Anxiety and mental health issues can be challenging to manage alone, so it’s crucial to have access to a reliable source of support. Fortunately, anxiety hotlines are available 24/7, offering advice in a safe and confidential environment. This article will discuss the many benefits of using an anxiety hotline and what you can discuss with … Read more
By Daria Costello Dyslexia has long been a generic term, even a terminological catch-all, encompassing a range of classifications, symptoms, and diagnoses. It’s remarkable how much disparity there is in understanding dyslexia and its causes and treatments, despite having been first identified and labeled by doctors in Europe over a century ago.[i] Generally recognized at its … Read more
The introduction of wearable assistive technology has vastly improved everyday living for users with disabilities for decades. Whether it’s aural aids for the hard of hearing, glucose monitors for diabetic individuals, or mobility bands for indoor navigation, assistive tech has made the world more accessible to all. Occasionally, the assistive tech space introduces an innovation … Read more
The Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access (CATEA) is a multidisciplinary engineering and design research center affiliated with the Georgia Tech College of Design. The consortium’s flagship program focuses on finding barriers that individuals with learning challenges may face. In this piece, we’ll outline the work they do. Accessibility requires a lot of research … Read more
Humankind underwent an unimaginable transformation in the last millennium. The Science Museum of London, England estimates that we communicated using language as much as 100,000 years ago. Historians posit that prior to the development of language, humans communicated through writing. Yet, many brilliant people over the centuries with dysgraphia and writing disabilities prospered, succeeded, and showed … Read more
Dyscalculia, in broad terms, is a life-long learning disability about numbers and arithmetic skills. It is sometimes confused with math anxiety, which has a different pathology, but which often presents in similar ways. This article deals mostly with ‘developmental dyscalculia’, which is distinguishable from ‘acquired dyscalculia’ in that the latter is as a result of … Read more
Learning disabilities (LDs) have different names in different countries, but they all refer to a person’s problems with assimilating, processing and/or reproducing learning content in a typical manner. For the purposes of this article, we will focus on the American definition and diagnosis. According to the Learning Disabilities Association of America, a learning disability is … Read more
“Medical cannabis” was published on wikipedia.org, and is shown here in its original form. However, this version is designed for W3C, accessibility compliance. Medical cannabis, or medical marijuana, is cannabis and cannabinoids that are recommended by doctors for their patients.[1][2] The use of cannabis as medicine has not been rigorously tested due to production restrictions and other governmental regulations.[3] Limited evidence suggests cannabis can reduce … Read more
As technology advances, there is help available for those suffering from impairments related to writing. Dyslexia, for example, creates problems for young people learning to write. When others can’t understand what they express with pencil and paper, their broader educational interests may be stifled. In the context of social communication, writing is even more important … Read more