Cognixion ONE Nexus in action

This year we had a blast attending CSUN’s Assistive Technology Conference in Anaheim, CA. While we were there we got to show the Cognixion ONE Nexus in action!

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“Cognixion ONE headset provides "Assisted Reality” - the blending of Assistive Technology and Augmented Reality. It is a universally accessible, wearable device that enables users with a wide variety of physical and neurological abilities to access augmented reality. Cognixion ONE senses brainwaves through several sensors on the interior of the headset and interprets what the user is viewing based on the sensed brainwave patterns. Even people who cannot move their eyes can use the Cognixion ONE to invoke simple commands and view results projected onto an augmented reality display. Cognixion ONE is expected to become available to the public around the end of 2022 to early 2023. The setting is the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference show floor at the Marriot in Anaheim, CA.”

Ability Central Annual Impact- Helping to provide communications and information access

At least one-in-six Americans will have a sensory or communication disorder during their lifetime. Many will benefit from Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices and other Assistive Technology (AT). 

As you know our whole mission at Cognixion is to unlock speech for hundreds of millions of people worldwide affected by communication disabilities. And our CEO Andreas Forsland takes that mission seriously. Beyond his work at Cognixion he is also a board member of Ability Central, the only foundation exclusively focused on improving communications and information access for individuals who are Deaf and disabled.  

• Over the past twelve years, Ability Central has given out more than $11.5 million in grants for work on communications disabilities.

• More than $4 million in funding has supported AAC training, device enhancement, app creation, and research to establish best practices.

• This support has helped at least half a million people who either work with AAC users or who use AAC devices themselves.

These innovative projects are creating new technologies and methodologies that empower AAC users.  

“Andreas Forsland embodies the mission of Ability Central to transform the field of communications access,” said Matt Cherry, Director of Philanthropy. “Andreas combines generosity, expertise, and innovation to help people realize their right to receive information and express themselves. We see that not only in the transformative work of Cognixion, but also in his exceptional contributions as a board member at Ability Central.”

Ability Central has just published its annual impact report, showing how its work continues to transform the lives of people with disabilities.  

The Ability Central impact report includes the story of William, an AAC user who, thanks to an Ability Central grant, is interning with the Communication Disabilities Access Network (CDAN). William is currently not in school because his district is unable to meet his communication needs. 

William presenting at a virtual Communication Disabilities Access Network training.

Image courtesy of Disability Voices United.

William took the internship with CDAN as an opportunity to learn to participate in a team and express his ideas and opinions. He has now presented at multiple trainings and is an active group leader in the Communication Access Connect. His insight and contributions are highly valued. William is a model of how access to communication makes all the difference in how we view individuals with communication differences.  

To learn more about the work Ability Central is doing, check out their 2021 impact report, showcasing their programs and their impact on communities of people with disabilities: https://aboutus.abilitycentral.org/ability-central-2021-impact-report/ 

The Big Ideas Behind Cognixion By Mathew Olson at The Information

The Big Ideas Behind Cognixion

 By Mathew Olson/The Information

The Santa Barbara-based startup Cognixion is getting closer to releasing its first headworn device, a headset designed primarily as a speech generation device for people with disabilities. 

I had the chance to try one of the prototype Cognixion One headsets in a demonstration this week led by CEO Andreas Forsland and recently-hired CTO Chris Ullrich, who joined the company from haptics company Immersion last month. We were also joined by Chris Benedict, a DJ and disability advocate born with cerebral palsy who consults for Cognixion.

The standout feature on Cognixion’s hardware spec sheet is the inclusion of six adjustable electrodes along the back of the headset, there to allow for use of the device just with brain-sensed inputs. But that, Forsland explained, is not the only or even necessarily the primary way Cognixion expects its devices will be used. In my demo, I navigated the headset’s menus—running on an iPhone concealed in the headset, which also doubles as its display thanks to a reflective visor—simply by moving my head around to guide a cursor.

For Benedict, an early tester of Cognixion’s assistive hardware, head movements are quick and easy for speech generation. In addition to that and the brain-sensing electrodes, Cognixion also plans for its headset to support eye-gaze inputs and physical switch controls, the idea being to give users flexible options for control that can work across a range of disabilities.

