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The Actuarial Foundation supports mathematics achievement among students in grades 4-12 through an array of educational initiatives. The Foundation inspires this new generation of "math skilled thinkers" by delivering educational resources and activities tailored to students and educators. All of these lesson plans, discussion materials, posters, online activities and competitions are free! Browse these math resources by subject area, or view the Foundation's classroom materials by title.

Comic Strip Generator

This is a great tool to get students motivated to write. Once they realize writing can be fun they will want to write more!

The graphics provide wonderful visual prompts that inspire students to create text and story content.

Make your own comics! Great for literacy, story starters, social situation stories and more!

Create free customizable graph paper using the online templates and save as PDF files.

Word Cloud Generator

Chris and Melissa Bugaj partnered with Eliza Anderson to create this slidedeck for a presentation on authentic writing experiences at ATIA15

Invite students to fill in the brackets with decisions, characters from stories, character traits, books, podcasts, movies, teams, or anything else! This site will create a PDF with a visual of brackets like you'd see at a tournament.

Invite students to create their own hero. Then use that hero to inspire appropriate behavior, as a writing prompt, or more!

HeroMachine lets you unlock your inner artist, enabling you to create professional-looking illustrations even if you can't draw a straight line. Just choose a pose, then pick a set and genre of items and click to add them.

Fast and easy way to create a bibliography! You choose the format! Easy as 1-2-3

While this informatation is hosted on the Dynavox site, there are pdfs, websites, and videos that may be generally useful when seeking communication solutions. be sure to check out the AAC Needs Assessment, accessed by doing a search on the posted link. The Implementation Toolkit was designed for you! It provides hundreds of real-life resources and examples that promote successful communication in daily life using AAC. Use the resources for your personal growth or to train others. The resources found in the Toolkit cover topics related to AAC, its users and the people who support them. A variety of print materials, as well as instructional videos, feature essential information about AAC, lesson and therapy plans, techniques for communication partners, an introduction to our language software, InterAACt, and much more! The Toolkit is easy-to-use and will save you valuable time. Learn about common AAC topics using the "Learning Paths" tab, and find resources quickly using the "Search Resources" tab. You can also save selected resources to "My Favorites" so you can access them efficiently each time you visit.

Welcome AAC and General Assistive Technology lovers. Here you will find information, materials and sites of interest related to AAC and AT. Of particular interest is the use of core vocabulary to support students with language and communication disabilities. Also featured is training materials related to computer access methods and training of those methods. This is a work in progress by a school-based AT Specialist. Data is updated when I have the time! Please go to the discussion tab to leave me a message or make comments. Enjoy! Barb Cannon Site Owner and AT Specialist

Hereward College is a general FE College in Coventry providing both day and residential places. We welcome all students including those with diverse and complex support requirements. In addition to residential students, day disabled and non disabled students also attend the College. We promote an all-inclusive, broad and balanced curriculum, which provides all students with relevant and challenging learning opportunities. We are actively encouraging learners with disabilities and able-bodied students to work together in order to help personal development, improve social skills, build self-confidence, develop teamwork and support independence for both the disabled and non-disabled students.Feedback from students has shown us that they like the inclusiveness of the College population. Whatever your interests and needs, you can pick and mix from a wide range of courses and services to enable you to develop your skills and confidence and follow your dreams, regardless of any disability, impairment or learning difficulty. We are based in Coventry with all the exciting venues and opportunities that a city has to offer and close to excellent transport networks (55 minutes from London by train).

"This site is compilation of vocabulary lists, evidence based research articles, questionnaires, communication grids, visual supports, video clips and general information from a variety of educators and therapists close to home and around the world.  The Assistive Technology Team at Region 13 would like to keep this site dynamic, ever growing and up to date.  As the field of technology rapidly increases and changes, the ESC AT team needs to rely not only on information obtained from within but information provided by the educational teams it serves.  

Below is a list of Adapted Literature available through the Sherlock Center Resource Library. These resources are provided for teachers to help students with severe disabilities participate in the general curriculum. available in PDF and PPT format. Over 250 titles! Stone Soup to Pride and Prejudice! http://bit.ly/sherlockadaptedbooks

GREAT RESOURCE for Core Vocabulary and implementation and general AAC support See Core Samples for a nice variety of boards in a variety of symbol sets

Core vocabulary resources

There is a rapidly growing body of research that demonstrates the positive effects of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) intervention on the communication of children and adults with complex communication needs. Despite the positive impact of many AAC interventions, however, many individuals with complex communication needs continue to experience serious challenges participating in educational, vocational, healthcare, and community environments. In this paper, we apply the framework proposed by the International Classifi cation of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) to illustrate the need to re-think AAC intervention to improve outcomes for individuals with complex communication needs, and to foster a new generation of intervention research that will provide a solid foundation for improved services. Specifi cally, the paper emphasizes the need to take a more holistic view of communication intervention and highlights the following key principles to guide AAC intervention and research: (a) build on the individual ' s strengths and focus on the integration of skills to maximize communication, (b) focus on the individual ' s participation in real-world contexts, (c) address psychosocial factors as well as skills, and (d) attend to extrinsic environmental factors as well as intrinsic factors related to the individual who requires AAC.