{"id":1928,"date":"2013-07-19T09:16:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T13:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2013-07-19T09:16:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T13:16:44","slug":"at-news-wrap-up-71913","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=1928","title":{"rendered":"AT News Wrap-Up, 7\/19\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AT in the news for the week of 7\/15 &#8211; 7\/19<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/topics\/world\/health-care\/new-technology-helps-swedish-care-elderly#.Uek01W9bgOM.twitter\">New technology helps Swedish care for elderly<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2013-07-technologies-people-disabilities.html\">Adaptive assistive technologies for people with disabilities<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/PR-CO-20130716-907792.html?mod=wsj_share_twitter\">HumanWare Announces Prodigi &#8211; A Breakthrough for People Living with Vision Loss<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobihealthnews.com\/23698\/canada-subsidizes-ipads-for-speech-therapy\/\">Canada subsidizes iPads for speech therapy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2013\/07\/14\/disabilities-groups-technology-accessibility\/2453235\/\">Disability rights advocates press for accessible technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/lifestyle\/health\/tagging-alzheimers-patients-causes-a-rift-29419885.html\">Tagging Alzheimer&#8217;s patients causes a rift<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lifestyle.inquirer.net\/114187\/can-stem-cells-make-the-blind-see-again#ixzz2ZCyScZsJ\">Can stem cell help make blind people see again? 10 patients suffering from RP have had their eyesight restored<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-17938_105-57593590-1\/paralyzed-artist-paints-with-mind-alone\/\">Paralyzed artist paints with mind alone. A woman with Lou Gehrig&#8217;s disease paints using mind alone<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-17938_105-57593590-1\/paralyzed-artist-paints-with-mind-alone\/\">America now has a smartphone and provider for the blind<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weightwatchers.com\/help\/index.aspx?pageid=1396161&amp;utm_source=buffer&amp;utm_campaign=Buffer&amp;utm_content=bufferac8c8&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">Weight Watchers now offers accessible solutions for the blind and visually impaired<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/computer-programs-blind-read-write-music-article-1.1398144\">Computer programs help blind read, write music<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spacecoastdaily.com\/2013\/07\/therapy-dog-tinder-helps-children-with-disabilities\/\">Therapy Dog &#8220;Tinder&#8221; Helps Children with Disabilities<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.philly.com\/2013-07-13\/news\/40538505_1_disabilities-cerebral-palsy-cents-and-sensibility\">Help with managing finances for people with disabilities<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2013\/07\/14\/disabilities-groups-technology-accessibility\/2453235\/\">Disability rights advocates press for accessible technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/document\/fcc-launches-speaker-series-innovation-accessible-technologies\">FCC Launches Speaker Series on Innovation in Accessible Technologies<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=1928\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AT in the news for the week of 7\/15 &#8211; 7\/19 New technology helps Swedish care for elderly Adaptive assistive technologies for people with disabilities HumanWare Announces Prodigi &#8211; A Breakthrough for People Living with Vision Loss Canada subsidizes iPads for speech therapy Disability rights advocates press for accessible technology Tagging Alzheimer&#8217;s patients causes a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1929,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions\/1929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}