Accessibility Minute with Laura Medcalf

Hey there! Welcome to Accessibility Minute, your weekly look at Assistive Technology, those clever tools and devices designed to help people who have difficulties with vision, mobility, hearing or other special needs! Do you and/or your partner snore?  Sometimes individuals only snore when they’re on their back.  Philips offers a potential solution for positional snoring […]

Hey there! Welcome to Accessibility Minute, your weekly look at Assistive Technology, those clever tools and devices designed to help people who have difficulties with vision, mobility, hearing or other special needs! BreatheWell Wear is an app for Android Wear smartwatches.  According to the app’s description, it is designed to “help individuals with mild traumatic […]

SpeechBlubs: Hey there! Welcome to Accessibility Minute, your weekly look at Assistive Technology, those clever tools and devices designed to help people who have difficulties with vision, mobility, hearing or other special needs! Looking for a fun, interactive speech therapy app for children.  The Speech Blubs app comes with over 1500 exercises and activities to […]

GiggleGhosts – Counting Fun! Hey there! Welcome to Accessibility Minute, your weekly look at Assistive Technology, those clever tools and devices designed to help people who have difficulties with vision, mobility, hearing or other special needs! Looking for a fun, interactive counting game?  Giggle Ghosts – Counting Fun! is a math counting app for individuals […]

PicoToons Coloring Book: Hey there! Welcome to Accessibility Minute, your weekly look at Assistive Technology, those clever tools and devices designed to help people who have difficulties with vision, mobility, hearing or other special needs! Children of all ages love coloring! It’s become common even for adults to color (hence the recent trend of adult […]

Hey there! Welcome to Accessibility Minute, your weekly look at Assistive Technology, those clever tools and devices designed to help people who have difficulties with vision, mobility, hearing or other special needs! Are you looking for an audiobook service for your child? Check out the Tales2go app! According to its description, “Tales2go makes it easy […]

Hey there! Welcome to Accessibility Minute, your weekly look at Assistive Technology, those clever tools and devices designed to help people who have difficulties with vision, mobility, hearing or other special needs! Looking for a way to heat your shoes in this cold weather? Check out the ThermaCell Rechargeable Heated Insole! The ThermaCell Heated Insole […]

Hey there! Welcome to Accessibility Minute, your weekly look at Assistive Technology, those clever tools and devices designed to help people who have difficulties with vision, mobility, hearing or other special needs! Alright, so since the holiday season is among us, I will likely be talking about a lot of holiday toy ideas for your […]

Hey there! Welcome to Accessibility Minute, your weekly look at Assistive Technology, those clever tools and devices designed to help people who have difficulties with vision, mobility, hearing or other special needs! A few episodes ago, I talked about PTSD Coach, which is a free app that can help track and manage PTSD symptoms. The […]

Hey there! Welcome to Accessibility Minute, your weekly look at Assistive Technology, those clever tools and devices designed to help people who have difficulties with vision, mobility, hearing or other special needs! Looking for a way to translate your speech into picture symbols? Symbol-It is an app that does just that! Symbol-It offers real-time speech […]