My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.
–Stephen Hawking
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The Bradley Timepiece: Tell Time By Touch
Watches designed for visually impaired people often look like any other watch. But they usually have a button on them that tells the time out loud. The voice also sounds like a robot. And, some blind people dislike talking watches because it draws attention to them.
To solve this attention-getting problem, the company Eone Time has designed a timepiece to help people avoid the attention and just tell the time.
Called the Bradley Timepiece, it uses magnets, and two moving ball bearings, to allow people to tell time by touch. The innovative design is winning praise for its lack of sound and its different appearance.
The timepiece is named after retired US Navy Lt. Bradley Snyder. While serving in Afghanistan in 2011, he lost his sight in an IED explosion.
Chemo Brain
College disability support providers may not often serve a student who has had cancer or who is in the midst of cancer treatment and thus be uncertain how best to accommodate some of the needs the student identifies.
The American Cancer Society has useful resources at its site, including an informative section about the mental cloudiness cancer survivors experience, known as “chemo brain” Although somewhat lengthy, the content can help disabilities service providers be more aware of what individuals who have had cancer or who are experiencing cancer may be coping with.
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