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The Memletics learning styles inventory provides you with a guide to your own personal learning styles. By asking a series of questions, and then scoring the results, it indicates which are your dominant and secondary styles.

Our online learning styles inventory has 70 questions and provides a graphical results page. You can also share your results with other users and compare yourself with your peers*. Over 1 million people have done this test!

" Building a communication book might seem intimidating, but just requires a bit of thought and time. The results will greatly benefit you and your students."

Links to content by subject area available in iTunes U. Click a link to launch a specific search result in iTunes U

"The tyranny of small decisions refers to a phenomenon explored in an essay by that name, published in 1966 by the American economist Alfred E. Kahn.[1] The article describes a situation where a number of decisions, individually small in size and time perspective, cumulatively result in an outcome which is not optimal nor desired."

On January 23, 2012, researchers and education thought leaders convened in Washington D.C. for Handwriting in the 21st Century? An Educational Summit to discuss research and opinions regarding the role of handwriting instruction in the 21st century classroom. (Watch videos of the researchers' presentations to learn more.) Now, just over a year later, a major shift in focus about the role of handwriting instruction in 21st century schools has occurred since the Summit. A white paper is available which highlights the results of the summit.

The Cologne Communication boards and binder are the result of the application of research results on the language use. The first and foremost goal with the Cologne Communication Boards and Binder is to support the language development of the AAC user.

The results of this research add to the evidence regarding the effectiveness of using AAC with people with an ASD (Mirenda, 2001; Schlosser & Blischak, 2001), and adds to the knowledge of why AAC systems are potentially beneficial for children with autism, (The National Standards Report). Effective teaching of motor plans, using the LAMP theory, can be seen to allow for increased storage and retention of symbolic information, resulting with more automatic communication over time, and reducing the cognitive demands associated with analysing and choosing from different symbol sets, as described in the LAMP Manuals (Halloran and Emerson, 2006: Halloran and Halloran, 2012).

Day Institute at NEA on UDL. Results compiled into Wiki.

"Sometimes you may want to limit your search results to a specific reading level. For instance, a junior high school teacher looking for content for her students or a second-language learner might want web pages written at a basic reading level. A scientist searching for the latest findings from the experts may want to limit results to those at advanced reading levels."

"The purpose of the NJC is to advocate for individuals with significant communication support needs resulting from intellectual disability, that may coexist with autism, sensory and/or motor limitation."

Free online audience response system that uses SMS text messages or the web to answer questions with real-time results.

education templates in MSOffice!

free ebooks using and representing core vocabulary

a tool to help people with autism

Results All participants exhibited a positive increase in multisymbol message production almost immediately upon introduction of the LTM prompting procedure.

"Windows Speech Recognition lets you control your PC by voice alone, without needing a keyboard or mouse. The following tables list commands that you can use with Speech Recognition. If a word or phrase is bold, it's an example. Replace it with similar words to get the result you want. For info on how to set up Speech Recognition for the first time, see Use speech recognition."

Washington Post Article - Specific parts of the brain are activated when children try to comprehend sentences. Scans allow researchers to measure that process.

DVC Learning Style Survey for College has a good introduction, four categories of styles (visual/verbal; visual nonverbal; tactile/kinesthetic; auditory/verbal), and a self-assessment web-based tool. Results/scores are based upon 32 questions.

KidsClick! is a web search site designed for kids by librarians - with kid-friendly results Pictures, Sound, and video, too