Persons with disabilities, educators and medical professionals are adopting the Ergodex technology to help with a variety of disabilities that affect computer use. With the DX1, the ability to improve accessibility and make computers easier to use is adva
Welcome to BridgingApps! Many teachers have found using mobile devices with their students with and without disabilities to be beneficial in numerous ways. However, finding appropriate apps and accessories to meet the needs of your students and your classroom can be challenging and confusing. We view our website as a shortcut in that process. We focus on apps that have been designed to address a particular need or have been creatively adapted by users to meet a specific need. Finding apps is just the first step in an exciting journey of discovery with your students that will involve trial and error. All of the app reviews on our website have been conducted by therapists or special education teachers, and they have been trialed with someone who has a disability. We invite you to explore these pages to help you find the tools you need to get started and to share best practices with us on your journey of discovery.
"We believe that it is more important to focus on the person who will be using the technology, rather than the device itself. We assume that you are here because you want to improve a skill or creatively compensate for a deficit that may be preventing a person with a disability from maximizing their highest potential."
About Noodle
Noodle is the first and only life-long education related search company in the world. We were started in 2011 by John Katzman, the founder of The Princeton Review and 2Tor. Our goal is to provide a recommendation engine to help anyone find educational opportunities at all levels, from K-12 to college, grad school, weekend classes, and professional development.
Searching for the right educational opportunity can be intimidating and overwhelming. Too often this means that students go to the obvious school instead of the right school. We decided it was about time to solve that problem so we created Noodle.
We offer accurate, extensive data on over 150,000 schools and hundreds of thousands of education providers. We help you find it with a personalized recommendation tool. Just answer a few questions and we'll match you with the school, tutor, or educational opportunity that suits your interests, budget, location and general preferences.
You can also check out our Noodlings blog for advice and opinions from experts in their respective fields. It's full of explanations, how-to articles, top-10 lists and news related to all things education, from parenting to admissions to careers. We want to give you the knowledge you need to act on your educational interests with confidence.
We know Noodle will revolutionize the educational search process by offering great information, data, and advice to everyone at no cost. But Noodle is a work in progress and always will be. We're always adding, updating and refining Noodle's data and search tools; and we need your help to keep getting better. Please let us know what you think about our data, recommendations, or the site in general so we can keep learning too.
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"LAMP Words for Life AAC Books and Activities
Below are a series of files I personally created for children to learn vocabulary. which goes with various books and o
Realize that vocabularies vary if any customization has been done to the device, so your child's vocabulary may not directly match the sequences represented in the files, however, the sequences will likely get you very close to the correct sequence."
"At Microsoft, we envision a future where people with permanent disabilities or situational limitations have the technology they need to work efficiently and independently from any device. We're committed to helping people of all abilities access information and have fulfilling interactions everywhere, both in person and virtually."
"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."
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." - Buckminster Fuller
"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What
is essential is invisible to the eye." - Antoine de Saint Exupery, The Little Prince
The goal of this manual is to help you to improve the world of a person with autism. You don't need to
become a professional therapist to help. It is enough to remain a parent, teacher, aide, caregiver, or
interested friend.
Episode #101 of the A.T.TIPSCAST features a brief discussion about what comes next in one's personal quest to learn more about the implementation of the Universal Design for Learning framework.
For more than 20 years, Boardmaker has been the go-to solution for providing symbol-based learning materials to students with special needs. Boardmaker Online is a complete system for delivering personalized instruction and therapy while also measuring student progress.
Learning styles are a way to help improve your quality of learning. By understanding your own personal styles, you can adapt the learning process and techniques you use. This site is dedicated to helping you better understand learning styles, as well as providing an easy way to discover your own styles.
resource for parents of children with learning and attention issues.
See the world through your students' eyes
Understood's Through Your Child's Eyes is a one-of-a-kind tool. Its videos and simulations allow you to experience what it's like for your students to struggle with reading, writing, math, organization or staying focused.
Hear stories from children and find out from experts why these tasks can be so challenging for some kids. And learn strategies to help your students thrive.
Create your personalized experience on Understood.org now. http://u.org/1nWvuWK
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.
"Augmentative Communication, Augmentative
Communication News (ACN), distilling the ongoing research, exemplary
practice, and new development activities in the field into a practical format
that made it possible for clinicians, students and teachers to translate ongoing
research and development into immediate practice. For fifteen years (1994-2009)
Michael B. Williams, a gifted writer who himself relies on augmentative
communication tools and strategies, wrote, edited, and oversaw the publications
of Alternatively Speaking. This newsletter was written by and for people
with complex communication needs and covered topics of personal and immediate
interest to individuals who benefit using AAC. Alternatively Speaking provides straight talk on key issues, from the perspective of people who rely on AAC.
Every single issue of these two seminal
publications in the field of AAC is now available"
Hereward College is a general FE College in Coventry providing both day and residential places. We welcome all students including those with diverse and complex support requirements. In addition to residential students, day disabled and non disabled students also attend the College.
We promote an all-inclusive, broad and balanced curriculum, which provides all students with relevant and challenging learning opportunities. We are actively encouraging learners with disabilities and able-bodied students to work together in order to help personal development, improve social skills, build self-confidence, develop teamwork and support independence for both the disabled and non-disabled students.Feedback from students has shown us that they like the inclusiveness of the College population.
Whatever your interests and needs, you can pick and mix from a wide range of courses and services to enable you to develop your skills and confidence and follow your dreams, regardless of any disability, impairment or learning difficulty.
We are based in Coventry with all the exciting venues and opportunities that a city has to offer and close to excellent transport networks (55 minutes from London by train).