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The purpose of the NJC is to promote research, demonstration, and educational efforts, including both inservice and preservice, directed to helping persons with severe disabilities communicate effectively. TechKnowledgy 09

"All people with a disability of any extent or severity have a basic right to affect, through communication, the conditions of their existence. All people have the following specific communication rights in their daily interactions. These rights are summarized from the Communication Bill of Rights put forth in 1992 by the National Joint Committee for the Communication Needs of Persons with Severe Disabilities."

Links to Ian Bean's free resources to accessible materials, videos and other activities, along with documents and information useful to those working with or parenting young people with severe and complex needs. All of their resources have been virus checked and determined to be safe to download for use at school or at home.

"There are many tools for creating and using graphic organizers, but one great option is Google Drawings. Some benefits include: Loads of ways to add images, shapes, connectors, text, and more Easy to collaborate with partners or for a whole class brainstorming activity Final product can be shared as is, or can be exported in several formats It's free!"

"Special World, from Inclusive Technology, is a free online magazine linking 125,000 special education teachers, speech therapists and occupational therapists in 150 countries. Special World readers and contributors work with children who have additional needs or special educational needs including those with severe, profound and multiple learning difficulties and disabilities" free subscription

Free printable graph paper in several styles.

Wiki with several videos on copyright & fair use. Fair Use Copyright Song. Elementary, Secondary and Higher Ed Case studies

"Effective communication is a fundamental element of life. Relationships, choice, employment, and so much more are severely limited by an inability to communicate. Let's make effective communication a reality for people with disabilities. Join TASH's new campaign, Communication for All. The campaign was created to promote life-long communication for people with disabilities through awareness, professional development, access to communication technologies, instruction, and support. Join the campaign group (members-only) to promote life-long communication for all!"

The purpose of the NJC is to promote research, demonstration, and educational efforts, including both inservice and preservice, directed to helping persons with severe disabilities communicate effectively.

Resources and ideas for teachers of learners with severe, profound, intensive, significant, complex or multiple special needs

This site offers interactive lessons on several topics. Select an academic area, a grade level and find lessons to reinforce what you have taught in class. There is auditory support in the ofmr of text to speech. Nice visuals and movies to teach the students.

This website is designed to assist school teams and families in developing meaningful and functional programs for B.C. students with severe cognitive and multiple physical disabilities within inclusive schools K-12. The strategies, learning modules and other resources in this website are provided to maximize student learning.

"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.  "

"These sites help students read digital and analog clocks. There are several online games and printable pages for students to practice telling time. Includes links to eThemes Resources on elapsed time and time zones."

Several options for listening. Librivox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and publish the audio files on teh internet. The goal is to record all the books in the public domain

Geocaching is a high tech treasure hunt that utilizes a GPS receiver to determine a cache's location. Coaches are hidden all over the world by geocachers who post latitude and longitude coordinates online and challenge other to find them. A GPS receiver can pinpoint one's location anywhere on the Earth to within several meters.

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!

functional activities for children with severe multiple disabilities,

Below is a list of Adapted Literature available through the Sherlock Center Resource Library. These resources are provided for teachers to help students with severe disabilities participate in the general curriculum. available in PDF and PPT format. Over 250 titles! Stone Soup to Pride and Prejudice! http://bit.ly/sherlockadaptedbooks

StoryToolz is a nice assembly of useful tools for writers. Writers who are struggling to come up with ideas for fiction stories will like the story starters featured on StoryToolz. StoryToolz has three tools that you can use to get story ideas; Random Conflicts, Half Title Generator, and Story Idea Generator. To use any of these three tools just select the tool from the main menu then look at the randomly generated idea. If you don't like the options, run the tool again until you get options that you like. In addition to the writing prompts tools StoryToolz offers a few tools to help you edit your work. The Cliché Buster analyzes your work to find clichés that you have used in your writing. The Readability tool analyzes your text to estimate a reading level on several scales.