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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!

Video on accessing language in Boardmaker

Pictures provide wonderful visual supports to support content. This cheat sheet created by the Loudoun County Assistive Technology Team shows how to quickly insert pictures in MS Word tables so that they remain the correct width for your table columns...no resizing needed!

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When we don't understanding someone, listeners tend to respond with phrases like "What?", "Can you say that again?", or "I'm sorry, I didn't understand you." This often prompts the student to repeat the phrase again in the same way without understanding why the attempt failed in the first place. Reply in a way that provides the student with a strategy for how to improve the communication attempt. Use a phrase like "Say that again using different words" or "Say that again slower" to prompt the student to use synonyms, descriptors, or a slower rate. Pair a hand gesture, like twirling fingers when prompting the use of alternate words or lowering a palm to indicate slowing down, to provide a visual cue

"Boardmaker Plus Resources for Macintosh and Windows (2010)"

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Debbie Schwind and Judie Schoonover article on using art

"ToyBox Tools is a collaboration between Hasbro and The Autism Project helping families, teachers and professionals make the most of playtime."

Flockdraw is a free to use online whiteboard based painting & drawing tool. It makes it easy to draw online free with multiple people for fun or business. You can have unlimited people in a room and the drawing updates in real time. Uses different colors, shapes and text.Start drawing now!

Article describing an overview of different methods for teaching math to students who are blind

L.Find and share stunning public domain images. You can freely use any image from this website in digital and printed format, for personal and commercial use, without attribution requirement to the original author.

This website provides a variety of strategies for introducing core vocabulary to students. Click on the link to "Year of Core Words" for an editable document with 12 grids of core vocabulary words (one grid per month) that you can add your preferred pictures to.