Information about
the
RESNA SIG-11 Distribution List
It all started in 1985 when the
RESNA Special Interest Groups were conceived. I was selected to be the first
Chair of SIG-11, covering Computer Applications. In those early days before the
Internet, I mailed paper information the the SIG membership. As more members
got online, I started sending information by email.
Over the last nineteen years I have
continued to email information of interest to SIG members. For historic
reasons, this is called the RESNA SIG-11 Dist List. ["Dist" is short for
"Distribution.]
The emails include current news
items, research breakthroughs, product announcements, and public interest
stories involving disability, rehabilitation engineering, and assistive
technology (especially computer applications) that I find in magazines, email I
receive, and from other sources.
I try to limit the material to a
couple of paragraphs and provide the url of source article as well as related
links. I typically send out two emailings each weekday.
If you find an item that you would
like to share with the Distribution List, please email its url to me for
dissemination to the SIG. I will credit you for your submission.
A sample article is included
below.
All RESNA members who are signed up
for the Communication Technologies and Computer Access SIG are eligible for
this free exclusive benefit.
As I keep my own list of SIG
members, it may not accurately reflect the current SIG membership.
How to
Subscribe If you are:
- a RESNA member and
- belong to the Communication
Technologies and Computer Access SIG and
- don't already receive these
emails and
- would like to receive these
emails in the future
please contact me by email so I can
add you to my database. If you
are:
- a RESNA member and
- NOT currently a Communication
Technologies and Computer Access SIG member and
- would like to receive these
emails in the future
please contact the RESNA office and
request to join the SIG. Contact me when you have achieved SIG membership (as
confirmed in the online RESNA Member Directory).
If you already receive these
emails, you will continue to do so - you need not send a request. To insure
future delivery, please keep your RESNA and SIG memberships up to
date.
Disclaimer
Please keep this
disclaimer in mind when reading any SIG-11 Distribution Group
emailing:
This material is being provided
for informational and educational purposes only. It does not constitute an
endorsement of a particular policy, product, position, issue, conference,
presentation, research, website, or therapy by me, the Communication
Technologies and Computer Access SIG, RESNA, or any other agency, company,
organization, or individual.
I have recently posted past emails
online. You may search the archives of the RESNA SIG-11 Distribution List
here.
Please feel free to forward any
Distribution List material to your colleagues, You might take the opportunity
to promote RESNA, describe the many benefits of being a Communication
Technologies and Computer Access member, and explain the opportunities for
education and networking at the annual conference.
When your RESNA membership comes up
for renewal, please remember to indicate the Communication Technologies and
Computer Access SIG on the form to continue your SIG participation and your
Distribution List email benefits.
Thank you for your support of RESNA
and the Communication Technologies and Computer Access SIG.
Dave
Jaffe
davejaffe@stanford.edu
Sample
Article
Woman builds prosthetic Lego leg
From: KCTV - 07/03/2013
By: Tanita Gaither
One woman who has used her own injury to embrace and inspire the amputee
community made something really cool after being dared to.
Occupational therapist and clinical researcher Christina Stephens, of St.
Louis, made a prosthetic leg out of Legos. Stephens recorded the two-day
process from beginning to end and put it on YouTube. She said it took two
hours to fit the Lego prosthetic on to herself, and she ends the video
modeling the creation beside her own prosthetic.
Read the entire article and view a video (5:41) at:
http://www.kctv5.com/story/22758530/woman-builds-prosthetic-lego-leg
Links:
AmputeeOT: How a definitive carbon fiber prosthetic leg works (video 8:50)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln7vow0pxXY#at=337
An update on my foot - 02/13/2013
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wwjtd/2013/02/an-update-on-my-foot/
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