Like most people, Mikelle Learned loves to stay in touch using her cell phone. What used to work was calling her friends, support team members and family using her ECO to chat or leave a voice mail. It was a good use of her assistive technology enabling her to fully participate in her social network until […]
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What once looked like an expensive blank slate, void of the traditional programs typically loaded on desktop and laptop computers; Mikelle’s iPad has become populated with effective and inexpensive applications. After a somewhat lengthy discovery process, we have found two applications, which Brian Simms, her speech and language therapist, helped Mikelle learn to use. They
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Brian Simms, Mikelle Learned and Otter Latch for iPad We love the iPad for augmenting Mikelle’s communication and entertainment needs. But, we had a problem. Mikelle wasn’t using it as effectively as we thought she could. After scratching our head, exploring simple, cheap ideas for stabilizing an iPad on a wheelchair tray and looking at
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On a Thursday afternoon, a film crew hired by Dell Computers from Arts + Labor https://www.arts-and-labor.com located in Austin, Texas spilled into our living room to film Mikelle and a few other folks in Denver who are served by Rocky Mountain Human Services www.rockymountainhumanservices.org Dell is jumping into the assistive technology business by providing
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Sometimes the simplest of things can cause the biggest problems. Imagine yourself four wheeling it, casually cruising along the sidewalks of Denver. Okay, maybe if you count the tiny back wheels, it would be six wheeling it and your steering mechanism fails you. You crash. Look down and there is your front wheel laying on
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Posted by: Sally Richards Media Marketing Consultant 20/20 Captioning and Reporting SRichards2020@aol.com https://www.2020captioning.com/ Imagine for a moment, the soft sounds from the hum of car, hoo hoo from a morning dove, crinkle-crinkle of leaves and splish-splash walking through a puddle. . Sounds are often taken for granted when one is in harmony with a world
By Brian Simms (Mikelle’s AT Guy!) Colorado Therapy Associates My grandfather always said, “When all else fails…think.” That’s what he told his high school chemistry students up until he retired at the age of 75 and I am reminded of that everyday when I see it written on his desk I inherited when he passed
