by Belo Cipriani | Nov 19, 2020 | Adaptive Technology, Guest Post, The Disability Tribune
By Aryan Magandia Parkinson’s disease (PD) is one of those conditions that affects a person’s quality of life in many ways. This year, 2020, researchers estimate almost 1 million people will be living with this disease according to the Parkinson’s Foundation. Although...
by Belo Cipriani | Jul 22, 2015 | Adaptive Technology, Blind Technology, Interviews, Mobility/ Disability, Visually Impaired
Today on The Disability Tribune, we welcome the first blind realtor in the Bay Area, Jim Blacksten. Belo Cipriani: Where are you from and where do you live now? Jim Blacksten: I was born in Oroville, California. I attended junior high and senior high school in Chico...
by Belo Cipriani | Jan 14, 2015 | Adaptive Technology, Interviews, Writing
Today on The Disability Tribune we welcome author, artist, poet and essayist Ashok Rajamani, author of the memoir The Day My Brain Exploded: A True Story, which chronicles a near-fatal cerebral hemorrhagic stroke he suffered at the age of 25, leaving him with bisected...
by Belo Cipriani | Sep 3, 2014 | Adaptive Technology, Blind Technology, Interviews, Mobility/ Disability
This week on The Disability Tribune, we turn our attention to the FingerReader, from MIT Media Lab. “The FingerReader is a wearable device that assists in reading printed text. It is a tool both for visually impaired people that require help with accessing...
by Belo Cipriani | Aug 13, 2014 | Adaptive Technology, Interviews, Mobility/ Disability, Writing
Today on The Disability Tribune we welcome chef and writer Christine Ha, who was the first blind contestant on Fox’s reality cooking show MasterChef, and the winner of its third season in 2012. She is also the author of the cookbook Recipes from My Home Kitchen:...
by Belo Cipriani | Jun 18, 2014 | Adaptive Technology, Employment, Mobility/ Disability, Writing
Today on The Disability Tribune, we are excited to share a guest post written by disability journalist Robert Kingett. The paratransit driver lurches to a stop outside the Tribune Towers in downtown Chicago, but I don’t hear the driver bark my name because I am...
