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"Welcome to the National Center on Accessible Educational Materials. We provide resources and technical assistance for educators, parents, students, publishers, conversion houses, accessible media producers, and others interested in learning more about AEM and implementing AEM and the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS)."

"TEALS (Technology Education And Literacy in Schools) is a grassroots program that recruits, trains, mentors, and places high tech professionals from across the country who are passionate about computer science education into high school classes as volunteer teachers in a team teaching model where the school district is unable to meet their students' computer science (CS) needs on its own."

"The original A Maths Dictionary for Kids is an animated, interactive online math dictionary for students which explains over 630 common mathematical terms and math words in simple language with definitions, examples, activities, practice and calculators. A Maths Dictionary for Kids Quick Reference is a device friendly html version with definitions and detailed examples for over 950 math words and terms."

Want to save time and effort when scoring your students' writing? Use WriQ...and help build a new writing metric!

Money Bingo is a fun and interactive educational game with graphics, animations, and sound effects for students in K-12 to practice counting money. Bingo grid size and level of difficulty (pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and bills) is customizable.

So this year the speech path in our building went to a conference about the core vocabulary board. Before being introduced to this we were solely trying to use the PECs (Picture Exchange Communication System) and with only myself and an aid in the room regularly it was challenging to initially teach the students how to use it. So after she attended this conference she said this may be a great supplement to PECs and may be easier to use with just two adults regularly in the room. 

This wonderful PrAACtical AAC blog explains how to create a large core vocabulary board with Velcroed picture communication symbols to display in the classroom that students can interact with, providing more opportunities for aided language input and practice in using core vocabulary as a group. Includes a step-by-step video on how to create the board.

Pictures of vocabulary words

Each week Night Light Stories does a blog post featuring a visual representation of a word. These posts are done in alphabetical order and help students learn vocabulary.

SEE ME, FEEL ME, TOUCH ME, HEAR ME: Adapting Books for Divergent Learners PowerPoint Presentation Click on this link for a document containing instructions, considerations, samples, resources, specific units, and sites for assisitve technology support materials The A-Z of Adapting Books for Students with Disabilities in Virginia Click on this link for a document filled with resources specifically for adapting books by Ynez Peterson, OTR/L, AT Specialist Click on this link for ideas on how to fill your room with literacy while meeting the needs of diverse learners by Judy Owens and Gerald Abner SET-BC Accessible Books Video demonstrations on creating and FREE accessible books for downloading from Special Education Technology-British Columbia To download, open, edit and print these files, you must have Boardmaker® software , available at www.mayer-johnson.com .

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Great resource to create comics, and encourage students to write!

Description of the Strategy-A-Day Calendar from a blog post

Boardmaker Symbols for Picture Books This is a collection of Boardmaker Symbols to use while reading picture books. Many of the boards are of books in the SET BC Accessible Book Collection. The symbols are 2 1/2 by 2 1/2 inches in size. These could be made smaller, then laminated and cut up to velcro to the book itself. This image is a sample of a board that can be used while reading 50 Below Zero by Robert Munsch. Download as complete zipped file

"The National Education Technology Plan is the flagship educational technology policy document for the United States. The 2016 Plan, Future Ready Learning: Reimagining the Role of Technology in Education, articulates a vision of equity, active use, and collaborative leadership to make everywhere, all-the-time learning possible. While acknowledging the continuing need to provide greater equity of access to technology itself, the plan goes further to call upon all involved in American education to ensure equity of access to transformational learning experiences enabled by technology. The principles and examples provided in this document align to the Activities to Support the Effective Use of Technology (Title IV A) of Every Student Succeeds Act as authorized by Congress in December 2015."

"Here you will find speech therapy materials for speech-language pathologists, teachers, and parents alike!  Check out the great games, cards, and e-books to help you improve speech and language skills in your child or in your students."