Author: TAAadmin

The ALS Assistive Technology Challenge, a joint initiative by The ALS Association and Prize4Life, is offering a $400,000 prize for the development of flexible, accessible technology to help people with ALS communicate with ease. The challenge is open to academics, industry, young start-ups and anyone that believes they can make a difference for people living with ALS.

We are excited to participate in this challenge with the TA-ALS Communicator. For more information please visit http://www.alsa.org/research/als-assistive-technology-challenge-2.html

TA-ALS Communicator video

Stay tuned for updates on this challenge!

We have recently added a new video about the TA-ALS Communicator.

TA-ALS Communicator video

Athletes started it. CEOs embraced it. Politicians supported it. So did showbiz celebrities, rock stars, firefighters, cops, and thousands of men, women, and kids. The ice-bucket challenge went viral on social media this summer, raising awareness and over $100 million in donations for the ALS Association to fund research for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), often referred to as “Lou Gehrig’s disease.”

While the ALS Association is deciding how to best allocate the donations to fund research in finding a cure for the disease, a New Jersey-based nonprofit organization named Technology Against ALS Foundation (TA-ALS), is striving to address the biggest challenge all people with ALS face – to communicate.

The entire paper can be read at Raising Hope with TAALS – The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

Harvard stem cell scientists have discovered that a recently approved medication for epilepsy might be a meaningful treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, a uniformly fatal neurodegenerative disorder. The researchers are now collaborating with Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) to design an initial clinical trial testing the safety of the treatment in ALS patients.

The investigators all caution that a great deal of work needs to be done to assure the safety and efficacy of the treatment in ALS patients before physicians should start offering it.

The entire paper can be read at New Hope for Treating ALS – Harvard Gazette

Arthur Murray Dance Centers proudly presents: At The Movies, a Theatre Night Fundraiser Event for Technology Against ALS.

Saturday August 8th at 7PM
Wilkins Theatre
1000 Morris Avenue, Union, NJ

Join us for our Theatre Night Performance by students and staff of Arthur Murray, NJ. Proceeds benefit Technology Against ALS.

Tickets $25.00 each
To purchase tickets go to: http://bit.ly/1dYynCa
or call (908) 272-7955.

For more information visit us at: www.dancemontclairnj.com or www.ArthurMurrayNewJersey.com