Jan 2, 2018 | Accessibility, SCI
ListenBALTIMORE (AP) — A day after Oded Ben Dov appeared on Israeli television to promote his video game technology, which allowed players to control their games by moving their heads, a viewer called him with another suggestion for the software. “I can’t move my arms...
Jul 12, 2017 | Community, SCI
ListenThe Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol (A/RES/61/106) was adopted on 13 December 2006 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, and was opened for signature on 30 March 2007. There were 82 signatories to the...
Apr 21, 2017 | Accessibility, News, SCI
ListenThe national sports stadium in Curacao recently inaugurated a special seating area which is accessible for people in Wheelchair. We are honored to have been invited to cheer for our national athletes during the Carifta Games as the first peoples that used the...
Apr 21, 2017 | News, Research & Cure
Listen When University of Alberta spinal cord researcher Karim Fouad began his career, not a lot was known about injuries of the central nervous system—the brain and spinal cord. “What researchers did know is that nerve cells don’t regrow,” said Fouad, who was...
Apr 21, 2017 | Community, News
Listen Lenin Moreno was declared the winner of Ecuador’s April 2 presidential election, becoming the first person with paraplegia to be elected as a head of state in Latin America. Moreno, who served as vice-president of Ecuador under Raphael Correa from...
Apr 20, 2017 | Accessibility, News
Listen People with disabilities spend on average almost 30% more traveling than tourists without special needs , according to data from the Observatory of Accessibility of Tourism in Spain, presented this Friday in Fitur the head of the Department of Culture and...
