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Independent workboxes are kind of the meat of my AU classroom. During workbox time, I can observe whether my students have truly mastered skills like I think they have and it gives my students the opportunity to gain some independence with following a system/to-do list without any teacher guidance or prompting.

SOOOOOO many resources "My Best of series I've separated my "The Best…" lists here by topics. A number of the lists, though, can fit into multiple categories, so it still might be useful to scan all of them."

Welcome to Printables by Confessions of a Homeschooler! Click on one of the subject buttons below to see all of the printables for that subject. You are free to print any of the downloads, I offer almost everything on my blog for FREE, I only ask that you comply with my Terms Of Use.

My PECS is your free resource to an extensive library of professional and high quality PECS cards and symbols. Search our catalog to get started.

Students press the "play" button to listen to digital text. Useful for listening to text-based materials that are too high of a reading level. Useful for listening to instructions and test questions. Use as an editing strategy (listen to my own work giving my ears a chance to pick up the mistakes my eyes didn't catch).

Video from CEC 2009 workshop about My Own Bookshelf & how use to help students and educate others

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?

"The ASF Communication Training Series takes all of the hours of great communication workshops and breaks them down into small, digestible parts so that you and your individual with AS can reach her/his greatest communication success at any age. Using web-based teaching, the Series is designed to be sequential and you can join at any time and proceed through the training at your child's pace of learning." A list of webinars, by topic, is here: http://www.angelman.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/ASF-CTS-My-Webinar-Log-by-Topic.pdf

A book about family that uses the word "like" repeatedly!

"Procrastination hack: '(10+2)*5' Merlin Mann | Oct 11 2005 Following on the idea of the procrastination dash and Jeff's progressive dash, I've been experimenting with a squirelly new system to pound through my procrastinated to-do list. Brace yourself, because it is a bit more byzantine than is Merlin 2005's newly stripped-down habit. It's called (10+2)*5,"

"Accessibility Features on My Mac Computer" article and video

This blog is administered by Dodie Ainslie, Coordinator of Instruction at Vestal Central School District. My goal is for teachers and administrators to collaborate on how they are using technology to increase student thinking and learning.

AAC Speech Buddy, $27.99, uses the free Mulberry Symbol Set, 12 TTS voices and online management Discover My Voice, $50.00, uses photos and TTS or recorded voice iAugCom, $4.99, uses white on back communication icons JABTalk,$9.99, uses photos and re

One of my favorite bookmarks of "all time" and will become a main part of my new blog to support trainers!

This site provides accessibility help, enabling computer users to make the most of the internet whatever their ability or disability.

An easy, fun, little project to keep students engaged during Guided Reading: The Giant Googly-Eye Pointer! For the pre-reading set, you can use these to help tracking. For fluent readers, you can use it to ask students to find certain words in the text ("Can you find the compound word on this page? Put your googly eye on it!")

Paws, Claws, Hands, and Feet by Kimberly Hutmacher is a rhythmic rhyming book about animals and how they use their appendages. A book like this is especially helpful for exposing children to a variety of verbs that they may not ordinarily use. When asked to describe what feet can do, many of my lower elementary students would say: walk, run, stand, hop, or jump. After reading this book, they discover that feet can also: cling, leap, dash, roam, etc.