Best SLP Websites

My new resource-sharing blog for sites useful to SLPs- please check it out!

Looking at issues and news related to using apps on mobile platforms for people with disabilities, and in particular for AAC.  Rebecca Bright is a speech and language therapist and is part of tboxapps, developers of Predictable and Scene&Heard.

blog of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

games for spelling - various levels

The pictorial vocabulary guide contains image based pages (les plantes) as well as complementary pages with adjectives, verbs, and expressions (les taches ménagères). Place your cursor over an object or text to hear it pronounced aloud. bulbWhen using the pictorial guides it's best to participate in an active way. Guess the word - even say it aloud yourself - and let the voice you hear be your friendly tutor that either corrects or confirms your guess.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) helps all students progress through the general-education curriculum by reducing barriers to instruction. Find out how SLPs are using UDL to help their students.

ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D pop-up books. Using ZooBurst, storytellers of any age can create their own rich worlds in which their stories can come to life.

Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs: 101 Ways to Use a Sequential Message AAC Device to Access the Curriculum

"TouchChat Lite is a non-communicative configuration of TouchChat that allows for the user interface experience but does not include speech synthesis or any type of audio playback capabilities. TouchChat Lite is for iPhone and iPod users, iPad users should purchase TouchChatHD Lite for iPad."

"The Franklin AnyBook Reader is designed to make any book and interactive, "read to me" book. Essentially you attach special stickers to the pages of books and then when you touch the pen to the sticker it plays back a self-recorded message"

The CFL program's ambitious goal is to make modern computer technology an integral part of every classroom so that every child has the opportunity to be educated to his or her full potential. Note: Schools and educational nonprofit organizations do not pay for excess computer equipment they receive through the CFL program, however, the recipient is responsible for the shipping and handling costs, as well as refurbishing costs.

"Apps for Children with Special Needs (a4cwsn) is committed to helping the families and carers of children with special needs and the wider community of educators and therapists who support them, by producing videos that demonstrate how products designed to educate children and build their life skills really work from a user perspective."

This list is a work-in-progress.

"This blog is a spinoff of sorts, a collaboration between four #slpeeps on Twitter, springing from the goal of developing a centralized location for information on mobile devices and their uses in therapy."

"Welcome to the Tar Heel Reader, a collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible books on a wide range of topics. The books may be downloaded as slide shows in PowerPoint, Impress, or Flash format. Each book can be speech enabled and accessed using multiple interfaces, including touch screens, the IntelliKeys with custom overlays, and 1 to 3 switches."

Tar Heel Reader has thousands of simple story books for students of all ages to read at whatever level. If you are looking for simple text books with topics that are age appropriate, Tarheel Reader is for you.

Judy Lynn Software programs are developed specifically for student with special needs under the guidance of assistive technology professionals, teachers, and therapists.

This site has a lot of options to encourage kids to use their switch in various computer type "games."