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Use Boardmaker Plus or Speaking Dynamically Pro to build talking note Boards and study guides. Find out more on assistive technology at http://nolimitstolearning.blogspot.com

Episode #46 features another excerpt from the presentation for the Individual Differences in Learning Association in Howard County, Maryland. This excerpt describes WordTalk; a free text-to-speech plug-in for Microsoft Word. The episode features a bumper from Karen Janowski who is an assistive technology consultant, an assistive technology specialist for a school district in Massachusetts, adjunct faculty member at Simmons College, and school board member in her town. She is also one of the innovators behind the UDLTechToolKit wiki, which contains a plethora of resources useful for differentiating instruction.

"Speakbook is an easy to use, easy to learn, communication tool for people who can't speak and can't use their hands.  With Speakbook you can talk using only your eyes. Find out where to get a Speakbook, or download the PDF for FREE here and have it printed cheaply at your local copy shop - or print it yourself at home."

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The Picto4Me Editor is an online application for editing pictograph communication boards for individuals with special needs. The app is free and can be installed via the Google Chrome Web Store

GREAT RESOURCE for Core Vocabulary and implementation and general AAC support See Core Samples for a nice variety of boards in a variety of symbol sets

Core vocabulary resources

to improve communication for verbal communicators when context is unknown http://www.speakingofspeech.com/uploads/Topic_Setting_board.pdf

Aided language modeling: adult models how to use the individual's communication board/AAC system by actually pointing to/selecting symbols to represent words being read from the text Learning how to use aided language modeling during reading activities using strategies; either of the strategies could be used although in the research the RAA strategy was used primarily to model and elicit single symbol responses whereas RAAP strategy was used primarily to model and elicit multi-symbol response. You can use either of these strategies but prompts may be needed for some children. * RAA: using the read-ask-answer strategy to elicit single symbol responses on the AAC system * RAAP: using the read-ask-answer-prompt strategy to elicit single symbol or multisymbol responses on the AAC system

Free downloadable Boardmaker visuals have been created for more than 750 books that can be used as communication Boards or story sequencing cards to talk about the story.

This ever-growing library consists of totes containing a hard copy of a book, a Literacy Planner, a Reading Communication Board, props, and more! Many of the resources created/reproduced come from sites including KizClub (http://kizclub.com) for props, Baltimore City Schools (http://bit.ly/BCSchools) for Boardmaker visual supports, Making Learning Fun (www.makinglearningfun.com) for theme-based activities.

What can you learn from doing a search for "Assistive Technology" on Pinterest?

Here's a collection of free materials we've found or created to help kids with speech disorders communicate at home and in the community

This is a FABULOUS collection and visual representation of interactive sites categorized for many curricular topics and needs. Great for use on interactive white board. All of the best K-5 online, interactive, educational games and simulations in one place! These activities work great with your SMARTboard or interactive whiteboard for whole group or small group instruction or use in the computer lab or at home for individual learning.

At this collaborative board you will find an amazing array of pins leading you back to Top Teacher blogs where the authors are sharing their favorite tips and freebies. We work hard to mix it up every day so you hear from a variety of folks.

Great ideas for making dry erase and white boards, dry erase walls, dry erase activity books, dry erase you-name-it!