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Pew Resesearch Center survey of almost 2,500 Advanced Placement and National Writing Project Teachers re: impact of digital technologies on middle school and high school student.

Slick iPad app intended for teaching, and certainly useful in that regard. But think about the writing and digital storytelling possibilities. Write or draw freehand, import photos or images, type text, record audio, share via email. Saves as a video (which captures process).

Ideas for helping students find their own topics instead of using writing prompts.

Simplistic. Good read for undergraduates or teachers with little knowledge of either ADHD or writing instruction or both.

Bookr is a free writing tool. You can easily insert pictures from Flickr, add pages to make longer book. User-friendly. No supports for kids with disabilities, but one more place for parent-child or teacher-child co-construction and conversation. Can't beat the price.

Compilation of alternative. Especially helpful for getting students with significant disabilities writing.

Analyzes text, does word count, keyword and key phrase frequency, and a variety of other analyses. Useful tool for writers and writing teachers. Could use to guide revision of discussion of revision.

Remarkable writing technology created 240-yrs ago by Swiss watchmaker.

Great tool for analyzing student writing, thinking about what a text needs.

Toby Scott' awesome information resource on alternative writing tools for students with disabilities.

Fascinating book review. Book Author is father with Asperger's syndrome writing about his son, who has Asperger's syndrome, and their relationship.

Typing requires teaching if you want to keep the tool from getting in the way of children's thinking. Here's a free way to get started.

Videos, notes, all sorts of instructional guidance for teachers wishing to teach children with significant disabilities to read, write, and do math.

Great resource for teachers of children with significant disabilities.

Consider what this might mean for communication technologies, writing technologies, and reading technologies. Durability, portability, flexibility, cost... Keep your eyes open.

Overview of useful features for teachers using Google Docs in the classroom. Greatest instructional advantages: easy collaboration, easy feedback options either as voice or written comments, and track changes.

Blog entry at Dave Koppenhaver's literacy and disability website about struggling readers and writers.

Remarkable resource for beginning readers, their families, and teachers of beginning readers. Tens of 1000's of digital books that can be read online with or without speech support or downloaded for use offline. Each book can be accessed using multiple interfaces, including touch screens, the IntelliKeys with custom overlays, and 1 to 3 switches. Parents and professionals may write their own books as well, a great way to create materials targeted to the specific interests of a child or student.

The Library. Tar Heel Reader book created from Maya Angelou quote.

First rate article by the artist's wife describing his work habits and discipline in the crafts of writing and artistry. Great insights.

The math, language, communication, reading, and writing online modules created by the Center for Literacy and Disability Studies for teachers of children with the most significant intellectual disabilities.