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Ask 11-year-old Olivia Hawley what she wants to be when she grows up, and you’ll get an impressive answer: “I wanna be a neurosurgeon.” Achieving that goal would mean a […]

Written by Scott Thomas Eye gaze, switch control, and similar technologies hold great value, permitting people with little to no function of their extremities or voice to live productively; unfortunately, […]

Finding stable employment has not been easy for Robert Wilkins, 31.  Diagnosed with Bardet–Biedl syndrome, along with two of his five siblings, Wilkins has low vision.  His quest for work […]

By Scott Thomas MonTECH Four years ago, in my first months of using an eye-operated computer to communicate, I was conversing with my parents in a crowded restaurant. During our […]

 A 69-year-old Latin percussionist came to technology consultant Ed Worrell to learn how to send emails.  They worked together for the next several years, achieving one simple goal then moving […]

Don’t buy a bigger system than you need. If you want to use Facebook and send emails, you don’t need a full-blown desktop system.  A tablet will do. Touch screens […]

MonTECH’s Robert Dutreix tested logistics software, engineered live sound for the Austin City Limits Music Festival, and worked a 120-channel soundboard that had previously been used to record sound for […]

As a vision rehabilitation therapist with impaired vision, Shannon Payne doesn’t just talk the talk; she lives it.  “My colleagues can go home and get away from the world of […]

“For a lot of people, an amputation is the beginning of something terrible,” Sherene Ricci explains.  “For me, it was the end of something terrible. I could finally relax and […]