That, Forsland explained as I began dialing in sentences with small twists of my head, could potentially make the Cognixion One a more useful device for those with degenerative disorders. Of the over 1 billion people estimated to live with disabilities of some form, those with neurodegenerative diseases like ALS can face particularly tough challenges when it comes to accessibility accommodations—a tool or technology that helps them communicate and accomplish tasks one year might be unusable to them the next. Cognixion hopes that by supporting a range of inputs, a person could keep using its headset even as their condition changes over time. All the while, the AI systems underneath its speech keyboard and interfaces can adapt and continue to surface more relevant options to the user.

Cognixion is still moving through the processes of regulatory approval and certification needed to release its headsets, which it hopes Medicare will cover. Meanwhile, work continues on integrating Amazon’s Alexa with the headset by way of the same systems used for speech-generation, a partnership which saw the Alexa Fund venture arm participate in Cognixion’s last funding round.

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Cognixion Announces Chris Ullrich as Chief Technology Officer

We are ecstatic to announce that Chris Ullrich has joined the company as Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

In this role, Mr. Ullrich will lead technology and IP strategy and will dramatically grow the research and development capabilities at Cognixion as the company accelerates on the heels of our recent seed round.

Mr. Ullrich is a well-known technology, UX, and standards leader in the field of haptics, where he worked for the past 20 years. Mr. Ullrich was instrumental in leading the early research and productization of haptic technologies used in more than 3 billion devices worldwide including mobile phones, game consoles, XR devices, and automotive HMI. He most recently worked as CTO at Immersion Corp., where he led the research, engineering, and standards initiatives across the company. Mr. Ullrich is a prolific inventor and is named on more than 100 patent families with worldwide coverage. Mr. Ullrich holds a M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from the University of British Columbia and a B.Math from the University of Waterloo.

"I look forward to leading the creation of accessibility technologies at the forefront of technological possibility and driving Cognixion's innovation investments so that these technologies are pervasive and fundamental to human machine interactions for at least the next decade," said Mr. Ullrich, "Assisted Reality represents a unique opportunity to both create a meaningful impact for some of the least well served users and to move forward the state of the art in AR+BCI (Augmented Reality + Brain Computer Interface) interactivity to enable diverse application areas from cognitive prosthetics to media interaction to gaming to productivity to the metaverse."

"We received many outstanding applicants for this position, but ultimately decided that Mr. Ullrich's unique perspective on human machine interaction, his track record of innovation and value creation and his experience driving ideas to realized products deployed across literally billions of consumers mobile and gaming devices to industry standards was the right way to accelerate Cognixion's mission," said Andreas Forsland, Founder and CEO of Cognixion. "We want to unlock new capabilities for hundreds of millions of people with disabilities, and make the future of XR universally accessible for all to enjoy, ultimately setting new standards for biological interfaces and immersive experiences. Chris has a history of not only helping to create an industry, but setting the standard for its prolific adoption. We see a similar pathway for neurotechnologies like those at Cognixion."

Cognixion Raises $12 Million to Advance Assisted Reality Tech for Millions Affected by Communication Disabilities

Cognixion Raises $12 Million to Advance Assisted Reality Tech for Millions Affected by Communication Disabilities

Funding round led by Prime Movers Lab, including Northwell Health, Amazon Alexa Fund and Volta Circle

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Nov 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Nov 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Cognixion®, a neural interface startup, raised $12 million in seed funding to develop AI-powered neural interfaces that unlock speech and smart home controls for the hundreds of millions of people worldwide with communication and physical disabilities. The funding will help Cognixion develop new adaptive interfaces that make the Assisted Reality technology easier to use by everyone. Prime Movers Lab led the round with co-investors Northwell Health, Amazon Alexa Fund and Volta Circle.

Cognixion’s patented non-invasive, wireless brain-computer interface with an integrated augmented reality display, Cognixion ONE, detects the signals from the user's brainwaves associated with visual fixation on interactive objects and enables hands-free, voice-free control of AR/XR applications in the headset. Cognixion ONE is a closed-loop device that stimulates the visual cortex within the brain and reads its activity while sending control signals back to the AR application. It also integrates with leading research software.

