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Youth identified with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) have deficits in social competence that can lead to problematic social behavior and social isolation. This can lead to a lower quality of life, as well as deficits in other developmental areas such as language and cognition. The iSocial project undertakes research and development to test and advance a set of principles and methods to enable and enhance social interaction for individuals with ASD. The long term aims of the project are to implement a virtual world that supports positive social interaction, enables learning of social competence with transfer to other settings, enables learning of other academic and workforce preparation subjects for youth with social deficits, and supports a community of educators, parents and youth as they address the needs of youth with ASD.

The A.T.TIPScast: Assistive Technology Tools In Public Schools is a podcast about using technology to help students meet their educational goals. Each episode features at least one "A.T.TIP" that can be used to differentiate and individualize the learning process. Christopher Bugaj, the host of the podcast, is an assistive technology specialist, speech-language pathologist, ISTE author, and online mentor.

"Claro MagX turns your iPhone 4, iPhone 5, iPod Touch or iPad into a powerful high definition visual magnifier. MagX makes small items look bigger. Make small text in books and newspapers readable, study and photograph small objects and labels, see menus in a dimly lit restaurant. The wide range of magnification, high contrast and colour viewing options makes the text easier on your eyes. Claro MagX is developed by experts in low vision technology, and we look to use the power of the iPhone and iPad to provide a high performance cost effective alternative to dedicated hand held video magnifiers. MagX leverages the power and quality of the iPhone 5 and iPad iSight cameras, high resolution retina displays, large "

Differentiating instruction is a time-tested way of thinking about meeting students' needs as they make progress toward achievement or learning targets.  Differentiation is an elegant mindset that suggests to teachers a framework that permits them to engage students while focusing on learning results, and digital technologies offer many opportunities to differentiate instruction in meaningful ways.  However, differentiating instruction takes a concerted planning effort on our parts as teachers and teacher educators. This is especially so as we develop a mindset that differentiation can be effective. In this post, I propose a three-phase approach to planning differentiated instruction: Where do we start planning for differentiated instruction with technology, What are considerations for who we teach, what we teach, and how we plan? How do I put it all together?

Itchy, clingy, stuffy clothes are a nightmare for any little one-but when a child is Autistic, has ADHD or is extra sensitive to texture, the discomfort can be debilitating. Enter Soft Clothing. Using specially developed fabrics and tailoring, this label makes kids happy with comfy apparel that looks great, too. 

which aims to develop quality Engineering Professionals who can create a new generation ambience in the infrastructure and construction field and empower them with the most advanced Draughting software REVIT and other designing softwares.

MEP Training is a planned programme designed to improve performance and to bring about measurable changes in knowledge,skills,attitude and social behavior of employees.MEP training makes employees versatile ,mobile,flexible and useful to the organizations. Development is future-oriented training,focusing on the personal growth of the employee. Learining principles are the guidlines to the way people learn most effectively. More effective training in corporates more of these principles.The various types of training include

US Dept of Education National Online Library of Professional Development Resources - good Special Education resources

At Google, we support the education of families on how to stay safe online. That's why we've teamed up with online safety organization iKeepSafe to develop curriculum that educators can use in the classroom to teach what it means to be a responsible online citizen.

AAC and Educational Software for People on the Spectrum - Meet Proloquo2Go Developer David Niemeijer

This video introduces you to Stages Assessment Software, a solution to provide you with all the tools you need to effectively assess the seven developmental stages of cognitive language development in special needs learners. Stages helps you identify and assess your students' skills and abilities, select appropriate instructional software, and document each learner's gains.

The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We are complementing Salman's ever-growing library with user-paced exercises--developed as an open source project--allowing the Khan Academy to become the free classroom for the World. The Khan Academy is all about using video to explain the world, so what better way to explain the Khan Academy than through videos. If you watch four or five of the videos below, you should have a pretty good idea of how we got started and how we hope to empower everyone, everywhere with a free, world-class education.

This form will help in developing a list of apps appropriate for use in speech language therapy!

educational iPhone app for children: sing-a-long, record your own voice, while encouraging cognitive development

This Ning was developed to support a workshop presented by Apple Distinguished Educators at CSUN 2010.

"K-12 has developed an online system for collaborative, custom-collated, self publishable educational content that can be adapted for individualized needs in a digital-age textbook known as a FlexBook."