AT Spring 2013- Distance

Information on carseat safety and proper installation, as well as car safety rating information, and recall information.

Nice resource for riding safely with a wheelchair in your vehicle. Provides a step by step guide explaining how to get wheelchair into your car and how to ride safely with someone in a wheelchair in your car. Nice resource section too.

For Question 1A. This website lists the subparts of the ADA and then a description of each subpart. Nice and easy to use.

This website clearly lists the recommendations for car seats and booster seats for children. It gives info about car seat checks and recalls too.

This site is still evolving, but has been developed for young adults to use as they are considering and pursuing employment. There is a section of the site specific to AT.

Product website for Switchamajig IR for adapting devices with an infared remote. A video on the site shows how the product works.

Google Doc site created by Mike Smart of District 287: "This webpage aims to show you 30+ technology tips that can help you teach and work more effectively."

Extensions that can help users with special needs enjoy the web. These tools convert text to speech, enhance colors, and enlarge text and other parts of pages.

Looking for free, fun games and activities for babies, toddlers and young children? CBeebies is the home of fun and educational games for kids to play and learn at the same time. Wonderful sight for games in general, but you can search for switch and special needs.

Jane Farrall, Austrailia, complies a comprehensive list of applications for Ipad/Iphone that are switch accessible. Includes information about the application and how to make it switch accessible.

This website, Disability Statistics, is an online resource for US Disability Statistics. It is created and maintained by Employment and Disability Institute & Cornell U. The URL is an .org, or non-profit organization. The data sources used on this site, include the American Community Survey, Census 2000, & Current population survey. The web page's purpose is to provide public service information related to US Disability Statistics, current disability status reports, statistics, sources, FAQ's, glossary of terms, additional links, & support. The website provides balance, factual information.

bookshare offers free e-books/auditory for persons with qualifying disabilities. a lot of free Webinars, learning modules etc.

PDF-XChange Viewer is an alternative viewer for PDF files that enables you to view and annotate PDF files. You can add text, sticky notes, and other annotations and save them to the file, which will be compatible with the standard Adobe PDF reader. Screen shots included in details, user and peer ratings, product details.

Great Free edition to boardmaker software. its a endless data base/community of downloadable ax's created by a variety of professionals who use board maker, can upload your ax's & share, can dowload, save, print, edit templates and ax's. time saver and great ideas from others out in the "trenches! "

link to writing support option from writer learning. Word processor w/ translation and text to speech etc. Affordable option in lieu of laptops, notebooks and/or tablets. Have found that many of my students on the Autism Spectrum LOOOVE their technology so much (ex; ipads, laptops..) & that they are so good at using it, that it turns into a power struggle. No matter how much security, blocks, etc you put on the device, they often find a way to quickly get out of their "work" and flit around on the internet etc. :) sometimes these WP systems are a good solution to get the writing tasks done legibly & timely. :)

NRSI is a research based educational organization, provide supplies, seminars, staff development. Can find colored overlays..etc. Currently has free 4 wee trial for 10 students of power reading PRO online

this is a great site, where you can sign up to be alerted daily for APPS that are being offered for free daily. On Fridays, typically get 10+ free APPS. APPS are educationally/academically related. Do NOT get bombarded w/ emails from them if sign up, also has free give aways often of iPads, AAC, writing APPS etc..

link to RE&AT PDF/Guide by Andrew Szeto, PhD, PE.

home page for Closing the Gap AT conference. Offers a lot of networking, webinars, links, information etc...VERY good conference for the beginner or advanced AT specialist.