3 Ways We Provide Accommodations for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

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September is National Deaf Awareness month. One of the goals of the month and the International Week of the Deaf is to gain greater understanding of the American Deaf and Hard of Hearing community and its culture and heritage. At Applied Development, we believe in this goal. Our mission is to champion the rights of […]

How Technology is Changing Accessibility

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Assistive technology describes any tool that assists people with diverse abilities to accomplish tasks. While we might immediately think of modern technology, assistive tech goes back much further and has impacted the lives of people of every ability. In 1808, Pellegrino Turri invented the one of the earliest typewriters to assist his friend to write more […]