Blogs --- focus on universal design
Many people are contributing to the promotion, education, growth and development of universal design and related areas. Find the work of other blog contributors here.
Abadi Accessibility News
"Abadi Accessibility News is an informational blog created by Marcela Abadi Rhoads to serve the building community to educate and provide useful information about accessibilty standards in the U.S. We will post tips, clarifications and newsworthy items about the ADA, TAS , Fair Housing and other standards. Marcela owns Abadi Accessibility, Inc. and is a registered architect and a Registered Accessibility Specialist (RAS). She has performed hundreds of reviews and inspection during that time. Most recently, she authored The ADA Companion Guide: Understanding the ADA an ABA (published by John Wiley and Sons)"
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Aging in Place Guide by Louis Tenenbaum
Excellent, thoughtful, frequently updated and generously given aging-in-place blog by Louis Tenenbaum.
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Disability Works blog
"A place to discuss ideas that impact the disability and aging community."
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Not getting to Universal Design
"Issues swirl together, and after weeks of being conscious of an ever increasing crescendo of complaints about technology in the classroom I sat talking with a group of other PhD candidates about Universal Design and Universal Access and why it does not seem important to most people, even in a college of education where everyone mouths support of the idea of education for all, in an American state where the Governor has promised to double the number of college graduates, in a nation committed to an idea called, "No Child Left Behind."
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Patricia E. Bauer: News and Commentary on Disability Issues
"News and Commentary on Disability Issues. Join journalist Patricia E. Bauer as she seeks to bring you the best information about what's happening now and what it may mean for you and your loved ones."
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Rolling Rains Report
"The travel & hospitality industry is sensing the spark of something new. At Rolling Rains we monitor its progress and call out ideas that are standing the test of the times.
In particular we search out examples of how Universal Design creates new travel opportunities and products that are, to quote the definition of Universal Design, usable by the widest range of people operating in the widest range of situations."
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Smart Senior
Smart Senior
"Reviewing products and ideas to make independent living safer and easier."
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Thinking UDL: Universal Design for Learning
Blog about the universal design learning environment.
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Time Goes By, what it's really like to get older
"Today, TGB is a complex mix of reporting on every aspect of aging: health and medical issues, ageism and age discrimination, media, technology, politics and public policy, culture, marketing to elders, the importance of language, love and sex, friendship, post-career careers, retirement, family, the prospect of death and, certainly, humor.
A large community of elderbloggers has developed over these five years, old people writing on their blogs about their past and present lives, interests and passions, and I’m most grateful for the growing number of TGB readers whose comments, conversation and argument here are creating a remarkable record of what it’s really like to get old." - Ronni Bennett
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UD-I TEACH
"Moving Beyond Individual Accommodations Through the Application of Universal Design Principles and Practices."
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Universal Design 2010
Over 60 posts from 2007-2009 looking at universal design from a wide range of perspectives, many that are non traditional.
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Universal Design Renovations
"A hands on account of the trials & tribulations we encounter renovating a house for disability access."
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Universal Design Renovations
A unique perspective as one family journals the creation of their universally designed home.

