The television series Exploring Critical Issues, conceived and hosted by Adelphi University, Garden City, New York, President Robert A. Scott, PhD, will air “Adaptive Technologies” this month. Guest panelists will discuss choices for enhancing lives through adaptive technologies, with a focus on the technological advances and recovery techniques available to returning veterans injured in Iraq and Afghanistan and others faced with traumatic injuries and disease-related amputations. “Adaptive Technologies” will include a look at prosthetics for amputees, the latest in recovery techniques, success stories and opportunities, organizations providing advice and counseling, new therapies and more.
Guest panelists include Adelphi staff members Ellen Kowalski, PhD, associate professor of physical education and human performance science, and Robert Otto, PhD, professor and director of the Human Performance Laboratory; Todd Schaffhauser, Paralympic gold medalist and cofounder of the Amputee Walking School; and Eric Schatz, CPO, president of International Prosthetics & Orthotics, Bohemia, New York.
“Adaptive Technologies explores not only the breakthroughs in technology serving those who have been put in harm’s way, but the successful measures taken by society to make their lives fuller,” Scott said. “In this…program, our panelists share their personal experience and their hopes for the future with warmth and perspective.”
The hour-long program will air the weeks of December 5 and December 12 on New York-area channels 29 and 137 (Cablevision) and 296 (Verizon FiOS), on Sundays at 7:30 a.m. EST and 10:30 p.m. EST; Tuesdays at 2 p.m. EST; and Thursdays at 9 p.m. EST. The program can also be viewed online at www.telecaretv.org