In addition to Cognixion ONE, the company is building advanced machine learning algorithms and an AI-powered language system, which adapts to each user's unique communication style, making it more efficient at recognizing and anticipating what they intend to communicate. Equally exciting, a Cognixion headset user will be able to interface directly with Amazon Alexa from anywhere, accessing the smart assistant’s functions within the headset to interact with their environment and control smart devices, or access news, music, information and more.

“Cognixion is solving usability and accessibility issues for AR/XR and enabling new capabilities for people with disabilities today,” says Andreas Forsland, Cognixion Founder and CEO, “And in the near future, we see our innovations becoming a fundamental part of the metaverse, as a biological interface plus highly adaptive algorithms that unlock new use cases for XR.”

“We believe that technology should be inclusive and universally accessible to every individual, and everyone deserves a solution that can adapt to their needs – and that it’s possible to build ONE solution that can be personalized for communication, information access, interacting with smart devices, and everything else life has to offer,” Andreas Forsland said. “Prime Movers Lab has the same focus around making augmentative human capabilities a reality. Unlike most VCs, Prime Movers Lab is an extension of our team. In addition to the funding that they are providing, they are already helping us with hiring, marketing, government relations and building a pipeline of prospective customers.”

“Cognixion has created a breakthrough human-machine interface that accelerates and enriches human communication and connection,” Prime Movers Lab General Partner, Amy Kruse said. “You would think that Cognixion ONE is something out of science fiction if it didn’t already exist.  We believe that it will be a fundamentally life-changing and integral blend of an AI software platform with hardware to assist people of all ages who live with speech and motor disabilities, including Cerebral Palsy, Brainstem Stroke, ALS and many other conditions. Further we see the broader expansion of this platform to extend to all users to enrich life experiences, including: gaming, apps, the metaverse, and beyond. ”

“Cognixion ONE’s combination of visual stimulation and EEG reading could profoundly change the means of communication for patients with physical and neurological impairments,” said Dr. Souhel Najjar, SVP and Executive Director of the Neurology Service Line at Northwell Health. “We look forward to collaborating with the Cognixion team as they develop this technology and assess its efficacy in addressing this significant challenge.”

“Cognixion’s technology has the potential to revolutionize the way patients with impairments can communicate in a variety of settings. We believe Northwell’s investment and expertise will support Cognixion’s expansion into health care provider markets,” said Rich Mulry, President and CEO of Northwell Holdings & Ventures.

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About Cognixion

Cognixion is an internationally award-winning neuroscience and technology company pioneering the field of Assisted Reality.  Cognixion develops AI powered non-invasive BCI (Brain Computer Interface), assistive tech, and useful applications for people, including those affected by neurodevelopmental disorders and injuries to the brain and spinal cord. Based in Santa Barbara, California, the company develops software that helps people with communication challenges express themselves significantly faster than any other solution on the market, and provides a direct non-verbal interface to control Alexa enabled devices around the home, school and workplace.  For more information, please visit https://cognixion.com.

About Prime Movers Lab

Prime Movers Lab invests in breakthrough scientific startups founded by Prime Movers, the inventors who transform billions of lives. We invest in companies reinventing energy, transportation, infrastructure, manufacturing, agriculture and human augmentation. Portfolio investments span in-space transportation, industrial solar heat, ag tech, brain upgrades, nanostructured materials, wafer slicing, prosthetics, 3D printing, mobility, longevity and AI. For more information, please visit https://www.primemoverslab.com.

About Northwell Health

Northwell Health is New York State’s largest health care provider and private employer, with 23 hospitals, 830 outpatient facilities and more than 16,600 affiliated physicians. We care for over two million people annually in the New York metro area and beyond, thanks to philanthropic support from our communities. Our 77,000 employees – 18,900 nurses and 4,800 employed doctors, including members of Northwell Health Physician Partners – are working to change health care for the better. We’re making breakthroughs in medicine at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. We're training the next generation of medical professionals at the visionary Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and the Hofstra Northwell School of Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies. For information on our more than 100 medical specialties, visit Northwell.edu and follow us @NorthwellHealth on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.

Going for the gold! The IDEA Gold that is...

