examples of ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGies

READ THE ENTIRE FEBRUARY 2023 EDITION OF INSIDE EQUAL ACCESS This article originally appeared in the February 2023 edition of Inside Equal Access.    Have you ever used speech to text on your phone? If so, then you’ve used assistive technology. Assistive technology is any type of technology, program, or design that enables those with disabilities to remove barriers in their everyday lives.   As with most accessibility designs, there are many pieces of assistive technology we use in our everyday lives without even realizing their intended purpose, from au...

EMPLOYEE SPOTLIGHT Teaser- Sharon Sciartelli

READ THE ENTIRE FEBRUARY 2023 EDITION OF INSIDE EQUAL ACCESS This article originally appeared in the February 2023 edition of Inside Equal Access.  By:  Haifa Alsaab Professor Sharon Sciartelli joined Kent State faculty 15 years ago and now she is an associate professor of Psychological Sciences in the Department of Psychological Sciences. Each semester, Dr. Sciartelli teaches General Psychology, Social Psychology, Abnormal Psychology and Psychological Assessment. Her classes range between 75 and 250 students and she is particularly interested in the process of ...

Alumni Spotlight: Tony Nguyen

Tony Nguyen '10, M.L.I.S. is the Executive Director at the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB). In this alumni spotlight, Tony explains the importance of volunteering, finding a good mentor and why knowing a little bit about a lot of things is a good generalist mindset for a librarian.

Lisa Viola, Kent Dance Ensemble guest artist, performing Lines of Loss by Paul Taylor Dance Company

The Kent Dance Ensemble, under the artistic direction of Catherine Meredith, welcomes professional dancer and choreographer Lisa Viola to Kent State as a guest artist Feb. 6-10, 2023. During her residency, Lisa Viola will collaborate with the members of the Kent Dance Ensemble on a work that will appear in the March 24-25, 2023 Kent Dance Ensemble concert.  Lisa Viola was born in 1963 in San Fransisco and moved to Honolulu when she was four. She showed talent in ballet classes from a young age and when she was 15, her mother took her to New York for a summer workshop at the S...

Jordan Edgar in front of pizzeria logo she designed

Senior visual communication design major Jordan Edgar, '23, is the creator of the logo for Homeslice Pizzeria, Kent State’s newest dining location.  Edgar is a student multimedia designer for University Housing and Culinary Services and was asked to design the logo for Homeslice. Before beginning the design process, Edgar knew she wanted to create a logo that would match the environment of the Kent Student Center and incorporate elements of a pizza restaurant.  “For colors, we wanted to use red and green that would match the theme of a pizza place,” she said.  ...

Brain Health Research Institute and Hugh A. Glauser School of Music

Co-hosted Seminar Series

April 24-25, 2023

 

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