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APTE's new Literacy Suite is a collection of applications & teacher resources designed to meet the needs of visual learners. The program is aimed at special education. The applications provide students with a platform to create their own projects with words, pictures, & videos. [ISTE Learning & Leading With Technology, June/July 2010, Vol. 37 No. 8]

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.

This informative, fast moving presentation will describe the revolution in computing that is occurring around us and how that change will affect the people who use assistive technology as well as those who support them. From Apple's iOS (the operating system used on the iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad) back to the One Laptop per Child XO, this session will give participants the background knowledge to understand what the new technologies consist of, how they work, and how they can be used to help students. A review of how the iOS can be used in the following domains will be provided: assistive technology, communication, literacy, learning, organization, and play.

The HollyRod Foundation is having a Holiday 2010 program where they will be supplying iPads to children with autism who are limited or non-verbal. Encourage parents of eligible clients/students to apply today!!

many out of copyright classics, often assigned to high school students. human voiced, works with MP3 player

"A collection of teacher and student-made accessible books and extension activities. " Available for Boardmaker, PowerPoint, classroom suite, Clicker

Zac Browser is an interface that simplifies and blocks aspects of sites which may make it difficult for autistic students.

Diigo group for teachers who work with students who have autism.

supports students in writing lab and class reports. Has built in Text to Help supports.

"The Accessible Book Collection is a non-profit corporation. Our primary mission is to provide high interest/low reading level digital text to qualified persons with disabilities. Government and non-profit schools and others can subscribe to the very affordable Accessible Book Collection and have a large selection of e-books for all their eligible student. "

"The National Center for Supported eText (NCSeT) at the University of Oregon is a federally funded research center investigating the impact of "supported electronic text" (or supported etext) on students' comprehension of content area material. Supported etext is digital text that has been modified in ways that are designed to increase access and support comprehension. These modifications are categorized by the role they play in the reading process - leading to a typology of eleven types of etext supports (Anderson-Inman & Horney, 2007). The NCSeT Typology provides the conceptual framework for the research supported by NCSeT."