We are delighted to announce that the Cognixion ONE has received a Gold 2021 IDEA Award 🏆 from the Industrial Designers Society of America, IDSA! 

The #IDSAIDEA has been the top design awards program made by designers and for designers for 41 years.  This year the IDEA received the most entries ever, with over 2,087 entries from 25 different countries. Of the 142 designs that received top awards, this year 13 countries were represented and we are one of only 31 gold winners.

It is fantastic to see accessibility take center stage this year with the Gold for Best in Show won by Microsoft for their Xbox Adaptive Controller!   

Thank you so much to our team & partners who have worked tirelessly to make Cognixion ONE a reality and to STEL for being such an amazing design team. 

Accessibility for All.

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Signed, sealed, & patented....

We are so excited to congratulate the team on one of their latest achievements….

Cognixion has recently received two United States Patents!

Brain-Computer Interface for Augmented Reality & Dynamic Eye-tracking Camera Alignment Utilizing Eye-Tracking Maps.

Congratulations to the Inventors our CEO Andreas Forsland & Leonard Zerman, for accomplishing this huge milestone! We are most definitely ringing bells today!

Want to learn more about how these patents further our work here at Cognixion

and help us to build a more accessible world with the Cognixion One?

Robb Report Feature: You Can Control This New Hands-Free Augmented Reality Headset With Your Mind

Thank you so much to Bryan Hood at Robb Report the following feature of Congixion ONE

We all knew that computers would eventually become one with our minds. Now, one company wants to bring that futuristic idea to your next headset.

The aptly named company Cognixion just unveiled the ONE AR, a hands-free augmented reality device that can be controlled via a brain-to-computer interface (BCI). That’s right, it’s a headset you control with your mind.

Developed by a team of neurologists, biosignal engineers, speech-language pathologists and other experts over the last four years, the ONE is an AR headset that is currently aimed at anyone with complex communication disorders like cerebral palsy or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. In addition to BCI, the self-contained device can be controlled by head movements, voice commands and a physical switch.

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Awakening Millions with Brain-Controlled Interfaces with Andreas Forsland, CEO of Cognixion

Listen in as Cognixion’s CEO Andreas Forsland talks with Qualio about the future of communication.

Imagine if Stephen Hawking couldn't communicate. The world's understanding of theoretical physics would be greatly limited. There are roughly half a billion people like Stephen Hawking who are just waiting to communicate and contribute if they only had the technology to do so.

Andreas Forsland, founder and CEO at Cognixion (the "Tesla of Neurotech") is solving that.

Andreas has a robust background in hardware, software, and design. That background all converged when his mother was in the hospital struggling to communicate to healthcare providers. The idea for Cognixion was then born.

Cognixion is a digital health startup building accessible and affordable neuroprosthetic software and wearables that use biometric sensors and machine learning in new ways to help people with complex disabilities use their face, eyes and brain as a direct control interface for mobile and augmented reality accessibility.

This is the interface to one day control your surroundings with your brain. Mind blown!

Say "👋 Hello" to Cognixion ONE

In 1984, Apple revolutionized computing with the introduction of the Mac. In 1998, Apple did it again with the iMac. This time, in 2021, Cognixion will revolutionize the human-computer relationship by not just enabling a computer to say, "hello", but enabling a person with a speech or language disability to say, "hello" - some for the very first time, and some now able to restore their ability to say it (again).

Introducing our Brain Computer Interface (BCI) solution to the world - Cognixion One - The world's first wearable speech generating device that combines a wireless wearable brain-computer with augmented reality.

1984 - Apple

1998 - Apple

2021 - Cognixion

See it in Action

What Did the Nonverbal Person Say to the Verbal Person? Answer: Anything they want!

What Did the Nonverbal Person Say to the Verbal Person?

Answer: Anything they want!

Cognixion's goal is to unlock speech for hundreds of millions of people worldwide affected by communication disabilities.

This week our Founder and CEO Andreas Forsland and Tim Jin, a Cognixion Brainiac Council Member, will be exploring the world of AI-powered communication.

Here at Cognixion we focus on accessible communication through the realm of AAC, AR, and Neurotechnology. In addition to software offering eye-tracking and facial recognition, future products explore the world of brain-computer interface and augmented reality. That’s where Tim Jin comes in. Tim was born with Cerebral Palsy and has used an Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) device since elementary school. A graduate from Cal State Long Beach in speech communication, he is also an active member on several boards of directors.

