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How to Build Your Personal Support Network

When your child has serious disabilities, it’s important to have friends and family you can rely on for backup caretaking, resource recommendations, and comfort when reality gets overwhelming. However, you can get into trouble assuming that people will always be…

BridgingApps Teacher and Therapist App List

Whatever your schedule for the 2023–24 school year, it won’t be long before summer-to-school transition season becomes everyday-routine school season. Which is not to say that “routine” always equals “easy.” Particularly for those whose routines include managing special education and…

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Back to School: Learning Self-Sufficiency

What are your family’s “learning goals” for the 2023–24 school year? Your children’s school district and board of education will have official standards for academic skills that students are expected to master. (For Texas residents, these are in the TEA…

Back to School Apps for Students

Are your kids ready for the 2023–24 school year? Or if it’s started already, how are they adjusting to new routines and challenges? School success isn’t just about mastering reading, writing, and STEM topics: there’s also personal time management, healthy…

Eye-Gaze Technology for ALS, Part 2

Over 31,000 people in the United States have ALS (full name amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), a terminal nerve disease. The primary symptom is deteriorating muscle control which ultimately leads to respiratory failure and death, usually within five years. It’s quite possible…

Back to School: What to Do First, What Can Wait a Bit

If school has started and there are still unchecked items on your getting-ready list, that’s not a disaster—assuming your priorities were in order. You may have a problem, however, if you spent too much “Priority A” time on what should…

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Tech Shopping on a Budget

Inflation has hit the technology market—including the software department. Even inexpensive apps can make an ugly dent in your budget if you download a screenful of them. The good news is, many great apps are available at little or no…

Preparing for Back-to-School: Health Considerations

As the 2023–24 school year begins—with the inevitable crowds and stresses of the season—these tips will help your children stay healthy for its challenges. Keep a couple of good health apps on your child’s device. These include coping tools for…

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Back-to-School Apps List for Parents

As families across the country begin a new school year, thoughts turn to new routines—and new hassles. Adjusting wake-up hours. Getting everyone from bed to bus. Scheduling extracurricular activities. Briefing new teachers on accommodation and health needs. If you need…

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Assistive Technology and Helping Others

You may or may not be a technical whiz, or have personal disability experience. However, even casual interactions can make positive contributions to the world of assistive technology (AT) and the lives of its users. Here are a few ideas…