New DEAFinition App helps you communicate with deaf friends and family

A new South African app called DEAFinition, developed by mobile app specialists Codehesion, helps users to learn the basics of sign language to communicate with deaf friends and family.

DEAFinition is a non-profit company providing a range of services and funding opportunities to promote equal access for the deaf community.

The SASL DEAFinition App, available to Android and iPhone users, offers reference videos and material for the official sign language used by deaf people in South Africa.

See https://mybroadband.co.za/news/industrynews/430840-new-deafinition-app-helps-you-communicate-with-deaf-friends-and-family.html

#technology #mobile #deaf #hearing #disability
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● NEWS ● #CommonDreams #CDC ☞ #Disability Rights Advocates Condemn CDC Director's 'Abhorrent' Comments on Covid-19 Deaths https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/10/disability-rights-advocates-condemn-cdc-directors-abhorrent-comments-covid-19-deaths

Disability Rights Advocates Condemn CDC Director's 'Abhorrent' Comments on Covid-19 Deaths

"We live in the wealthiest country in history. We can afford to give healthcare to everyone. We can afford enough masks, tests, and medical staff to keep everyone safe. But that requires seeing the full humanity of each of us."

Brain-Computer Interface Turns Thoughts to Text – Allowing a paralyzed man to imagine writing and have the words translated to text

Dating from May 2021, researchers used an experimental device to tap into surgically implanted electrodes, capturing activity in the region of the brain responsible for physical movement. When the quadriplegic patient envisioned writing individual characters by hand, words flew across the screen. The text was highly accurate (95 percent) and arrived faster (90 characters per minute) than any other BCI, coming in at around the same speed performed by similarly aged people typing on their smartphones.

Led by Frank Willett, a research scientist with the Braingate research consortium, the new system doubles the speed of previous thought-to-text BCI tools, which had subjects look at a screen and mentally “point and click” — as if using a cursor — rather than simply imagining writing the letter.

See https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/brain-computer-interface-turns-thoughts-to-text

#technology #brain #bci #disability
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Brain-Computer Interface Turns Thoughts to Text

Breakthrough tech defines "a new kind of writing," researchers say.

Brain-Computer Interface Turns Thoughts to Text – Allowing a paralyzed man to imagine writing and have the words translated to text

Dating from May 2021, researchers used an experimental device to tap into surgically implanted electrodes, capturing activity in the region of the brain responsible for physical movement. When the quadriplegic patient envisioned writing individual characters by hand, words flew across the screen. The text was highly accurate (95 percent) and arrived faster (90 characters per minute) than any other BCI, coming in at around the same speed performed by similarly aged people typing on their smartphones.

Led by Frank Willett, a research scientist with the Braingate research consortium, the new system doubles the speed of previous thought-to-text BCI tools, which had subjects look at a screen and mentally “point and click” — as if using a cursor — rather than simply imagining writing the letter.

See https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/brain-computer-interface-turns-thoughts-to-text

#technology #brain #bci #disability

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Remote volunteering opportunity:

Disability Navigator App

https://app.code4socialgood.org/project/view/3126

What do individuals with disabilities need the most help with in regards to inclusion? Finding accurate information that meets their needs for services, support, funding, livelihood, etc. There are over 2 million adults in my state with a disability (CDC). This is equal to 23% or 1 in 4 adults. My state is currently ranked 47th in the nation for providing funding and services to adults with developmental disabilities and it’s not getting better. When an individual leaves high school, their support seemingly ends too and the resources they need cannot be found. Through my research, I have found that the resources are there, but the findability is not. I also know this to be true because I have experienced it. I am the legal co-guardian for my 35-year-old sister who has Down syndrome.

My background is in building technology solutions and implementing digital marketing strategies for large corporations. I am looking for developers who understand JavaScript and how to build backend databases using JSON. I am putting together a team to help me create a web-based platform prototype that supports people with special needs. This tool will be an integrated solution. Contact me to learn more about the details.

If you’re not a developer but have a passion for supporting the special needs population by way of technology then please contact me too. The diversification of thought is also a superpower.

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● NEWS ● #TruthOut ☞ #Disability Advocates Give Tepid Welcome to Build Back Better's Home Care Funding https://truthout.org/articles/disability-advocates-give-tepid-welcome-to-build-back-betters-home-care-funding/

Disability Advocates Give Tepid Welcome to Build Back Better's Home Care Funding

The investment is half of what was originally promised and is unlikely to address long waiting lists and low wages.

