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Expert Resources: MND


These are the items that relate to MND found on the AbilityNet website. They may be factsheets, webinars, news stories, blog posts or reports.

  • Communication Aids

    Alex.Barker | 28 Jan 2025
    Communication problems affect an estimated 2.2 million people.  This includes people with aphasia, autism, cerebral palsy, dementia, head trauma, learning difficulties, motor neurone disease (MND), Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s and stroke. People with these conditions may have difficulty...
  • Using mobile phones if you have MND

    Alex.Barker | 20 Jun 2019
    Friday June 21st marks Motor Neuron Disease Awareness Day and we take a look at how technology might help someone who has MND and might be struggling to use a mobile phone.A diagnosis of a condition such as MND is life changing and there are probably a million and one things to consider. One of the...
  • How you can use a computer if you have MND

    Alex.Barker | 18 Jun 2018
    Motor Neurone Disease is also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease (after an American baseball player). It affects the muscles in your body causing them to be weak. There is no known cure for this condition, but symptoms can be managed to help people to achieve the best possible quality of life....
  • AbilityNet remembers Stephen Hawking

    Alex.Barker | 14 Mar 2018
    In 2012 Hawking was presented with AbilityNet's Tech4Good Special Award for the way that he embraced technology to enable him to keep working, despite his worsening condition. He is remembered in this piece.
  • Effective communication, computing and tech for people with motor neurone disease (MND)

    Claudia.Cahalane | 28 Jun 2016
    The experts at the MND Association and AbilityNet, we've answered some Frequently Asked Questions / FAQs for people who have MND and want to get the best from technology for communications.
  • Motor Neurone Disease (MND) and Computing

    Alex.Barker | 20 Jun 2016
    Motor Neurone Disease is also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease (after an American baseball player). It affects the muscles in your body causing them to be weak. There is no known cure for this condition, but symptoms can be managed to help people to achieve the best possible quality of life....
  • Motor Neurone Disease (MND) and Computing

    Alex.Barker | 20 Jun 2016
    Motor Neurone Disease is also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease (after an American baseball player). It affects the muscles in your body causing them to be weak. There is no known cure for this condition, but symptoms can be managed to help people to achieve the best possible quality of life....
  • DSAs and long term health conditions

    Anonymous | 04 Jan 2016
    For those with long-term health conditions, DSAs can be a lifeline, writes Jess, a sufferer of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) who blogs about her experiences.
  • How Stephen Hawking communicates

    Robin Christopherson | 30 Sep 2013
    Prof. Stephen Hawking is one of the most recognisable people on the planet, partly because of his synthesised speech. As well as featuring in the Opening Ceremony at the London Olympics he's so famous that he's played himself in The Simpsons four times! But what is the technology behind that voice...
  • Making communication possible for people with MND

    Anonymous | 17 May 2013
    As part of our Look No Hands! Campaign this blog looks at Motor Neurone Disease and what assistive technology can be life changing for people with MND.
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