I ask you to sign up as a supporter of this campaign, at www.everyaustraliancounts.com.au. This new scheme is not just for people who have disabilities now but to make it easier for anybody in the Australian community who may acquire … Continue reading →
Bob Segalman writes, I have always looked up to Governor Brown’s appointment of Ed Roberts as Director of the Department of Rehabilitation in the early 1970s. At that time, I was one of the first state employees with significant Cerebral … Continue reading →
I just purchased TextAloud and I thought that you would like to get it too. TextAloud uses computer voices to read anything aloud on your PC or makes MP3 files so you can listen to your reading portably. I use … Continue reading →
Are you an AAC user? Do you ever use the telephone, send text messages or emails, use text chat or even video calls? If so, you might be interested in being part of a research project exploring various telecommunications services. … Continue reading →
Once again I used the morning on Tuesday to worked on my presentation. We used the bar of the hotel as an office space and yesterday as we entered into the bar we got chatting with Omar and Khalid from … Continue reading →
Monday morning we worked on my presentation for the ISAAC conference next week. I finally felt that it was coming together. In the afternoon we went to the Warsaw Uprising Musuem. Aldona accompanied us to make sure we got there … Continue reading →
Sunday we got up reasonably early and tidied ourselves up to go to church. We’d found the Warsaw International Church and decided to check it out. The majority of the country is Catholic so it was going to be tricky … Continue reading →
Ferg got woken up on Saturday morning by an SMS message from Margaret (our Polish Travel agent) at 10 am. I was still asleep too. We were so sluggish that morning that we missed the hotel breakfast altogether. It finishes … Continue reading →
On Friday night we went out for dinner with Aldona who is a speech pathologist that I met online through a report she wrote on an Eastern European AAC Conference and also via a recommendation from my friend Meredith from … Continue reading →
Don’t worry this one is not a marathon. It’s just a walk in the park. No, really. Today we met Anna again and walked along the Royal Route past palace after palace. I must admit I couldn’t quite keep up … Continue reading →