Catalogs of Low Tech Products for People with Disabilities:

• AbleData
• AbleNet
• Access Ingenuity
• AliMed
• Allegro Medical
• EnableMart
• Evriholder Products
• Express Medical Supply, Inc.
• InfoGrip
• JRS Medical
• Kingston Rehab Supply
• Low Tech Solutions
• North Coast Medical
• Sammons Preston
• Smith & Nephew
• Therapro

PowerPoint & Presentation Tips:

• Dave's Presentation Tips (new for 2025)
• Accessible PowerPoint and Presentation Tips
  • Make your PowerPoint presentations accessible to people with disabilities
  • Making your conference presentation more accessible to blind and partially sighted people
  • Search for "oral presentations" + blind
• 5 Ways to Ruin Your Next Presentation
• 8 PowerPoint Train Wrecks
• 8 More PowerPoint Train Wrecks
• 8 Tips to Ace Your Next Professional Presentation
• 10 PowerPoint Tips: Keep Your Audience Awake
• Avoid "Death by PowerPoint"
• Bite the Bullet: Improving Your Presentation Strategies
• Cogent Communicator: Presentation Skills – Beyond the Basics - Susan del la Vergne
• Conquer stage fright with this strategy
• Effective Oral Presentations - 245 Kb pdf file
• Elevator Pitch Examples - for Students - for Engineers
• How to Captivate Your Audience with Your Technical Presentation
• How to Master Professional Speaking
• How to PowerPoint Like a Pro
• Microsoft Office Training Resource Library
• PowerPoint can kill
• Presentation Skills by Lale Byquist
• Presentation Tips by Dr. Joyce Moser
• Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds
• Public Speaking for Engineers by Harry T. Roman (MP3 - 22:19)
• Q&A with Author of The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs
• Slideshow Presentation Tips
• Stanford Oral Communication Program - Resources for Graduate Students
• The Engineeering Presentation - Burford J. Furman
• Tips and Techniques for More Confident and Compelling Presentations
• What You Should Know about PowerPoint Presentations
• When Giving a Speech Don’t Just Stand There Like a Mannequin!
• Your Words May Not Matter, So Stand Up Straight

Report Writing Tips:

• Dave's Report Writing Tips
• Five Ways Engineers Can Improve Their Writing
• How to Write an Abstract
• Information on Writing Project Reports - Burford J. Furman
• KYSSURWAV: Tips for Better Technical Writing
• Producing Positive Disability Stories - Haben Girma
• Tips Help Engineers Write Well by Jon Titus - Part 1 - Part 2
• Writing for Success (Volume 1 - Designing for Success) - Tom Moran - 1.48 Mb pdf file

Teams and Team Building:

• More Diverse Personalities Mean More Successful Teams - Doug Wilde

Interacting with and Writing about People with Disabilities:

• Languaging Disability: Where do 'Ability' and 'Dis/Ability' Fit In? - Sharon Wachster
• The Three Principles of Disability Etiquette - Gary Karp
• Social Etiquette for Interacting with Persons who are Blind
• Producing Positive Disability Stories: A Brief Guide
• Designing with People
• Disability Language Guide
• Writing about Disability
• Reporting and Writing about Disabilities
• Guidelines for Reporting and Writing about People with Disabilities
• Glossary of Acceptable Terms
• Style Guide
• Disability Etiquette: How to Interact with People who have Disabilities
• Disability Etiquette - Tips on Interacting with People with Disabilities
• Person First Language 101
• People-first language - Wikipedia
• Writing about Accessibility

Library: - These documents and media are available for student loan

Books

• Seating and Wheeled Mobility: A Clinical Resource Guide - Michelle L. Lange and Jean L. Minkel (won as a raffle prize at RESNA 2018)

• The Pop-up Book of Phobias - Gary Greenberg (donated by Andrea Brand Sanchez)

• Rehabilitation Engineering Applied to Mobility and Manipulation - Rory Cooper (donated by Larry J. Leifer)

• Design for Independent Living - Raymond Lifchez & Barbara Winslow (donated by Larry J. Leifer)

• Books Written and Donated by Barbara Beskind:
  • Powder Keg: A personal memoir of growing up a Knickerbocker and the family history of how they came to be
  • Flax to Freedom
  • Touches of Life in Time and Space
• Books Donated by Peter Axelson:
  • Designing Sidewalks and Trails for Access - Review of Existing Guidelines and Practices
  • Designing Sidewalks and Trails for Access - Best Practices Design Guide

Media

• Moment by Moment: The Healing Journey of Molly Hale (DVD donated by Molly Hale)

• Accessible Education for Emerging Populations (DVD donated by Stanford's Office of Accessible Education)

Stanford Engineering Library

• The Engineering Library now has access to the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Digital Library. The complete list of titles can be accessed here.

• In addition, the Library has purchased online access to Make Magazine. To access the online version follow the [link] in the item description in the catalog.

• The Library has added an easier access point for our Electronic Books

Sarah Lester

Mechanical Engineering Liaison

Engineering Library

slester -at- stanford.edu

Product Realization Lab:

• The Product Realization Laboratory (PRL) is an invaluable Stanford resource offering prototype fabrication facilities in support of student design activities. The shops offer traditional machining, woodworking, foundry, plastics molding, welding, finishing, and metrology tools. Additionally, state-of-the-art computer-aided drawing, manufacturing, and protyping systems are available. Students do all their own fabrication. All PRL resources, including instruction and coaching by staff, are available to students enrolled in ENGR110/210. Here's how to get started.

• Room 36 - a PRL resource for prototyping, softgoods, electronics, and hands-on creative adventures

  Huang Engineering Center - map

  Dan Somen, Lab Manager

  dansomen -at- stanford.edu

  650/721-9472

Other:

• Disability Resource Guide
• ME113 - Where to find stuff
• ME210 - Useful Links and Info
• PRL - Supplier & Materials databases
• Lathrop Learning Hub - loans video and computer equipment and prints posters