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> Subject: Reminder: Internships in Assistive Tech Development &
> Research
>
> As part of the Technology and Social Justice Internship Program we
> have several exciting Assistive Technology Development and Research
> opportunities.
>
> Internships are 2 points, with students expected to work 6-8 hours
> per week. We will have a special event so that interested students
> can meet the participating organizations on Friday, September 5th
> at 10:00 a.m. in the Conference Room. After the presentation/
> meeting a formal application process follows. Students will be
> selected by organizations. Participating students will receive a
> $1000 stipend, funded by the Nathan Cummings Foundation.
> Organizational and Internship information follows below. For
> additional information, please contact Marianne R. Petit
> (marianne.petit@nyu.edu)
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> DIGITAL WHEEL ART
>
> Digital Wheel Art is an assitive drawing system that encourages
> wheelchair people to express themselves in artistic ways beyond
> their physical disabilities. Working with the Rusk Institue of
> Rehabilitation Medicine, we will install one at their space.
> Someone who is good at electronics(XBee, PCB, and Wiimote hacking)
> and packaging it is truly welcomed.
>
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>
> REACH
>
> The Reach Project is a collaboration between Interaction Designers
> and Occupational Therapists in the development of a specialized
> video tracking and interactive projection environment for use in
> pediatric rehabilitation. The reactive environment is used to
> inspire, motivate and track the progress of patients through a
> series of open ended and playful games.
>
> Current goals:
>
> • Advance the current prototype to a plug and play
> system that OT’s can operate without assistance
> • Further develop game environments that meet
> therapeutic goals
> • Create a measurable game for assessment and re-assessment
> • Install the trial system hardware and software at NYU
> Medical Center for evaluation and testing
>
>
> Interns will collaborate with the project core team to advance and
> deploy the existing prototype system. User interface and game
> specification detail will be reviewed at the beginning of the
> internship along with a detailed project plan outlining milestones
> and dates that ensure deployment towards the end of the semester at
> NYU Medical. A test and development environment will be setup on
> the floor at ITP or frog Design at the beginning of the semester
> for iterative development and testing.
>
> This internship will be highly collaborative and rewarding to any
> contributors with the desired skills and interests.
>
> Desired Skills and Interests (must meet one or both):
>
> Required Skills (programming assistance):
> • Experience with programming in flex & Java
> • Interest and or experience in video tracking
> • Interest in assistive technology
>
> Required Skills (game assistance):
> • Experience with animation in flash or other platform
> • Interest in immersive game environments
> • Interest in assistive technology
>
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> THE ALS ASSOCIATION
>
> The ALS Association (www.als-ny.org) is the only national not-for-
> profit voluntary health organization whose sole mission is to find
> a cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s disease) and
> improve living with ALS. ALS is a progressive neuromuscular
> disease that causes weakness in all voluntary muscles.
>
> In pursuit of our mission, we provide many services to patients
> with ALS. The service that the intern will be involved in is our
> assistive technology program.
>
> The assistive technology program serves patients in a variety of
> ways, including conducting home visits to address different
> assistive technology needs, providing a wide variety of loan
> equipment from our loan closets, as well as providing information
> with regard to every area of assistive technology.
>
> The internship will provide the student with exposure to a variety
> of areas of assistive technology. Also, a specific project will be
> developed for the intern to work on. We are very flexible as to
> what that project will entail and look forward to meeting your
> student’s needs for a challenging internship.
>
> Examples of projects:
>
> 1. Continue on the project started by the previous intern regarding
> software for reading books.
>
> 2. Build a driving skills screening device. At our ALS Clinics
> patients are screened for their current physical abilities. Often
> the issue of driving comes up and we need a way to test basic
> physical abilities for driving. The project would involve
> researching required reaction times and other physical/perceptual
> requirements for driving. Then a physical device would be built to
> test these abilities and give the patient feedback as to whether
> they have the basic abilities to continue driving. This is not a
> driving simulator, but a device to test basic abilities required
> for safe driving.
>
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> COGNITECH CAFE/JCC FREE SUNDAY EVALUATIONS
>
> The JCC in Manhattan, in collaboration with The Cognitech Café, is
> continuing the use of its computer facilities to accommodate the
> varied needs of children with learning, physical, visual and
> communication challenges. The JCC is committed to providing unique
> solutions to empower individuals with accessible technologies that
> foster greater independence, learning, and socialization. We
> provide hands-on demonstrations, consultations and support for most
> assistive technology software and hardware.
>
> This FREE assistive technology assistance is available on Sundays.
> All visitors must make an appointment by e-mail or phone to be
> seen. After our short consultations with participants, we help them
> navigate school, public, and private resources for more formal
> assistive technology and augmentative communication evaluations
> when needed. We hope to continue to serve not just our
> participants, but also the various educational, support, and
> advocacy agencies across the city who provide more formal
> evaluations and training by referring folks to them when
> appropriate. We have served over 120 individuals for free in the
> last 16 months, and hope to double that number this year.
>
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>
> METROPOLITAN HOSPITAL AND HEALTH CORPORATION (Department of
> Rehabilitation Medicine, Occupational Therapy Section)
>
> This internship will provide an immersive clinical environment for
> non-clinical assistive technology developers in an acute inpatient
> rehabilitation setting. Interns will learn to identify clinical
> needs through in-service/lectures on various diagnoses, supervised
> patient interactions and observations and collaboration with the
> rehabilitation team. Once clinical needs are identified, the
> intern, along with an OT assistive technology developer, will take
> an active role in the early stages of assistive device development,
> in direct user testing, and in prototype redevelopment. Interns
> will also be expected to utilize their background knowledge to
> improve upon assistive devices currently in use at the facility.
>
> (Required knowledge: Physical computing, programming, interest in
> assistive technology development a MUST)
> (Preferred knowledge: 3D software development, mobile applications)
>
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>
> The AHRC
>
> AHRC is dedicated to enhancing the lives of individuals with
> developmental and intellectual disabilities and their families.
> Within AHRC’s Education Department, there are six schools: four
> preschools, one elementary school, and one middle/high school. AHRC
> schools have a commitment to serve ALL children by embracing
> maximum integration of children with special needs and typically
> developing peers.
>
> As an intern for AHRC’s Education Department, you will be directly
> supervised by an ITP alumna.
>
> Current internship possibilities:
>
> - Share your PComp skills with the burgeoning Assistive Technology
> Lending Library, for students with autism, where you will work
> closely with classrooms to develop simple cause-and-effect switch
> activities. Located in Brooklyn at either (or both) the elementary
> school in Gerritsen Beach and the middle/high school in Bay Ridge.
>
> - Share your design skills to help in a pilot project involving
> Intellitools, which enables teachers to design interactive
> curricula-relevant activities, at a preschool on the Upper West Side.
>
> - Share your video making skills to either help in the assessment
> of play skills of students with Autism or develop training videos
> for teaching teachers how to use a method of picture exchange
> communication (PECS).
>
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Midori Yasuda
Admissions, Special Events, Alumni Coordinator
Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP)
Tisch School of the Arts
New York University
721 Broadway, 4th Floor
New York NY 10003
Phone: (212) 998-1882
Fax: (212) 998-1898
midori.yasuda@nyu.edu