Author’s Rob Cross and Karen Dillion’s book, The Microstress Effect talks about how important developing tactics to minimize stress and how relationships can actually be part of your tool kit. Their recommendation, “you don’t need ride of die friends who have your back at all times”. Rather, you can build resilience in small moments of […]
Stickers reduce language barriers With 50,000 Ukranian kids displaced into Italian schools, Save the Children’s new Welcome Stickers are breaking down language barriers. The stickers were distributed to schools to transform keyboards into Cyrillic script—the language in their new home. The Welcome Kit Meditation Mouse Designed for kids this
Typing in Braille A small, handy device that allows blind users to type easily and quickly on smartphones in Braille, Dutch-designed, Hable One has six keys for letters, numbers, and punctuation based on the braille script. Invented to meet the needs of the founder’s grandfather, Hable won the Braille Plume, an award from the Braille […]
In 2019, a study of almost 7 million people in Denmark found that women were diagnosed with hundreds of health conditions when they were, on average, four years older than men. Diagnoses for diabetes came four and a half years later, while cancer was diagnosed in women when they were an average two and a […]
I am a hearing person married to a deaf person. In 2015, I remember going to the midwife clinic for our first baby’s appointment. We arranged for our own sign language interpreter because we knew there would be communication barriers, and that no one else would. When the midwife walked in, we mentioned that we […]
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