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Sesame Street has created a new muppet, Julia, who has autism. This website provides a variety of fun and educational supports for children and families.

Welcome to Tar Heel Gameplay, a collection of free, easy-to-play, and accessible games. Each game is speech enabled and may be accessed using multiple interfaces, including touch screens and 1 to 3 switches. You may create your own games using videos from the huge collection at YouTube.

It's based on creating switch stop/starts in YouTube videos, and you can also set it up with your own videos by cutting and pasting the link. You just don't want to save those home videos to the GamePlay website where everyone searches. http://tarheelgameplay.org/ It works best if you use it in a Chrome browser, but on my iPad, I've been using it in Safari okay. Check out some of my favorites - Disney Princess Medley - from one of my Bridge Camp buddies - A Ornie the Pig - the stops emphasize action verbs that the character is going to do if you activate the swtich, not just hit the switch to make it go Nascar pit Stop - if you want lots of switch activations and fast action and of course, Scat - because who doesn't love ya some Ice Age squirrel thing?

This website shares a wonderful collection of resources. Here are examples of communication resource samples. Communication placemats, books, and other great ideas to integrate communication

A free website (and also available as an App) that allows you to record your thoughts, explore ideas, create galleries and collaborate in a graphic organizer type of way!

While this informatation is hosted on the Dynavox site, there are pdfs, websites, and videos that may be generally useful when seeking communication solutions. be sure to check out the AAC Needs Assessment, accessed by doing a search on the posted link. The Implementation Toolkit was designed for you! It provides hundreds of real-life resources and examples that promote successful communication in daily life using AAC. Use the resources for your personal growth or to train others. The resources found in the Toolkit cover topics related to AAC, its users and the people who support them. A variety of print materials, as well as instructional videos, feature essential information about AAC, lesson and therapy plans, techniques for communication partners, an introduction to our language software, InterAACt, and much more! The Toolkit is easy-to-use and will save you valuable time. Learn about common AAC topics using the "Learning Paths" tab, and find resources quickly using the "Search Resources" tab. You can also save selected resources to "My Favorites" so you can access them efficiently each time you visit.

There are four videos on this website. Each video demonstrates a learned motor pattern over time ending with a video on using an augmentative communication device with core vocabulary.

Welcome to DifferentiationCentral. We've designed this website as your 'go to' place for reliable information and resources that will help deepen your understanding and enhance your practice of Differentiated Instruction. Here you can share your successes with others and find help from experts in the field. We look forward to sharing this journey with you. You may want to begin by learning about how we define Differentiated Instruction.

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.

" A website dedicated to providing high quality teaching activities and games for children with a special educational needs. Our activities are designed to be accessible to everyone including those who access the computer with assistive technology such as switches, touch-screens, mouse and alternative pointing devices including eye gaze."

"Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more."

Website houses animated explanations!

Narrated original, non-fiction picture books support beginning readers of all ages. Features include predictable, rhythmic language; images with clear, familiar subjects; and text that ranges from one word up to a few sentences per page. Our books provide unique audio support to families who speak (or are learning to speak) English, indigenous or foreign languages. Simple audio buttons on each page allow you to hear narrations by native speakers in warm, expressive voices.

offers free digital picture books, with a twist. Parents can not only sit and read these original English texts from the Unite for Literacy website, but also hear them read in a variety of languages. The intent is to eventually support the 300 languages spoken in American homes.

Learn how to insert pictures and clip art from a computer file or a website into a Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, or Publisher.

Website for various math games from addition, subtraction, multiplication, dividion and fractions.

WatchKnowLearn.org is a website with thousands of educational videos for students who want to learn core subjects like math or language arts, to hobbies, career development, and even philosophy. The videos can be grouped by Common Core, age, subject, and even type of classroom.

Create your own Peanuts character on this fun and interactive website. Great for practicing mouse skills and choice-making. After you create your character, you can download it and insert it into a Word document or PowerPoint to provide a visual for creating a story about the character.

An Introduction to QR Code technology which makes the real world clickable like a website

Nice commoncraft video on what a QR code is. Of course, not quite as nice as Mr. Bugaj's homemade video!

Common Craft Video on QR Codes

Make math lessons engaging and interactive! This website provides a link to the free downloadable ActivInspire flipchart on "5 Ways to Use ActivInspire with Math."

"Your FREE, personal website for managing and backing up your communication tools, connecting with your entire communication support team, and sharing communication pages"