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Visual supports for the Night Light Story (http://nightlightstories.net) Clementine's Big Mess about a cupid who has lost his quiver and seeks the help of his magical friends for ideas as to where to find it. Supports created by Patrick Black.

Teachers, download the story and listen with your students. Download these visuals/activity for students to use before or afterward!

Tools to help plan out your room.

Podcast episode about tools to help arrange a classroom

Blog post for the A.T.TIPSCAST episode about using Bitstrips to help with pragmatic language

Jamie Martin's site with resources to help students with Dyslexia

Teachers say geocaching can be a powerful learning tool that involves critical thinking, hands-on learning and active engagement. Over the past few years, geocaching has become more commonly used in the world of education. Now Geocaching.com offers more help to teachers who incorporate geocaching in the classroom.

The A.T.TIPScast: Assistive Technology Tools In Public Schools is a podcast about using technology to help students meet their educational goals. Each episode features at least one "A.T.TIP" that can be used to differentiate and individualize the learning process. Christopher Bugaj, the host of the podcast, is an assistive technology specialist, speech-language pathologist, ISTE author, and online mentor.

"Episode #144 features a description of three tools useful for supporting reading by minimizing distractions, providing statistics, and helping to decrease the complexity of difficult vocabulary within bodies of text."

"Here's what's possible tomorrow: Your students are reading (and learning from) stories and articles they couldn't understand today. Each student is working with different high-interest material. Our exclusive Learning Sessions are actively teaching them their own customized word lists. Students are typing, listening, and learning words in context at the speed that's right for them. At Educator Central, you get detailed information that drives smart teaching decisions: learning errors, reading time, and more. Instead of typing and grading, you're designing interventions, putting resources where they're needed, and fostering achievement and learning."

Great video showing the power of "driving" an adapted toy car for mobility. The GoBabyGo project modifies off-the-shelf toy racecars to provide mobility and independence to kids who have difficulty moving on their own. Some tips on adapting a toy car are provided!

"Talking with a person who uses AAC - what to do, and what not to do! - in order to be a good communication partner. What people who use AAC have to say about communication partners."

Use this tool to get the most out of researching on the Web and reading strategically. With your class or on your own, you can become a more effective learner with Strategy Tutor!

Frederick County Public Schools provided 20 tips for using key features and tools in ActivInspire. Several of these tools can help provide visual access for students!

"Primaryhomeworkhelp is the new website for Woodlands Junior homework resources. Hundreds of pages of easy to read information and facts on many homework topics including tudors, victorians, romans, rivers and mountains."

It can be difficult at first to shift from thinking about AAC in pre-programmed phrases and sentences and activity based pages to focusing on using core words. Once the shift is made; however, it becomes easy to look at using core words in natural, everyday occurrences as core words make up 75-80% of everyone's daily, natural language. Listed below are daily activities that typically occur in a classroom and ways to use core words during these activities at the one-word, two-word, and three-word level to help get the thinking process started. Notice how many of the core words and phrases can be used throughout the day in various situations and activities.

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