{"id":491,"date":"2011-12-02T14:11:24","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T19:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=491"},"modified":"2011-12-02T14:11:25","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T19:11:25","slug":"weekly-wrap-up-friday-1222011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=491","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Wrap-Up Friday, 12\/2\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AT in the news for the week of November 28th- December 2nd<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theengineer.co.uk\/sectors\/electronics\/news\/robot-could-help-improve-older-peoples-quality-of-life\/1011138.article\">Robot could help improve older people&#8217;s quality of life <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/c\/a\/Health-Care-IT\/Microsoft-Surface-Tabletop-PC-Aids-Children-With-Autism-Cerebral-Palsy-891999\/ \">Surface Tabletop PC Aids Children With Autism, Cerebral Palsy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcoexist.com\/1678887\/a-cane-for-the-blind-improves-social-interactions-sunday-strolls\">A Cane For The Blind Improves Social Interactions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guernseygazette.com\/v2_news_articles.php?heading=0&amp;page=72&amp;story_id=1113 \">High tech audio system aids in classroom clarity<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/excitim.biz\/2011\/11\/29\/penguin-racer-switch-adapted-toy\/\">Penguin Racer switch adapted toy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.battlecreekenquirer.com\/article\/20111129\/NEIGHBORHOODS05\/111290328 \">The Gift of Reading with Bookshare\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globaltvedmonton.com\/tablet+technology+provides+new+options+for+children+with+learning+disabilities\/6442527212\/story.html \">Tablet technology provides new options for children with learning disabilities<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.eastersealstech.com\/new-device-could-help-prevent-emotional-meltdowns\/\">New device could help prevent emotional meltdowns<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.eastersealstech.com\/new-device-could-help-prevent-emotional-meltdowns\/\">UTech designing prototype device to aid disabled kids<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/smart-accessibility\/smartphone-technology-as-an-accessibility-platform?newsfeed=true\">Smartphone technology as an accessibility platform<\/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=491\" 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 November 28th- December 2nd Robot could help improve older people&#8217;s quality of life Surface Tabletop PC Aids Children With Autism, Cerebral Palsy A Cane For The Blind Improves Social Interactions High tech audio system aids in classroom clarity Penguin Racer switch adapted toy The Gift of Reading [&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\/491"}],"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=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}