Telegraph | Entertainment | Cry of an enfant sauvage

This doesn't have anything to do with disbilaties perse, but it is interesting.

Telegraph | Entertainment | Cry of an enfant sauvage
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Boing Boing: Biofeedback game where you compete to relax

Boing Boing: Biofeedback game where you compete to relax
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Google Accessible Search

Google has a new site for the visually impaired.

Google Accessible Search
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Like Having a Secretary in Your PC - New York Times

This app is what opens the universe for quadriplegics. Anything from blogging to making music becomes possible. Right now, the only thing keeping a quadriplegic from being 100% capable of doing photography without having an attendant enter the workflow would be wireless transfer. Once that happens, expect Flickr to be over-run with photos from quadriplegics.

Pogue also points out that:

NatSpeak 9 requires no training at all.

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Microsoft says that Windows Vista, when it makes its debut next year, will come with built-in dictation software.

Apparently, you can get the software for as little as $100 with upgrades for more features.

The "Professional" version, which is what quadriplegics need, costs $900. That seems like a lot, but it really does open up a new world for quadriplegics, so if you know one, take up a collection and buy them a computer capable of running this software and a broadband connection.

Like Having a Secretary in Your PC - New York Times
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Welcome to the Drake Music Project - Drake Music Project

The Drake Music Project is something I hadn't seen before. I am definitely excited to know about this -- being a frustrated musician myself. Check it out for yourself. Let us know what you think about this.
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Naturalist Robin Buxton polio made him disabled

I found the Article story, I mentioned on the previous entry about the nuturalist Robin Buxton, if you would like to see it, I recommend, to get the film of this extraordinary expedition, you can get it here

African-born naturalist Robin Buxton, an expert on the ecology of Kilimanjaro who has been permanently disabled from polio since age two and whose first effort to summit Kilimanjaro borders on the heroic. Also on the expedition are German geologist Volker Lorenz, a world authority on volcanoes; British geologist and team leader Kevin Docherty; and Tanzanian park ranger and naturalist Michael Ngatolowa

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Oxford's Kosakowski a world-class athlete

"When I see amazing people accomplish so much, it makes me feel like I don't have a disability " said Kosakowski", who sports an artificial arm"

When I read stories like this. I feel so small, learning about how people with real disabilities are accomplishing great things. PWDs are so amazing can teach a lesson on how to a appreciate life to the fullest. We shouldn't complain about little things in life. I recalled just couple days ago I saw a documentary on PBS about how this Naturalist who Polio destroy his gate. Now using crushes, try to climb Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa. He did tried but, come a bit short, the heavy snow, and the success of the spedition. Making to stop a few miles from the objective. I was so amazing to see this man so determined to climb the highest pick. Will try to find that story, I'm very poor on telling the story.
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Make Way for The Sidewalk SUV

Submitted by DavCat
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The power scooter is an increasingly ubiquitous sight, with an estimated 1.2 million in use nationwide. But while the $1,000-plus vehicles have been hailed as a boon for the infirm and the elderly, they are now finding a new constituency: able-bodied people who simply don't feel like walking.

Yes, I guess, it is true nowadays, just about anybody don't feeling like walking can get scooter, Sure, why not, we want be the fatest and laziest nation.
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Chauvi's Magazine

Chauvi's Magazine
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What Sept. 11 means to the disabled

Submitted by DavCat
ChooseAbility's friend

Here is something very interesting to read, Welcome to read it!
Here are thoughts and ideas from an author in New Mexico. Barbara McKee,
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