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Tag: Assistive Technology

Visual Disabilities wins federal grant to train specialists to support adults

January 15, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, SEED

NIU’s Department of Special and Early Education long has enjoyed U.S. Department of Education grants to train professionals to work with people who are blind or visually disabled. For more than 40 consecutive years, those federal dollars have supported NIU’s preparation of

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Wayfinding: CATIS students navigate campus with latest assistive technology

June 13, 2018 Mark McGowan enewsletter, SEED

Modern assistive technology that helps people who are blind to navigate the world is nothing short of amazing. But it’s not perfect – yet. Try traversing a college campus, for example, through the web of winding sidewalks and grassy expanses. Even the

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Project VITALL group explores Consumer Electronics Show

January 23, 2018 Mark McGowan enewsletter, SEED

Stacy Kelly wants a robot. The associate professor in the NIU College of Education’s Vision Program came to that realization after she and a trio of graduate students in the Project VITALL master’s degree program spent three days at the annual Consumer

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Visual Impairments grad student hopes to improve lives, system

August 3, 2017 Mark McGowan enewsletter, SEED

When Lizzy Koster graduated from Hendrix College in Arkansas, she took a job as an assistant at a political consulting firm. It didn’t last long. “Politics wasn’t what I imagined it would be,” says Koster, an NIU College of Education graduate student

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NIU Visual Disabilities Program awarded $1.25 million federal grant

May 6, 2016 admin-salvani Alumni eNewsletter, SEED

(This story originally appeared on NIU Today) Want a challenging and rewarding career with guaranteed employment and free tuition? Thanks to a five-year $1.25 million grant recently awarded to NIU by the U.S. Department of Education, the Visual Disabilities Program of the

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