Assistive Technology Resources

Are you or someone you know visually impaired? Are you interested in using Twitter to stay connected with friends, stay up-to-date on the news or find work opportunities? Easy Chirp is a website that can help people with disabilities view information and interact on Twitter.

Engineers in South Korea have designed the 'first' Braille smartwatch 'Dot' has shifting cells of raised bumps which can be 'read' as words Watch will notify users of texts and could be used as an e-reader Creators aim to sell it for less than $300 and as an educational tool Most of us take telling the time and reading books for granted.

For college sophomore Matthew Walzer, simply putting on his shoes was an impossible task. Lacking the dexterity to get his foot in and out of his shoes, the Florida teen, who was born with cerebral palsy, had to enlist the help of his mother and father or others.

Assistive technology device means any item, piece of equipment, or product system, whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified, or customized, that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of a child with a disability. The term does not include a medical device that is surgically implanted, or the replacement of that device.

Netflix's original series now have a superhero among them. Comic fans know Daredevil as a crusader. He's a Marvel character who, in addition to his superhuman abilities, has a very human disability: blindness. Needless to say, Daredevil has quite a few fans with visual impairments - and they were looking forward to the show.