Tag: Augmentative Alternative Communication

The Tyranny of Routine

The lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you’re writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don’t have to do it over. Gary Oldman, Esquire Magazine, What I’ve Learned, December 16, 2011 Technology is not…

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The Courage to Stop

“Your genetic energy level enables your lack of discipline,” Rochelle continued. “Instead of leading a disciplined life, you lead a busy life.” The Stop Doing List by Jim Collins USA Today, December 30, 2003 Digital Scribbler recently completed the first step in our effort to develop a transformational Augmentative and Alternative Communications (AAC) App. We…

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Reflections on Hacking Autism

Americans’ entrepreneurial self-esteem is now embodied by Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon. These are indeed fabulously innovative companies with world-beating business models. Yet one wonders if they are increasingly the exception, not the rule, and if the passing of Mr Jobs is simply the most prominent example of a broader decline in American entrepreneurship. Steve…

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Education + Technology = Hope

A child miseducated is a child lost John F. Kennedy A significant number of social and economic maladies afflicting every country can be attributed to a lack of education. Nearly every negative social and economic statistic would decline, if we were more effective in educating our populations. Education is powerful, it changes lives. The education…