Archive for October, 2008

Interview With A Cyborg (Forbes)

Gordon, a robot controlled by a living braid, may be the future of stroke and brain disease treatment.

Picking Up Good Vibrations (With Limitations) (The Hendersonville Times-News)

Hearing aids provide many benefits, but they do not restore hearing to normal, and that is a tough lesson to learn for many people who use them.

Rachel Boyd: An Obama Supporter Visits Ohio McCain Rally (HuffingtonPost)

I was there when McCain came to my town. It is the first time that a presidential candidate came to our little town in northwest...

Picking Up Good Vibrations (With Limitations) (The Hendersonville Times-News)

Hearing aids provide many benefits, but they do not restore hearing to normal, and that is a tough lesson to learn for many people who use them.

School aids preschoolers with impaired hearing (Seattle Times)

In teacher Lisa Hough's classroom, pictures of letters loaded in a choo-choo train chug across the wall, and the clatter of rambunctious preschoolers livens the morning lessons. It's a typical preschool class almost.

School aids preschoolers with impaired hearing (The Columbian)

In teacher Lisa Hough's classroom, pictures of letters loaded in a choo-choo train chug across the wall, and the clatter of rambunctious preschoolers livens the morning lessons. It's a typical...

Interview With A Cyborg (Forbes)

Gordon, a robot controlled by a living braid, may be the future of stroke and brain disease treatment.

It’s special education, indeed (Tacoma News Tribune)

In teacher Lisa Hough's classroom, pictures of letters loaded in a choo-choo train chug across the wall, and the clatter of rambunctious preschoolers livens the morning lessons.

County Schools Celebrate Character Counts Winners (The Valley Banner)

 “Character Counts,” the Rockingham County schools’ program designed to instill high qualities of character into each child in the school system, held its annual awards banquet last week to recognize those who had been judged as students with outstanding character. Mike Schikman of WSVA radio provided a welcome for

Shen woman can ‘hear you now’ (Southwest Iowa News)

Imagine not being able to hear birds chirping or the wind blow. To live an existence encased in a world with little or no sound. That's how life was for Wilma Sparks of Shenandoah for nearly 40 years, until a cochlear implant gave her the miracle of hearing.