’ve even been able to breathe through my nose the whole time. The bitch of it is that when I catch a cold, I’m extremely prone to inner ear [...] 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 [...] 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” [...] I recently came across the story of Jessica Cox on tagfoot. She’s a dancer, pilot and a double blackbelt in tae kwon do. She was also born with no arms. The first thought I had about this story was about how our society defines disability. Jessica Cox has no arms, so she’s “disabled”. I have all [...] Yesterday at <a href=”http://www.wellorderedchaos.addaptabilities.com/?p=318″>Well-Ordered Chaos</a> I blogged about heading out the door, needing to catch a train, and realizing literally at the last minute that I needed to set out donations for a pick-up. Even though I was successful — I set everything out, taped signs to it, and even made my train — I [...] 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 [...] That’s a much more polite headline than the original one, believe you me. For those of you who haven’t heard, Roman Polanksi was arrested in Zurich over the weekend on 30 year old charges of drugging and raping a thirteen year old while in California. He pled guilty to statutory rape, [...] That is the question, isn’t it.* Focus is a commonly misunderstood aspect of ADD. Anyone with ADD can tell you of the many many times they’ve been told, “but you can’t have ADD! I’ve seen you play video games for hours without getting bored!” Folks with ADD know that that their inability to pay [...] The suit is called HAL, but it reminds me more of The Terminator… I came across this article thanks to one of the folks over at Tagfoot. Here’s an excerpt: The HAL exoskeleton, on the other hand, has robotic limbs that strap to your arms and legs — providing much fuller mobility than a wheelchair. The suit’s [...] |
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