{"id":2746,"date":"2014-12-12T10:18:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T15:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2746"},"modified":"2014-12-12T10:18:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T15:18:13","slug":"at-news-wrap-up-121214","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2746","title":{"rendered":"AT News Wrap Up, 12\/12\/14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big news this week was really big news. Really. Big. Read all about tax-free disability savings accounts that were approved by the U.S House of Representatives. And then check out a great video segment on toy shopping for kids with special needs. And also some other cool stuff. AT in the news for the week of 12\/8 thru 12\/12<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/technology\/rewiring-senses-technologies-enable-humans-to-hear-colour-smell-time-1.2864312\">Rewiring senses: Technologies enable humans to hear colour, smell time<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1149832\/assistive-technology\">Assistive technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.today.com\/holidayguide\/holiday-toy-guide-how-buy-kids-special-needs-1D80329923\">Holiday toy guide: 3 tips for shopping for kids with special needs<\/a>\u00a0(Video)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.disabilityscoop.com\/2014\/12\/04\/house-approves-accounts\/19891\/\">House Approves Tax-Free Disability Savings Accounts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.disabilityscoop.com\/2014\/12\/03\/researchers-thought-marker\/19888\/\">Researchers Identify Autism &#8216;Thought-Marke<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.disabilityscoop.com\/2014\/12\/03\/researchers-thought-marker\/19888\/\">r<\/a>&#8216;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.atos.net\/blog\/2014\/12\/05\/accessibility-inclusion-future-hands\/\">Accessibility &amp; Inclusion &#8211; The Future Is In Our Hands<\/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=2746\" 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>The big news this week was really big news. Really. Big. Read all about tax-free disability savings accounts that were approved by the U.S House of Representatives. And then check out a great video segment on toy shopping for kids with special needs. And also some other cool stuff. AT in the news for the [&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":[3,27,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746"}],"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=2746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2747,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions\/2747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}