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ChromeVis is a Google Chrome extension designed to make it easier for people with vision impairments to read the content of webpages. When installed ChromeVis allows you to highlight the text on any webpage and have it enlarged and placed on an easy-to-read background. Your highlighted text appears in a pop-up box over the original page so that you can quickly go back to the original source if you want to. ChromeVis can be adjusted to meet your text size and text color preferences.

Keedogo an ipad keyboard specifically aimed at students.  It also has word prediction and there will be one that is switch accessible 

snap Type App for typing worksheets on iPad

Free This week Epic! offered classroom teachers and school librarians in the U.S. and Canada free, forever, single subscription access to its iPad app, an "ever-growing library of high-quality children's books from some of the world's best publishers."

New smartphone app gives sight to the blind: KNFB Reader is $99.

A very nice explanation of the new accessibility features in IOS 8

Interesting new research into ADHD

CjatAb;e  an AAC a[[

Google Docs Cheat Sheet!  Click on save to your Drive and it will save in your drive 

The videos are very informative about purpose of visual notetaking.  I really enjoyed watching Rachel Smith's video.  This might be an interesting way to teach students who are visual but have problems with handwriting. think about students who can doodle but can't write. 

Ginger will have a keyboard with Apple's new operating system.  It should be interesting

The Harvard Graduate School of Education has launched a new website to share best practices and research with educators, administrators, and policymakers across the nation.   The site, Useable Knowledge, will highlight specifically the work and research of the University's faculty and their co-researchers across the globe.   K-12 and Higher Education content will both be featured on the site.  

App Wheel with app recommendations for student on the Autism Spectrum 

MATch Up,  guides you through determining types of AT team might want to consider for student 

A very nice infographic describing UDL

5 resources for Social Narratives

Time tools for the iPad> how to set the ipad so students can only use it for a specified period of time. 

ssay Map is one of my favourite web tools that I have been repeatedly recommending for teachers. Essay Map, as its name indicates, is a tool that helps students with their essay writings. It is an interactive graphic organizer that provides students with a step by step guidance through the process of developing a robust outline to their essays. Having a clear and well-built outline is definitely a pre-requisite for good expository writing. It gives students' writings focus and coherence needed for developing cogent arguments. Essay Map is ideal for that.

Free UDL Webinar on UDL Myths and Misconceptions 

Understood , a new resource for families of children with learning disabilities .  It launches in August