A current hot topic in the assistive technology arena is voice banking. Voice banking is the process of digitally saving your voice for future use on a speech generating device (SGD). Individuals who may lose their voice due to motor neuron disease or ALS can consider...
If you’ve read about ALS and Steve Gleason, wondering what you can do to support the fight against ALS and to help those people living with the disease, here is your chance to take action: Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA-05) recently introduced the...
In September, we posted a blog about a legislative threat facing people living with ALS. According to a policy review by the Center for Medicare Advocacy, assistive devices capable of being adapted for non-speech uses (such as email and Internet access) would not be...
By now, everyone from most of your Facebook friends to Bill Gates has accepted – and filmed – the Ice Bucket Challenge. The extremely viral fundraiser, in which participants dump buckets of freezing water over their heads and commit to donating money to fund ALS, has...
Every 90 minutes, an American dies from ALS. As tens of thousands of people continue to take the Ice Bucket Challenge, that chilling statistic is what Steve Gleason wants you to remember, long after the last bucket of ice-cold water has been dumped. In 2011,...
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