This website provides guidelines for teaching literacy skills to learners with special needs, especially learners with complex communication needs
Autism spectrum disorders
Cerebral palsy
Down syndrome
Developmental apraxia
Multiple disabilities.
The
This website provides guidelines for teaching literacy skills to learners with special needs, especially learners with complex communication needs Autism spectrum disorders Cerebral palsy Down syndrome Developmental apraxia Multiple disabilities. The webs
Note: Last upadate to website was in 2012. "This website provides guidelines for teaching literacy skills to learners with special needs, especially learners with complex communication needs (CCN) such as:
Autism spectrum disorders
Cerebral palsy
Down syndrome
Developmental apraxia
Multiple disabilities
This website provides information on:
What skills to teach
How to teach these skills
Videotaped examples of instruction with learners with special needs"
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Welcome to Tar Heel Gameplay, a collection of free, easy-to-play, and accessible games. Each game is speech enabled and may be accessed using multiple interfaces, including touch screens and 1 to 3 switches.
You may create your own games using videos from the huge collection at YouTube.
It's based on creating switch stop/starts in YouTube videos, and you can also set it up with your own videos by cutting and pasting the link. You just don't want to save those home videos to the GamePlay website where everyone searches.
http://tarheelgameplay.org/
It works best if you use it in a Chrome browser, but on my iPad, I've been using it in Safari okay.
Check out some of my favorites -
Disney Princess Medley - from one of my Bridge Camp buddies - A
Ornie the Pig - the stops emphasize action verbs that the character is going to do if you activate the swtich, not just hit the switch to make it go
Nascar pit Stop - if you want lots of switch activations and fast action
and of course, Scat - because who doesn't love ya some Ice Age squirrel thing?
This is a new permanent post listing online switch activities for learners with multiple or significant special needs. The activities listed are chosen because they can be used with switches, they are simple and they are enjoyable. The activities listed a