O’Brien, a chemistry professor who lives in USA, came up with the book idea in 2006. He later came up with the idea to develop a mystery series, drawing inspiration from his and his family’s lives. “CJ and the Angel Kids” is a collection centering on five kids who each live with a disability. The main character, CJ, has cerebral palsy, like Connor.

While Hannah and Aaron did extensive research on Type 1 diabetes, they noticed several common themes. Among these trends included engaging children using a story- or game-based model.

For her the most difficult part of her illness wasn’t losing her hair, or being erroneously called ‘sir’ by Starbucks baristas, or sickness from chemo, it was the loneliness and isolation she felt when many of her close friends and family members disappeared because they didn’t know what to say, or said the absolute wrong thing without realizing it.

The Smartstones Touch connects to an iPhone or an Android device using Bluetooth Low Energy. It is simple to program and handle. The first step is to download the company’s app, called “Prose” onto an iPhone or Android device, which in turn programs the Smartstones. That opens up a list of 12 gestures. (Many more are planned.) Once a gesture is selected, any message can be created for it. The Smartstones send verbal messages to phones, using voices like those on GPS services. They can be programmed in 40 languages. They send sounds and lights to other Smartstones.

Shahmaz was left facing surgery when a Eureka! moment saw her put pen to paper, designing a shoe. Shahmaz created a 3D design of a shoe that works by gradually separating the big toe from the rest, and slowly moving it in to a position that reduces pain and discomfort. Afterwards, she took the design to a shoemaker and had a prototype made, which she claims has helped her feet immensely.

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She created multiple devices and founded her own company. One of the inventions is the Bed Sled, which a person lies on top of, and is used to reposition the person in bed or in a recliner. The other main product is the Skid Seat, which helps move a person around in a wheelchair or recliner. Each Bed Sled ranges in size. It has a cotton/polyester absorbent material facing the person, with a polyurethane or vinyl PVC backing. There are between four and 10 handles on each Bed Sled.

The products can be bought online.

Manufactured using 3D printing, the inhaler features a piezo sensor that measures airflow as it passes through it. If the user breathes in correctly – and in doing so increases the airflow – a green LED lights up. But if an inadequate amount is inhaled, a red one illuminates. Two buzzes are also sounded; the first to signal when the user should start to inhale and the second to let him know when to stop holding his breath.

The spinal cord injury Josh suffered left him quadriplegic with limited use of his arms and hands. The inventor, who has a mechanical engineering degree from Virginia Tech, has invented a device that gives people with tetraplegia the ability to type, use touchscreens and press buttons – tasks that can be extremely difficult and slow for people with limited or no use of their fingers.

Going from a healthy division I football player to a patient in a children’s hospital, where he lost over 40 pounds, Conner struggled with losing his identity. In order to access his port - the disc-shaped object implanted in his chest to aid in chemotherapy - He had to take his shirt off. For Connor, it was another small comfort (and part of his dignity) that cancer had taken from him.

It was way back then that student formed an idea that is now becoming a reality: T-shirts that cancer patients can wear to make the chemotherapy process a more comfortable one.

She discovered that over time she had created a pattern - A picture of her mental and physical ups and downs. With that newfound knowledge she could take steps to improve her condition. Kimberly shared her remarkable findings with doctors who encouraged her to create a mobile app to share her lifechanging tools with others.

Once Kimberly was out of the hospital she went to an Apple store in San Diego with her charts and drawings to find out if they could help her. She was referred to Ditty Labs, a mobile app developer. A month later Mood Watch was ready to go live.

One day Don came home after a football game and he told Maura that he had been unable to button his own shirt in the locker room and had to have one of his players, Russell Wilson, close the shirt for him.

Chemo Beanies are slip-on head covers offered as a more stylish, easier-to-wear alternative to other caps and scarves for women undergoing cancer treatment.

Paul Pauca, an associate professor in computer science at Wake Forest University, began toying with the idea of developing an iPhone app to aid Victor in communication, so he invented Verbal Victor.

Verbal Victor is an iOS app that works similarly to many existing communication devices. A selection of buttons is displayed on the screen, each with a corresponding picture, such as a plate, a cup, or a swing. Pressing the desired button plays a recording that says things like, “I’m hungry,” “I want to swing,” and “I want to play outside.”

The diagnosis required chemotherapy for nine months, and then a stem cell transplant. Doctors put a PICC line in Pavuchak's upper arm to deliver the chemotherapy. The line stayed in place throughout his treatment. During that time, he got discouraged waiting for someone to help him wrap up his PICC line in order for him to take a shower. So he was determined to come up with a way to make being self-sufficient easier. And then, Pavuchak invented the Shower Soc - A disposable, waterproof product guaranteed to keep treatment areas dry and prevent infection.

The Passy-Muir® Tracheostomy & Ventilator Swallowing and Speaking Valve is a simple medical device used by tracheostomy and ventilator patients. When placed on the hub of the tracheostomy tube or in-line with the ventilator circuit, the Passy-Muir Valve redirects air flow through the vocal folds, mouth and nose enabling voice and improved communication.

This device is approved by FDA.

David passed way in 1990.

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Together with three other computer engineering graduates from Menoufia University in Egypt’s Shebin El-Kom, a wearable device was created that uses RGB imaging and infrared depth data captured by a 3D depth camera to assist individuals to navigate around obstacles using a system of vibration motors. The device is also able to recognise staircases, doors and chairs and can name these objects to the wearer through a Bluetooth-connected headset.

When she was eight years old, Lily noticed that her grandfather’s Parkinson’s was causing him to spill his drinks, so she decided to do something about it. She initially created a ceramic cup with three legs to help keep it upright on a table without tipping, and to keep it steady on uneven surfaces. This evolved into a microwaveable, dishwasher-safe plastic cup that could be mass-produced called the Kangaroo Cup.

She came up with an idea to create a pamphlet, which gathers key information of her son in order to present him to his school classmates and teachers.
After creating the pamphlet, Fabricio’s mother posted it on Facebook in the "Doutores do TEA" page, set up by her to exchange information with other parents. The profile provides a link where an editable file can be open allowing that other people can do the same for their child.

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But kids with autism sometimes have trouble with coordination and Lee found the iPhone screen was too small to support apps with which her son could interact. When Apple launched the iPad with its bigger screen in April 2010, Lee and her husband, who was getting his doctorate in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, saw an opening. They started a company, Enuma Apps (previously LocoMotive Labs), in 2012, to develop a suite of iPad apps specially designed for children with autism.

After several days in a coma, Ivo was diagnosed with quadriparesis, a condition of increasing, inevitable muscular weakness. Doctors decreed that the child would live the rest of his life in a wheelchair, unable to walk.

But Ivo’s father, Jorge, is a mechanic who runs his own auto repair shop in Buenos Aires. Instead of resigning himself to the idea that biology is destiny, Jorge used his expertise as a car mechanic to design and build a machine that would restore his son’s legs and arms.