{"id":1089,"date":"2019-07-22T19:01:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T19:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.bxmc.poly.edu\/~moeezosaleem\/IDMTest\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2026-07-07T14:41:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:41:38","slug":"the-nyu-ability-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/the-nyu-ability-project\/","title":{"rendered":"The NYU Ability Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/ability.nyu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"NYU Ability Project (opens in a new tab)\">NYU Ability Project<\/a>, a joint research initiative between NYU Tandon&#8217;s programs in <a href=\"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/\">Integrated Design &amp; Media<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/steinhardt.nyu.edu\/programs\/occupational-therapy\">Occupational Therapy Department<\/a> at NYU Steinhardt, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/tisch.nyu.edu\/itp\">Interactive Telecommunications Program<\/a> at NYU Tisch, supports research in client-centered, assistive technology and adaptive design for people with disabilities.<\/p>\r\n<p>As an interdisciplinary research space dedicated to the intersection between disability and technology, the Ability Project supports classes, programmatic interactions with community partners (such as <a href=\"https:\/\/techunlimited.org\/\">Tech Unlimited<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heartshare.org\/\">HeartShare<\/a>), and research initiatives on a variety of topics related to technology and the social model of disability.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ability Project fosters collaboration between individuals with disabilities and engineers, designers, educators, artists, occupational and physical therapists and speech language pathologists.<\/p>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-research-project"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3345,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/3345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}