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"WHY ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY MATTERS Assistive technology, whether something as simple as a pencil grip or as complicated as a communication device, has the power to change lives and opens doors of opportunity for people with disabilities. The TIKES Project helps to open these doors for parents and providers by educating them on and promoting the use of assistive technology with children and students with disabilities ages birth to 5. Assistive technology can support young children in building skills, increasing participation in activities, promoting development, enhancing learning, and boosting self-esteem"

Research suggests changing the icons size and location decreases the speed and accuracy of a person learning to use a speech generating device.

Teach a student to use a communication device to generate language by using the communication device as a model.

Speaker: Debbie Witkowski Presentation: Getting the most from High-Tech AAC Devices In this segment the speaker provides several advantages to prioritizing a focus on Core Vocabulary in AAC devices. These advantages include Core Vocabulary's role in language development, the ability to target multiple pragmatic functions, the flexibility of core vocabulary, the fact that Core Vocabulary reduces programming, and the fact that core promotes novel utterance generation.

AAC resource Guide for Teachers. White paper

To get started, go to the Tutorials page and download a free ebook on the accessibility features of Apple's mobile devices, as well as our PDF Tutorials for iPad and iPod touch applications that support students with special needs. The Apps page includes

possible one-button voice output communication device

1. Switch Steps Guide. A PROGRESSION OF STEPS IN BEGINNING SWITCH USE WITH TOYS, ELECTRICAL AND OTHER DEVICES (Copyright 1987, Jana B. Birch). 2. Understanding and Making Sentences - CSUN 2002. A CSUN presentation on using Picture Sentence Match and P

We welcome you to our work-in-progress wiki for supporting iPod devices in education. We welcome you to our work-in-progress wiki for supporting iPod devices in education. Although our focus is K-12, many of the techniques should work for you at any level

Students, teachers and parents can explore easy to remember strategies and mnemonic devices to improve. Tools and resources to enable students with learning difficulties to be better learners

"The Assistive Technology Oral History Project is an archive of pioneers in the field of assistive technology (technology for individuals with disabilities). It includes the histories of assistive technology (AT) specialists including occupational therapists, physical therapists, experts in blind and low vision, special educators, audiologists, rehabilitation engineers, software and AT device inventors, and more."

Step-by-Step communicators can have a whole string of messages recorded onto them. The messages are spoken in the sequence they are recorded by pressing the switch. The device has 75 seconds of recording time.

"For many students, access to the computer requires the use of some assistive input device such as a switch or a touch screen. Priory Woods has developed a range of motivating programs to help students develop the skills needed to use these devices in a meaningful way. Switch 'videos' are simple slideshows animations set to music which can be operated by switch or touch-screen. They feature sounds and images from popular music and TV shows and can be used with pupils of all ages" the videos have been revamped for additional opportunities for switch use

EyeNote is a free mobile device application to denominate Federal Reserve Notes (U.S. paper currency) as an aid for the blind or visually impaired to increase accessibility

While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch sensing enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, as in chording and bi-manual operations. Such sensing devices are inherently also able to ac

Welcome to BridgingApps! Many teachers have found using mobile devices with their students with and without disabilities to be beneficial in numerous ways. However, finding appropriate apps and accessories to meet the needs of your students and your classroom can be challenging and confusing. We view our website as a shortcut in that process. We focus on apps that have been designed to address a particular need or have been creatively adapted by users to meet a specific need. Finding apps is just the first step in an exciting journey of discovery with your students that will involve trial and error. All of the app reviews on our website have been conducted by therapists or special education teachers, and they have been trialed with someone who has a disability. We invite you to explore these pages to help you find the tools you need to get started and to share best practices with us on your journey of discovery.

"We believe that it is more important to focus on the person who will be using the technology, rather than the device itself. We assume that you are here because you want to improve a skill or creatively compensate for a deficit that may be preventing a person with a disability from maximizing their highest potential."

The Iowa Center for Assistive Technology Education and Research (ICATER) is proud to announce that many of the resources that we offer including our AT app webinars and archives and AT Tips of the Day are available as part of a free app for the iPad. The ICATER Toolkit is available in the app store and aims to provide AT resources to teachers on their mobile device.