With advances in technology, being a neurodivergent person has become slightly easier. Much of the emphasis in school settings has been on tablets for augmentative and alternative communication, for daily schedules, social stories and other support aides, or for audio books and to type assignments rather than write. These tools are wonderful, and as they are general use technologies, they become cheaper and more accessible to a variety of people.

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Another line of Wearables many are not aware of are “Hearables.” While AirPods (wireless bluetooth earbuds) are known to the general public, there is a lesser known benefit to this technology. Doppler Labs and Nuheara (Doppler Labs is no longer in business) pioneered this technology to provide relief from auditory overstimulation through their earbuds. These https://thelogopalace.co/https://www.divergentminds.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Untitled-design-1.pngs/divergent/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Untitled-design.pngices have microphones in their earbuds that take in the auditory information and then allow you to control what you hear from the outside world. While Hearables are priced out of range for most disabled people, Nuheara is working to make their https://thelogopalace.co/https://www.divergentminds.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Untitled-design-1.pngs/divergent/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Untitled-design.pngices accessible to a larger variety of people through both the possibility of donations to people as well as doing research to show their benefit to allow insurance and agencies cover the cost.

The landscape is looking wide open to providing better support for disabled people. We can only hope that more and more people are able to access these assistive https://thelogopalace.co/https://www.divergentminds.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Untitled-design-1.pngs/divergent/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Untitled-design.pngices.