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• Man invents device that allows user to control mouse with eyes and mouth

  Solution Shared by Ana Duarte on 2018-04-09 10:48

  

  The GlassOuse is a wearable that looks like glasses and connects to electronics via Bluetooth. It responds to head movements to manipulate the cursor around the screen. It also has a mouth piece that curves in front of the face that works as a button. ...

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• Student creates writing system for the visually impaired

  Solution Shared by Ana Duarte on 2018-06-18 11:42

  

  “It’s my first year in a school that takes part in a project that integrates students with visual impairments into public schools. We have three students, and from daily interactions with them I was very curious and had a lot of questions. What letters ...

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• Graduates team creates an app to help visually impaired in their education

  Solution Shared by Sara Di Fabio on 2020-02-11 10:51

  

  Many visually impaired students from India struggle to find inclusive schools to pursue their education. The main reason relies on the lack of resources of the education system that miss giving these students the support they need. Lack of education ...

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• Couple creates desk to help prevent neck pain

  Solution Shared by Ana Duarte on 2017-07-24 10:47

  

  These desks work by being placed on the normal desks, and they are available on several sizes. Bill founded his own company, Anderlyn Desk Company, in 2007. It all started when Bill had aggravating neck pain by using his regular desk. This caused him ...

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• Software to help blind people learn science

  Solution Shared by Ana Duarte on 2015-11-30 12:30

  

  This student’s invention consists of a graph-deciphering software. The idea for this solution came to him in a calculus class, he said. Tapping into his passion for music, he devised a way to use musical notes to express the up and down slopes of a graph. ...

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• Deaf student invents new scientific sign language terms

  Solution Shared by Ana Duarte on 2019-10-23 10:20

  

  Some scientific words, like “deoxyribonucleotide”, are very difficult to spell in sign language. It was already tough for Liam to keep up with all the college workload, let alone to spell these scientific words. Although there are some British Sign ...

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• Woman who struggled with anxiety creates kit to help other cope with this condition

  Solution Shared by Ana Duarte on 2019-05-28 18:09

  

  The first-year students from 2018 at UW got a mental health first aid kit for the first time, during orientation. The kit is called PASS (panic, anxiety and stress support) was created by Tina Chan, who suffered from anxiety. They have been distributed to ...

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• Teacher develops a math app for students with learning disabilities

  Solution Shared by Sara Di Fabio on 2020-05-11 10:37

  

  Robin Cianchoso teaches middle school students with learning disabilities at St. Francis of Asissi Catholic High School in Memphis, Tennessee. To help her students remember math concepts, Robin created a math app with her brother, Chris Moore. During her ...

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• Teacher creates device to help blind student in class

  Solution Shared by Ana Duarte on 2018-05-15 15:40

  

  Alex Williams was a 21-year-old student of Colin who was having trouble in classes because she was blind and her screen-reader was not compatible with images. And this was making the teacher trying to find another way to explain her some theories about ...

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• Woman invents a tablet for blind people

  Solution Shared by Ana Duarte on 2017-06-20 13:54

  

  This device works by allowing users to upload text files, such as novels, using a USB stick. The text then appears in Braille via small physical ‘bubbles’ that rise and fall on demand. It all started when the inventor was studying industrial engineering ...

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