{"id":776,"date":"2012-03-09T09:25:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T14:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=776"},"modified":"2012-03-09T09:25:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T14:25:44","slug":"weekly-wrap-up-392012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=776","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Wrap Up, 3\/9\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AT in the news for the week of 3\/5 &#8211; 3\/9<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ripten.com\/2012\/03\/08\/adaptive-technology-on-apple-ipad-helps-people-with-autism-communicate\/\">Adaptive Technology on Apple iPad Helps People with Autism Communicate<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fellowgeek.com\/a-Eye-Tracking-Gets-Cheap-and-Powerful-thanks-to-Tobii-ix1882.html\">Eye Tracking Gets Cheap and Powerful, thanks to Tobii<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/video\/google-hangouts-accessible-blind\/\">Chrome extension makes Google+ Hangouts accessible to blind. Made by non-Google person!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edudemic.com\/2012\/03\/vanderbilt-student-rethinks-how-tablets-can-help-disabled-students\/\">Vanderbilt Student Rethinks How Tablets Can Help Disabled &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.ca\/robert-whent\/tablets-autism_b_1289644.html?just_reloaded=1\">How Tablets Can Help Your Child&#8217;s Learning Disability<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mediaaccess.org.au\/latest_news\/general\/5-good-news-stories-from-csun-2012\">5 good news stories from CSUN12<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865551615\/Mechanical-creeper-helps-disabled-man-work-on-cars-again.html\">USU students create &#8216;mechanical creeper&#8217; allowing disabled man to work on cars again<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubergizmo.com\/2012\/03\/le-chal-shoes-helps-visually-impaired-navigate\/\">Shoe prototype uses smartphone navigation and vibration to guide visually impaired wearers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourdolphin.com\/newsitem.asp?id=638\">Dolphin unveils SaySo, a new software tool for people w\/ dyslexia<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/a11ybugs.org\" href=\"http:\/\/a11ybugs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/a11ybugs.org focuses on the role browsers and authoring tools play in making the web more accessible<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/02\/29\/147190092\/the-man-working-to-reverse-engineer-your-brain?sc=tw&amp;cc=share\">The Man Working To Reverse-Engineer Your Brain <\/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=\"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=776\" 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 3\/5 &#8211; 3\/9 Adaptive Technology on Apple iPad Helps People with Autism Communicate Eye Tracking Gets Cheap and Powerful, thanks to Tobii Chrome extension makes Google+ Hangouts accessible to blind. 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