I’ve been thinking a lot about what information this column could bring you next. I’ve covered a lot of ground here, and want to keep going with content that really matters. Most of us, whether we have a disability or a chronic illness, or we’re close to someone…
It’s confession time: one of my favorite things to do is to spend hours online watching videos about how people get ready in the morning, or tutorials about how people organize their planner or clean their bathroom. I look up organization ideas on Pinterest. I love it, I…
It feels so weird to still be writing after the month I’ve had. There were many times this month when I’ve wondered if and when I would continue writing or doing anything for that matter. In short, my physical, mental, and emotional health has tanked. I’ve been forced…
Someone once referred to my boyfriend and I as “relationship goals,” which in the age of hashtags and going viral, sounds like the equivalent of getting a ton of likes on something you post, etc. Something told me I should have been ecstatic, but somehow I also sensed…
Neonatal-perinatal specialist Dr. Barbara Stonestreet, of Women & Infants Hospital, in Rhode Island, received two grants recently from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to determine the most effective treatments for full-term and premature infants exposed to hypoxia-ischemia and other perinatal brain injuries. Hypoxia-ischemia (HI) is described as insufficient blood flow to…
The Los Angeles-based University of Southern California (USC) Center for Body Computing (CBC) and the Special Hope Foundation announced a collaborative partnership to advance the development of digital health tools and services to meet the needs of persons with disabilities. The CBC is the digital health innovation…
When I Googled the term “soul food,” I was surprised that a list of actual food items and places to eat came up; when I searched “define soul food,” I was even more surprised to find that soul food is actually defined as “traditional southern African-American food.” I…
Technology is such a huge part of everyone’s life today — we are connected from the moment we wake up until the moment we fall asleep — and technology today is fast and ever-changing, like fashion trends, things come and go at an alarming rate. But every now…
VocaliD and Tobii Dynavox recently announced a collaborative agreement to develop a new generation of personalized assistive communication devices (ACDs) for people with serious speech impairments, including some patients with cerebral palsy. The partnership will provide recent and long-term users of Tobii Dynavox devices the option of speaking through their own VocaliD…
An enzyme called hyaluronidase might reduce muscle stiffness in people with cerebral palsy and other neurological injuries, without causing the muscles to become weak — a major drawback of current approaches to treating muscle stiffness. The study, “Human Recombinant Hyaluronidase Injections For Upper Limb Muscle Stiffness in…