Assistive Technology Links

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Assistive Technology Links

	Smart Thinking - Information about adaptive technology including assistive technology and smart homes to help disabled and older people living at home.
	AbilityNet - National charity providing expertise on computing and disability. Need assessment, technical expertise, advice and support plus adapted computer equipment for people with a wide range of disabilities.
	EmPower - Charities consortium of users of prosthetics, orthotics, wheelchairs, electronic assistive technology and rehabilitation services. Campaigns, lobbying materials and forum.
	British Computer Association of the Blind - Self-help group of visually impaired computer professionals and users. Training, newsletter, courses and a CD called Guide Cats for the Blind.
	Ace Centre North - Supports communication and learning through the use of Assistive Technology (AT) and Alternative & Augmentative Communication (ACC) systems. Includes training, network days and resource bank.
	Foundation for Assistive Technology - For all those with an interest or involved in the development of assistive technology. With database of research projects, AT events, user forum and news.
	Adorn, Equip - Examines issues around the design of equipment and accessories used by disabled people. Online version of the touring exhibition, produced by Ju Gosling during an artist's residency at Oriel 31.
	Wheelchair Information Guide - Independent guide including product specifications from individual who works for an officially recognised wheelchair repairer.
	Communication Matters - National voluntary organisation of members concerned with augmentative and alternative communications. Articles, journals and symposia.
	ACE Centre Advisory Trust, Oxford - Assessment, advice and training in the use of technology for young people with physical and communication difficulties. Information on assessments, software, training and publications.
	Integrating Community Equipment Services (ICES) - Initiative across health and social care to develop better equipment services for disabled people. Documents, forums, events and detailed articles on various equipment, needs and shortfalls in service.
	Remap - A network of volunteer engineers and craftsmen who make free one off aids for disabled people. Case histories, donations, resources and yearbook.
	Demand - Encourages the design and manufacture of equipment for disabled people and provides provides specially designed equipment.
	Remap Cleveland - Volunteers who design and make aids for the disabled. Information about local activities, equipment provided and a message board.
	Remap Essex West - Volunteers making bespoke devices for disabled people. How we work, case studies and donation requests. Includes Essex Disabled People's Association Annual Review.
	Remap Leeds and Bradford Panel - Volunteers design and supply specialised equipment for essential daily needs and recreational activities. Examples, products, news and funding.
	Remap Swindon - Volunteers designing and making free technical equipment for disabled people where no commercial alternative exists. Includes examples and membership details.
	Shropshire Wheelchair Users Group - Information on NHS wheelchairs, models available, wheelchair problems and local access campaigns.
	Disability Equipment Register - Allows subscribers to buy and sell used equipment, which is advertised in their magazine and online.
	National Centre for Tactile Diagrams - Based at the University of Hertfordshire, providing tactile diagrams maps and pictures, with supporting materials, for blind and visually impaired people for education, work and leisure.
	MERU (Medical Engineering Resource Unit) - A registered charity which makes bespoke equipment for disabled children, including computer interface equipment.
	Just Mobility - Used vehicle and equipment sale board and a directory of businesses supplying people with disabilities.
	SoundLinks - Specialists in audio and speech access offering training and consultancy in how to work effectively with a range of adaptive and mainstream technology.
	Next Generation Prosthetics - Hot Wiring - Proposal by an engineering student for a new concept in limb prosthetics.
	eQuip For Life - Organisation offering free classified ads for people buying or selling used disabled equipment. Supported by the National Lottery.

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(Andy Warhol) Assistive Technology Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. -- Paul Boese "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. -- Tom Robbins Assistive Technology "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. - Lewis Perelman The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Assistive Technology God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her. -- Benjamin Tillett The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on! -- Rory Bremner "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman Assistive Technology You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. -- Hermann Weyl One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. -- Virginia Woolf Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. -- Alphonse Allais Assistive Technology Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. -- Samuel Butler A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. -- St. Augustine To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Assistive Technology Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory. -- Albert Schweitzer Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball. -- Deborah Tan "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Assistive Technology Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. -- Bill Moyers When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. -- Marcel Achard Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. - Saint Augustine Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest. -- H. L. Mencken Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. -- Chinese Proverb Assistive Technology There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry. -- George Armstrong Custer We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him. -- Shelley Winters The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. -- ROBERT FROST Assistive Technology Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry James "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are... -- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Assistive Technology First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it. -- Anonymous Assistive Technology Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Anonymous It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. -- St. Francis of Assisi The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue. -- Anonymous Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Assistive Technology I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals... -- G. K. Chesterton Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B.F. Skinner "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (Fran�ois VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Assistive Technology Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. -- Jim Backus "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. -- Edward P. Tryon Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand. -- Charles Pierce "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Assistive Technology The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't." -- Ernest Rutherford Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance. -- King George V If you can't convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S. Truman Assistive Technology The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. -- Nicholas Murray Butler Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. -- Colin Powell A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Assistive Technology Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. -- Roger Babson Assistive Technology "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. -- Gloria Vanderbilt After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post. -- Philip Streifer, Superintendent A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -- Edward Abbey The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Assistive Technology Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. -- James Baldwin When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. -- Helen Rowland A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee. -- Polish proverb Assistive Technology The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks, in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on the fl Silence is argument carried out by other means. - ErnestoCheGuevara "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Assistive Technology Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. -- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist. -- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Assistive Technology Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link |