Author: joanpahisa

Pantalla de Jocomunico

Jocomunico

Jocomunico is a free Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) app aimed at persons with severe speech impairments who use pictogram-based communication methods. The application automatically expands telegraphic language resulting from pictograms into natural language...

En Joan a Tokyo

2018 in Japan

As you will see in the following article, published on Accessible Japan, the leading website for accessible tourism in the country, I spent 2018 in Japan, mainly in Osaka. In the article, you will...

Photo from the marathon

Berlin marathon finisher

On the 25th September 2016, at 98 cm tall, I became the shortest person to finish a marathon. I did it with my handbike at the Berlin marathon with a time of 2h37’47”. Here’s a video...

L'Enric i l'Oriol, directors de Glance Up, i jo al un photocall

Glance Up international tour

It’s been nearly two years since Glance Up‘s premiere and the documentary is nearing the end of its international tour with a total of 9 prizes in film festivals and many more screenings around...

Joan - Tennis Taula

Table tennis

Here’s one of my table tennis highlights video and a summary of my awards in competitions for people with disabilities, for little people (less than 1.50m) and also with people without disabilities. Para Table Tennis (for disabled people)...

Joan @ MiradasDoc

Talks: Overview

At the beginning of 2013 I started doing talks. They are all based on my personal experience, anecdotes from my daily life, my career as an athlete, the working environment and my path throughout...

Joan @ TEDxGràcia

TEDxTalk: TEDxGràcia (video)

My performance at TEDxGràcia (in Spanish) which has the essence, in 10 minutes, of my motivational talks. After choosing the option of closed captions in Spanish, not too terrible automatic English subtitles can be...

Glance Up

Glance Up is a documentary about me, centered mainly around my participation at the World Dwarf Games and also around part of my daily life. I was part of all the production process, so...

Website The Umbilical Cord

Software projects

Here are some of the software projects that I have managed and developed, some of them working solo and others being part of a team. Special mention to Jocomunico, which has its own section...

Team Europe

Sports PTB

Sports PTB is a non-profit organization that I helped to fund in 2014, which, although dissolved in 2018, continues with some of its activities. Moreover, some of the actions that Sports PTB started have...