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Biomedical Engineering Students are Designing a Product to Help Blind Children Play Basketball

Students in Biomedical Engineering are working to design a means for children with blindness and low-vision to play basketball.

The main problems are detecting the basketball’s movement in the air and location of the basketball hoop. The George Washington University Biomedical Engineering Senior Capstone Team is working to improve the safety and enjoyment of people with blindness or low-vision in the game of basketball (while completing their capstone graduation requirement). The team will be working to produce a product that will benefit the individuals with visual impairments who want to play basketball.

The capstone professor is Nathan Choe, PhD, and he is working with the IMAGE Center of Maryland, a nonprofit that matches the needs of disabled people with engineers.

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Entry-Level Occupational Therapy Doctorate (eOTD) Program Launched this Fall 2022

Dr. Lisa Bagby, Assistant Professor of Health, Human Function, and Rehabilitation Sciences, together with the Occupational Therapy Team, launched the Entry-Level Occupational Therapy Doctorate (eOTD) program in Fall 2022.

As the Academic Fieldwork Coordinator for the program, Dr. Bagby focuses on empowering people and diverse communities. The program’s courses, service learning initiatives, and fieldwork experiences apply a social model of disability, in which students are taught to consider the intersection of health and social conditions.

Over the course of five semesters, students also complete monthly service learning experiences in a diverse community setting in the DC area, prior to beginning their clinical rotations. Given the persistent and systemic inequities faced by marginalized and minoritized groups in the United States, Dr. Bagby seeks to develop future occupational therapists with skills to not only improve individual functioning within a given setting, but also to be catalysts for change in the hearts and minds of our society at large.

Please visit the Entry-Level Occupational Therapy Doctorate program website for more information.

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Disability Design Time hosts Professor O’Donnell to discuss being Deaf and Deaf Culture

On Wednesdays from 3 – 5 PM, the GW Innovation Center facilitates a Disability Design Time in Tompkins M06.

Every Wednesday we welcome people experiencing disability and all those interested in the subject to work together and become designers.

This Wednesday April 13 at 3:15 pm, We will have Professor O’Donnell as a guest to discuss being Deaf and Deaf Culture.

The GW Innovation Center is in Tompkins Hall, room M06. Phoenix Price (Chief Engineer), Erica Wortham, PhD (Interim Director), and I (Victor Krauthamer, PhD) hope to see you there on Wednesday!

Please contact me (vkrauthamer@gwu.edu) if you have any questions.

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Disability Design Time at the GW Innovation Center

On Wednesdays from 3 – 5 PM, the GW Innovation Center will facilitate a Disability Design Time in Tompkins M06.

It is a place to meet informally and work together on designs to improve accessibility. We welcome people experiencing disability and all those interested in the subject to work together and become designers.

We also invite your engagement to organize events, bring in speakers, and have open discussions. The GW Innovation Center is in Tompkins Hall, room M06. Phoenix Price (Chief Engineer), Erica Wortham, PhD (Interim Director), and I (Victor Krauthamer, PhD) hope to see you there on Wednesdays!

Please contact me (vkrauthamer@gwu.edu) if you have any questions.

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