Have a question for Andreas or Tim?

Drop it in the comment section below and we will make sure they get it.

What's NEW? What's NEXT? With Krista Howard A.A., AAC Mentor with We Speak AAC

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Initially recorded on October 28th, 2020

What's NEW? What's NEXT? with Krista Howard A.A., AAC Mentor with We Speak AAC

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• Limitations of tethered AAC when you are unable to use your hands

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What's NEW? What's NEXT? With Gil Addison, PathPoint Community Integration Manager

What’s NEW? What’s NEXT? Facebook Live Interview

Initially recorded on October 21st, 2020

What's NEW? What's NEXT? with Gil Addison, PathPoint Community Integration Manager

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• Challenges of remote services during COVID-19

• What’s NEXT? Control & Communication

• Coming together to provide services in a time of remote 

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BCI Connection With Joel Ward

BCI Connection Facebook Live Interview

Initially recorded on October 14th, 2020

What's NEW? What's NEXT? with Joel Ward, Technology Strategist.

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• XR- Extended Reality

• The mix between AR and VR

• Combining current technologies for new solutions

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BCI Connection With Larry Goldberg

BCI Connection Facebook Live Interview

Initially recorded on October 7th, 2020

What's NEW? What's NEXT? with Larry Goldberg, Head of Accessibility for Verizon Media, former Senior Director of Accessible Media for Yahoo.

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• Creating accessibility in film & TV

• Ever wonder how closed captioning works?

• The need for dynamic image recognition and scene description

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AAC: What's NEW? What's NEXT? With Glenda Watson Hyatt

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Initially recorded on September 30th, 2020

What's NEW? What's NEXT? with Glenda Watson Hyatt, BA, Author, Keynote Speaker and a Badass Agitator.

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• International Keynote Speaker

• How will people with communication disabilities be included?

• Communication within healthcare settings

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AAC: What's NEW? What's NEXT? With Richard Ellenson

AAC: What’s New? What’s Next? Facebook Live Interview

Initially recorded on September 23rd, 2020

What's NEW? What's NEXT? with Richard Ellenson, Founder of Talk Suite, former CEO of the Cerebral Palsy Foundation and creator of Blink Twice and Panther.

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• Started new inclusive school program in NYC

• Changing the brand of disabilities

• Anticipatory Communication

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AI is Transforming Disabilities into Possibilities

We are honored to have Simeone Scaramozzino of Trans Tech Milan interview our CEO Andreas Forsland about what we have been working on at Cognixion.

Scroll through to read Alison Keiper’s piece on the the interview.

Almost half a billion people worldwide have a speech disability, yet only 3% of them have access to technology that could help them connect and interact with the world around them.

Imagine what the world could look like if each of these people were empowered? To contribute their voices. To share their ideas. To express their full potential. We could have artists, scientists, creators, engineers, change-makers, philosophers, and more among us with undiscovered talents that could revolutionise society.

This has been the mission of Santa Barbara, California-based company Cognixion since its founding in 2014 — to unlock self-expression, connection, and inclusion for those who may otherwise be marginalized.

Andreas Forsland, Founder & CEO of Cognixion, joined Simeone Scaramozzino, Chapter Leader of Transformative Technology Milan, in a virtual event to discuss how Cognixion is developing affordable and accessible technology and getting it into the hands of more people who need it.

The inspiration for Cognixion manifested in 2012 when, during a trip to California, Forsland’s mother suffered from an aggressive case of pneumonia, so severe that she was placed on a ventilator for 7 weeks. After experiencing first-hand the difficulties and frustration in trying to communicate with a loved one unable to speak, Forsland was inspired to find solutions for people with communication challenges.

Drawing from his background in design and healthcare consumer electronics, Forsland founded Cognixion to break down communication barriers and empower people through technology that is affordable, accessible, and intuitive to set up and use.

Cognixion’s award-winning app, Speakprose. Photo by Cognixion

Recently earning recognition as a top 21 neurotech startup to watch, Cognixion develops neuroprosthetic software and wearables that enable people with complex disabilities to utilise their face, eyes, and brain as a direct control interface to express themselves.

