Columns
Editor's Column
by Tim Benjamin
This month Access Press is
looking at myasthenia gravis.
When we first started talking about this disability we were not too
sure where we would find someone with myasthenia gravis for a personal
view; none of us seemed to know much about it. We all decided to
do a little research and spend some time thinking about it, and we
acknowledged that maybe we would just have to highlight a more well-known
disability. ... read
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Home Access Answers
Bigger Doesn’t
Always Mean Better
by Jane Hampton, CID, Access Specialist
Dear Jane,
I live alone in a small town-house.
I have multiple sclerosis, and there are good days and bad days.
There are days when I am very fatigued and do not have a lot of strength
to reach items in my upper wall cabinets or at the back of shelves
in base cabinets. There isn’t any room to enlarge the kitchen
... read
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Living Independently
Finding a "House Call" in
the Twin Cities
by Lisa Schmidtke
Aids for daily living, adaptive
equipment,
assistive medical devices…three terms used to describe things that help
you put your socks on & pick up stuff that you drop. But it goes far beyond
that ... read
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Disability Technology
Breaking the Sound Barrier
by Jen Mundl
Lisa sat quietly in the classroom
not participating in conversations around her. Her teacher originally
thought Lisa was shy, until one day he was talking to her and she
did not respond. A hearing test showed a significant hearing loss
to where she was unable to recognize sounds and language. That explained
a lot ... read more from Jen >
