University of Michigan EECS Newsletter
09/2015

Articles:
Helping to Bring Back Lost Language - page 29
In a project in collaboration with the U-M Center for Language and Literacy,
Prof. Emily Mower Provost is seeking to reinforce and extend the results of
an intensive in-patient treatment program for people with brain injury or
stroke resulting in language loss through the use of technology that allows
patients the means to practice more and therapists with objective cues that
they can use to assess progress.

New Center Develops Technologies to Help Youths with Disabilities - page 31
A $4.5 million federal grant will allow U-M researchers to study how
technology – including apps for smartphones and tablets, cloud devices, an
educational web/social media site, and a U-M-developed video game – may help
young adults with spinal cord dysfunction and neurodevelopmental disabilities
to improve their health and become more independent as they mature.

A Focus on Assistive Technologies - page 31
Dr. David Chesney’s software engineering classes are often sought out by
students who want to work at the intersection of technology and childhood
disability. Dr. Chesney has forged bonds with the U-M Mott Children’s
Hospital, other U-M units, and with technology firms that have allowed his
students to conceive and engineer real assistive technology products for use
by real patients with disabilities.

Students Build Apps for Grace - page 107
Students designed assistive technologies for Grace, a young woman with
athetoid cerebral palsy. The projects were designed to help Grace more easily
communicate and engage in social activities.

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