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See.Touch.Learn.™ is a picture learning system designed by professionals specifically for those with autism and other special needs. See.Touch.Learn.™ makes traditional picture cards obsolete. Parents and professionals use See.Touch.Learn.™ to build custom picture card lessons and automatically track their child's responses

It's an exciting time in education - more online learning resources are available every day, and they are more accessible than ever. But it's difficult for students to construct meaning from the wide range of material. So how can students actively engage with the content rather than passively consume it? Ideaphora is the first browser-based knowledge mapping tool that integrates with online content for limitless educational possibilities. Ideaphora enables students to take notes and organize material, connect ideas, analyze information, and apply their knowledge - all in one screen. By building and sharing knowledge maps, students develop higher order thinking skills and visual learning techniques, critical for college and career readiness. Learn more

two resrources for learning about visual notetaking 

create learning pages to memorize/learn. share your page with others.

free resources for learning keyboarding via Chrome

Learn a science-backed pen and paper productivity method to gain more focus, feel more organized, learn more deeply, and think more creatively. 

Words to Learn By is a McGraw- Hill app for vocabulary app that is currently free. 

blog about apps for students with learning disabilities

This website is intented for children to learn English, Spanish, French Italian or German. It has some cute pictures categorized where students can click on the picture and click on the voice to hear the word. This can be used to reinforce reading or basic vocabulary

Accessing and Using the Knowledge Base For the past 12 years I have conducted an annual review of the special education technology literature. This work involves scanning the contents of 31 journals and capturing each article that I think is relevant to the work of special education technology professionals. After reading, analyzing, and indexing each article, I prepare an analysis of this one-year profile of the knowledge base. The purpose of this work is to answer the question, "What have we learned lately?" by Dave L. Edyburn, Ph.D.

A very nice infographic explaining UDL

Two Great Tools to Create Image Based Quizzes ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning.  I like the one that uses Google Docs.  You can  probably include graphics for answers to make the quiz more UDL

A very nice infographic describing UDL

List with links to everything dealing with Google Docs

PrAACtical AAC blog, 

Cruxbot is an interesting new web tool that helps to summarize web pages. With a simple bookmarklet tool, this tool reads through any site - presumably with a large amount of text - and it summarizes the content. The summary can be lengthened or shortened by the user and users can even identify keywords to focus the learning on a particular issue. Very cool idea which works fairly well.

Universal design for learning webpage with blog and hopefully new information to be added

Timed Test Arcade is a full-featured math facts timed test simulator that includes addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, as well as an arcade in the application. Timed Test Arcade provides game play tokens rewarding children as they continue to learn their math facts.

iPads for learning site sorted by catgories and with reviews

Fisher Price ipad case