#GULAG Inc. (Google): we bomb and maim people. Also Gulag: we hire people with missing limbs because we are oh-so-very-inclusive (and tolerant). #bombing #disability #google #pentagon

● NEWS ● #CommonDreams ☞ Opinion | More Than 200 Influential Canadians Call On the Federal Government to Fast Track the #Canada #Disability Benefit https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/11/02/more-200-influential-canadians-call-federal-government-fast-track-canada-disability

Opinion | More Than 200 Influential Canadians Call On the Federal Government to Fast Track the Canada Disability Benefit

"Economists predict that poverty in Canada would be reduced by as much as 40 per cent overall by eliminating disability poverty."

I don't want to be strong

#Behinderung #disability

https://twitter.com/zapatistarising/status/1434941309266153478

little signs of #hope for the #end of the tunnel of #averybritishgenocide https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-peoples-organisations-draw-up-10-year-plan-to-tackle-inequality/

#disability #humanrights

Disabled people’s organisations draw up 10-year plan to tackle inequality

Disabled people’s organisations have sketched out a 10-year plan – at a cost of up to £18 million – to tackle the “deep and persistent” inequality, marginalisation and discrimination that is blight…

New device could help visually impaired avoid obstacles, research suggests | Blindness and visual impairment | The Guardian

Researchers in the US have developed a technological aid: a chest-mounted video camera – linked to a processing unit involving a computer-vision algorithm – and a pair of vibrating wristbands.
When the system detects a hazard that the wearer is set to collide with, the wristband on the same side as the hazard vibrates. If the obstacle is straight ahead, both wristbands vibrate.

#technology #tech #health #disability #impairment #VisualImpairment

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jul/22/new-device-could-help-visually-impaired-avoid-obstacles-research-suggests

Ford and Mellon Foundations Expand Initiative for Disabled Artists

#art #scholarshipsandfellowships #mellonfoundation #fordfoundation #disability #coronavirusreopenings #skycubacub #wongalice1974 #lebrechtjames #movies #fashionandapparel #unitedstatesartists #artanddesign #news

Ford and Mellon Foundations Expand Initiative for Disabled Artists

The foundations are adding $5 million to the Disability Futures program, which will continue through 2025 with two more classes of 20 fellows each.

A pic of my beautiful brother, Danny. 35 years ago he contracted a rare condition that left him brain damaged + quadriplegic. Today, he was required to attend a ‘return to work’ meeting or forget his #disability #benefits.

TORY BRITAIN.
#Embarrassing #unacceptable #UKPolitics #RevokeRemainRebuild #Brexit #NorthernIreland #NI #GeneralElection2019 #GE19 #LabourBrexitPolicy #JC4PM #Yellowhammer #UK #GB #UnitedKingdom #GreatBritain #England #Britain #HouseOfCommons #DowningStreetNo10 #Labour #Tories #Tory #Farage #NigelFarage #ProjectFear #Europe #Europa #EuropeanUnion #NoDealBrexit #HardBrexit #WTO #Ireland #Ulster #HardBorder #Backstop #OrderlyBrexit #DownAndOut #London #Scotland #Independence #Economics #Economy #NoDeal #Parliament #Brexit #NoDealBrexit #PoliticsLive 🎩 🍾 😴 💤 #coupdEtat #Brexit #StopBrexit #LostDemocracy #StopTheCoup #Palpatine #Empire #capitalism #corporatocracy #ToryLies #ToriesOut #BrexitChaos #PeoplesVote #democracy #Parliament #LostDemocracy #BorisJohnsonLies #StopTheCoup #LiarLiar #ToryLies #ToriesOut #BrexitChaos #BrexitShambles #PeoplesVote #ConservativesOUT #NHS #SavetheNHS #HedgeFunds

Greetings. I am #newhere, and a gplusrefugee.

Here's a few things about me. There's a chance I'll like you because we share a similarity, there's a chance I'll like you because we have differences, so we start with:

• #xenophile

• #homophile

• #harp is what I do. www.thatharpguy.com and www.thathharpguy.bandcamp.com are recommended to you.

• #humanist #archeology #paleontology #semiotics #astronomy #astrology #atheism #tolkein #sci-fi #musician #anthropology #history #ancienthistory #peace #socialism #ecology #activism #disability #LGBTQ are all things you might find me looking into. This list is by no means complete - I'm a complex being, and enjoy that.

• #breadmaking and #baking and #cuisine are all things I like to do, too. Eating, also.

Your turn. Tell me about you.