Their “think to speak” technology aims to address the human interaction needs of those with autism, down syndrome, traumatic brain injury, stroke, cancer, cerebral palsy, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, ALS, and more.

Each communication challenge is unique and has a wide spread of parameters to design for. Cognixion builds on whichever user abilities are available — hearing, touch, gesture, movement, or even simply attention to the environment.

To build solutions for users in a way that is humane and respectful of their abilities, Forsland explains that Cognixion has developed “a technical framework that allows people to personalise for their own experiences so they can access communication with less effort.” They employ a range of technologies — brain computer interfaces (BCIs), artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR), and eye-tracking and facial recognition technology — to design truly augmentative conversational interfaces.

With Cognixion’s AI-powered neurotechnology, users are able to respond more quickly in conversation and get to the words they want to say faster, up to 10x faster than any other solution on the market.

“It’s like a neuro-bionic capability — our technology is so easy and natural to use that it quickly becomes a digital extension of someone’s body and abilities. Like a superpower.” — Andreas Forsland

Cognixion currently has an application available in the Apple App store: award-winning SpeakProse and the recently launched upgrade SpeakProse Pro+. Both have either a free trial or free version as well as a paid version. By providing software that can be easily downloaded, Cognixion aims to improve access to affordable assistive technology and give control back to people rather than requiring them to go through more convoluted and time-consuming channels, such as through insurance or a clinical evaluation.

In early 2021, Cognixion expects to launch a new wearable, which Forsland describes as a “heads-up display that includes AR and a BCI. It’s a complete integrated system that includes BCI electronics using EEG [electroencephalogram] as well as the accessibility of using head gaze and other things for controlling the AR environment. It’s essentially one elegant solution that can accommodate a variety of access methods within a very simple form factor.”

While Cognixion is currently focused on addressing the specific needs of those with communication disabilities, Forsland describes Cognixion’s work as a pebble in the water that could have a much larger ripple effect into the global community. Viewing the world through a lens of universal design, Forsland believes that by focusing on a unique need, the world benefits when those solutions can be adopted universally.

“By designing for the least of us, we benefit the most of us.” — Andreas Forsland

A philosophy that motivates Cognixion’s work, universal design is a design approach that considers the wide spectrum of human abilities and improves accessibility and inclusivity. When something is universally designed, it can be used easily by everyone. One of the most common examples of universal design is the sidewalk ramp. Originally designed for those with wheelchairs to conveniently and safely use sidewalks, it also benefits small children, seniors, people riding bikes, parents pushing strollers, and others.

From Forsland’s perspective, “20% of the world has a disability, and 100% will become old,” meaning that, in a sense, we are only temporarily abled. “By focusing all of our attention and efforts and energy into designing for people with disabilities, you truly are designing for everyone because eventually we all may end up needing to use the tools that we’re creating today.”

By translating universal design approaches and improving accessibility to assistive technology, Cognixion is building a more equitable and inclusive world — a world where “you have new ideas and new voices being expressed, you have people fulfilling themselves… And not just what they can do, but the network effect… For any individual that has a disability, they have a family, they have friends, they have their first and second and third degree circles in their social graph that also benefit by that individual being empowered… There’s this huge ripple effect.”

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Article Written By:

Alison Keiper

Patent agent, engineer, & wellness enthusiast exploring science, tech, & transformation

AAC: What's NEW? What's NEXT? With India Ochs

AAC: What’s New? What’s Next? Facebook Live Interview

Initially recorded on September 16th, 2020

What's NEW? What's NEXT? with India Ochs, Attorney & Social Justice Advocate

Highlights:

• 20th Consecutive Show Celebration

• High achievement combined with a productive and fulfilling lifestyle

• Disability Advocacy

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AAC: What's NEW? What's NEXT? With Lydia Dawley

AAC: What’s New? What’s Next? Facebook Live Interview

Initially recorded on September 9th, 2020

What's NEW? What's NEXT? with Lydia Dawley, AAC Consultant and CEO at Click Speak Connect

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• AAC consultation by a professional who also uses AAC

• The value of teaching social skills through organic conversation

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