Ability Now Bay Area’s staff and participants were thrilled to receive tickets for the Warriors game on Friday, March 31st. Twenty tickets were donated by Kevin Durant through the Warriors’ Community Foundation, ensuring that everyone who wanted to was able…
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Student’s Wearable Technology Brings a Voice to Ability Now Participants
Students in the Wearable and Soft Interactions class from the California College of the Arts teamed up with some of the participants at Ability Now to create a customized “wearable technology” product. The students’ class projects are designed to produce…
A Bittersweet Goodbye on Valentine’s Day
Ability Now’s celebration on Valentine’s Day welcomed in our King and Queen, and Prince and Princess, but we also said goodbye to our long-time instructor, Mandi Palfreyman. Mandi has been an instructor at Ability Now for over 15 years and…
Ability Now Receives Generous Donation of Adaptive Spoons for Participants
Many of the participants at Ability Now have Cerebral Palsy or another disability that makes holding a spoon or fork difficult, therefore making eating challenging. Some readers may remember that engineers from Verily (the life science division of Google) were…
Ability Now’s Monique Harris marches at the Women’s March for Disability Rights
Ability Now participant Monique Harris attended the Women’s March on Saturday January 21, 2017 in Washington D.C. As part of her advocacy work and her Leadership Training, which was sponsored through Hand in Hand, Monique joined over 500,000 other marchers…
Volunteers from Kaiser Permanente Give Back on MLK Day
Colla Voce Sings for Ability Now
The participants at Ability Now enjoyed a beautiful mix of Christmas songs from Colla Voce on Tuesday, December 12th. Colla Voce is a mixed vocal ensemble made up of 14 advanced singers from Head Royce School. The singers’ repertoire ranges…
Halloween Brings Spooktacular Time
Ability Now held their annual Halloween party on Monday, October 31st, and in usual style, most of the staff and participants were in costume. The festivities began with hitting the piñata, which spilled candy everywhere when it was finally broken.…
Ability Now Participants to Design Their Own Wearable Electronics
Wearable electronics researcher and educator, Lara Grant, lead a focus group with interested participants in creating “wearable technology”. Lara teaches Wearable and Soft Interactions at the California College of the Arts. She spent over an hour with participants showing them…
Avis Gray’s Latest Literary Laurels
Ability Now is proud to announce that Avis Gray’s story, “Oh, That Teacher!” will be published in the Fall/Winter edition of Magnets and Ladders. Magnets and Ladders is an online publication for writers with disabilities. The story, which takes place…