Anne Marie Fantin has always worried about what type of jobs her son would be able to get once he was finished with school. Eric, who is disabled, has found his calling in lawn care and his mom is doing what she can to help back him up reports The Windsor Star. Eric, who turns […]
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Saudi Gazette: Two years ago, Abo Dayah’s car broke down on his way from Jizan, where he was studying, to Riyadh, where his family lives. When he got out to examine the engine, he was hit by a speeding car. Abo Dayah slipped into a coma for 20 days and lost his eyesight. To make
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According to NPR, Steve Kitchin, who was in his 30s at the time, became a quadriplegic. His legs were paralyzed, but he still has some use of his arms. More than anything, Kitchin wanted to drive again. He got a minivan with hand controls for the gas and brake. The only problem was, he’s the
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TIME’s picks for the best new gadgets and breakthrough ideas of the year, we’ll feature some of the ones we find interesting. Tens of thousands of amputees in the developing world wear an inexpensive prosthetic called the Jaipur Foot. But poor patients who lose a knee joint have few options: a titanium replacement can cost
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BusinessWeek: Apple is widely celebrated for making devices as easy to use as they are elegantly designed. What customers probably don’t know is that some of these features aren’t exactly new–they evolved from software Apple created to help disabled people use PCs. Among them: the new iPhone’s voice control option, which allows users to speak
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DailyCamera.com: On any weekend, you’re likely to find Bridget Lane baking cookies. But her cookies are a little more complex than the average chocolate chip treat and not just because they’re gluten free. Lane’s cookies got their start in a special situation and have grown into a business designed to nourish those in special situations.
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Las Vegas Sun: A glue-gun base became an invaluable welding tool, a pool ladder became a support stand and a wooden disc became new hope for disabled cowboys. Those are just a few examples of the creative responses 25 Touro University students seeking master’s degrees in occupational therapy came up with when charged to invent
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Popular Science: When Michael Callahan was 17, he lost his short-term memory when he hit his head in a skateboarding accident. “The neural pathways were all wrong,” he recalls. Within weeks, he was back to normal, but the incident left him thinking, how could he help people who had permanently lost abilities that most of
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TuscaloosaNews.com: Hands-free fingernail polish, a Braille keyboard, a guitar pick for someone missing a hand, a baby carrier for a mother with cerebral palsy. These are some of the projects created by students at Northridge High School. Science teacher Beth Allaway first had them experience what it’s like to live with a disability. “The goal
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BusinessWeek: In mid-2006, Susan Perry was inspired by her niece, who suffers from macular degeneration. Sitting at a restaurant, Perry grabbed a napkin and sketched an idea for a talking menu that would help blind people place orders. Two years and $600,000 in investments later, her Miami company, Taylannas, produces audible menus that can be
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