"This podcast is devoted to helping parents of children with speech and language delays and disorders. Carrie Clark, a speech-language pathologist from Columbia, Missouri, offers resources, information, and activities about speech and language development and delays. Carrie will empower you to use fun and easy activities to improve your child's speech and language skills at home. Activities and information cover a range of ages, ability levels, and disabilities. Topics covered include: articulation, apraxia, phonology, language, late talkers, alternative/augmentative communication (AAC), autism, stuttering, reading, social skills, down syndrome, following directions, answering questions, grammar, etc. Information is also great for speech-language pathologists and educators of children with speech and language delays!"
"Bookmaking is one of the most satisfying literacy experiences an adult can share with a child. The process of creating a book promotes oral language and fine motor skills, while developing many important literary concepts."
"This website is dedicated to promoting early tactile literacy among blind and severely visually impaired children in their preschool years, and for emerging Braille readers. "
PrAACtical AAC is written by two professors of speech-language pathology, Robin Parker and Carole Zangari, who are passionate about AAC. Our blog is a virtual space where we can muse aloud about the state of the field, share information about implementing AAC strategies, provide resources, and discuss news of interest to the AAC community.
You can read more about our blogging journey here and here.
PrAACtical AAC's Mission: To improve the level of AAC services available to individuals with significant communication challenges by supporting speech-language pathologists and other interested stakeholders-
TBAG works to promote the design, provision and enjoyment of tactile books
for blind and partially sighted children.
On this web site you can find advice and information for everyone about
designing, producing, using, buying and borrowing tactile books. Guidelines for publishers, authors and illustrators of children's books give advice about
small changes that can make a big difference.
Project Gutenberg offers over 36,000 free ebooks to download to your PC, Kindle, Android, iOS or other portable device. Choose between ePub, Kindle, HTML and simple text formats.
Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) ignites young people's Creative Confidence - the ability to harness creative skills to solve problems - using advanced digital media tools and tested storytelling techniques. With greater creativity, and a greater belief in their own abilities, young people will be more engaged in their education and better prepared for a fast-changing global economy.
SymbolWorld is a website created by Widgit Software specifically for symbol users. It has material for all ages and includes news, personal contributions, stories and learning materials.SymbolWorld is designed to be easy to navigate, with the option to personalise the layout and colours to suit any reader's needs.