{"id":13242,"date":"2012-05-24T09:41:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T13:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=13242"},"modified":"2012-05-24T09:41:36","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T13:41:36","slug":"ceoathlete-who-regained-his-sight-will-address-wright-state-disabilities-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/05\/24\/ceoathlete-who-regained-his-sight-will-address-wright-state-disabilities-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO\/athlete who regained his sight will address Wright State disabilities workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13244\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/05\/24\/ceoathlete-who-regained-his-sight-will-address-wright-state-disabilities-workshop\/mike-may2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13244\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13244\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13244\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2012\/05\/Mike-May2-260x208.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Michael May\" width=\"260\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael May was blinded at age 3 by an explosion. He underwent a rare stem cell transplant in 2000 and recovered partial vision after 43 years of total blindness.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The man who holds the downhill speed skiing record for a totally blind person and whose company developed the first accessible GPS for the blind will be the featured speaker at a national workshop hosted by Wright State University.<\/p>\n<p>Mike May, co-founder and CEO of Sendero Group, will address the \u201cLearning FROM Disability\u201d workshop at 5 p.m. on May 31. His talk is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The two-day workshop, held May 31-June 1, will examine research into technologies to empower people with disabilities. Topics include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blindness and Low Vision: Navigating the environment and the web<\/li>\n<li>Movement Disorders: Biomechanical engineering solutions<\/li>\n<li>Motor Control Disabilities: Brain-computer interfaces<\/li>\n<li>Traumatic Brain Injury: Monitoring, compensating for and understanding the neurological bases of cognitive impairments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keynote speakers include May; Dr. Michele Wheatly, provost of West Virginia University; and Dr. Forouzan Golshani, dean of the College of Engineering at California State University, Long Beach. Both Wheatly and Golshani are former Wright State officials.<\/p>\n<p>The Learning FROM Disability Workshop is being held as part of Wright State\u2019s Technology-based Learning with Disability Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training Program, which is funded by the National Science Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>May was blinded at age 3 by an explosion. He underwent a rare stem cell transplant in 2000 and recovered partial vision after 43 years of total blindness. It was one of only a handful of documented cases of vision restoration in the past 200 years.<\/p>\n<p>May\u2019s experiences have been chronicled in Robert Kurson\u2019s best-selling book <em>Crashing Through<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>May\u2019s address on May 31 will be held in the Gandhi Auditorium of White Hall at the Boonshoft School of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, call 937-775-5121 or 937-775-5123 or email <a href=\"mailto:clark.shingledecker@wright.edu\">clark.shingledecker@wright.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man who holds the downhill speed skiing record for a totally blind person and whose company developed the first accessible GPS for the blind will be the featured speaker at a national workshop hosted by Wright State University. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/05\/24\/ceoathlete-who-regained-his-sight-will-address-wright-state-disabilities-workshop\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":13244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,725,715,719],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-home-news-sidebar","category-news","category-special-categories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13242"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13248,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13242\/revisions\/13248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}