Category: Disabilities
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Multi-Disciplinary Artist Chella Man – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Fluidity informs almost everything about Chella Man: his painting, performance and sculptural works and his identity as a deaf, trans-masculine, Jewish and Chinese artist. An actor, activist and model and former contributor to them and designer for Opening Ceremony, Man is a multi-hyphenate whose ever-growing list of titles further supports his practice of investigating…
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Making Surfing Accessible to Children with Disabilities – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Founded by Chris Antao, Gnome Surf is a Little Compton, Rhode Island-based non-profit making surfing accessible to kids with disabilities. Through individualized, inclusive programming for students with ADHD, autism, down syndrome, anxiety and adults who struggle with addiction, Gnome utilizes surf therapy—a method of intervention that combines the peacefulness of nature with physical and…
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Link About It: This Week’s Picks
[ad_1] Photographing the Milky Way, using lava as a building material, studying alien signals and more from around the web New Study Sheds Light on 45-Year-Old Alien Signal Mystery On 15 August 1977 at 10:16PM EST, Ohio State University’s Big Ear radio telescope scanned the Sagittarius constellation and detected a signal that was 20 times…
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Microsoft Redesigns the Mouse for People with Disabilities – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Around one billion people in the world live with a disability, which is why Microsoft is launching an Adaptive Accessories range that provides a more accessible keyboard and mouse experience for PC or iPhone. The kit (which will be available later this year) has three elements: a square mouse, a button with programmable pressure sensors and…
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Dana Kearley’s Artwork Explores and De-Stigmatizes Disability and Chronic Illness – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Through her bright, cute and cheerful illustrations, Vancouver-based artist Dana Kearley explores and communicates the many nuanced ways that people exist and move through the world with disabilities and illness—de-stigmatizing it along the way. Her works often feature worms, snails and turtles, animals that “symbolize the way some of us move though the world,…