{"id":3516,"date":"2016-07-07T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3516"},"modified":"2016-07-07T09:00:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T13:00:53","slug":"als-at-challenge-7713","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3516","title":{"rendered":"ALS AT Challenge, 7\/7\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>ALS Assistive Technology Challenge<\/b><br \/>\nThe ALS Assistive Technology Challenge is a program focused around accelerating the development of communication technologies for ALS patients with development funds of over $500,000.\u00a0 The Prize Phase of the challenge is now open for registration.\u00a0 Final deadline for submission of the letter of intent is\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1133739320\"><span class=\"aQJ\">July 29, 2016<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0 The ALS Assistive Technology Challenge, a joint initiative by The ALS Association and Prize4Life, is offering a $400,000 prize for the development of flexible, accessible technology to help people with ALS communicate with ease. The challenge is open to academics, industry, young start-ups and anyone that believes they can make a difference for people living with ALS.\u00a0 To learn more, visit:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alsa.org\/research\/als-assistive-technology-challenge-2.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.alsa.org\/research\/<wbr \/>als-assistive-technology-<wbr \/>challenge-2.html<\/a>.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/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=3516\" 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>ALS Assistive Technology Challenge The ALS Assistive Technology Challenge is a program focused around accelerating the development of communication technologies for ALS patients with development funds of over $500,000.\u00a0 The Prize Phase of the challenge is now open for registration.\u00a0 Final deadline for submission of the letter of intent is\u00a0July 29, 2016.\u00a0 The ALS Assistive [&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\/3516"}],"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=3516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3519,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516\/revisions\/3519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}