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A collection of teacher and student-made accessible books and extension activities including Boardmaker Books, Clicker Books, Classroom Suite Books, Books for MSWord, and Books for IntelliTools Classroom Suite

"Do you need help in making your computer easier to use? Let's look at the many ways you can make your keyboard and mouse, Windows, the internet and your favourite applications suit you and your needs..."

Interact-AS Communications Suite enables conversations for everyone, anytime, and anywhere. Instead of looking at a keyboard, waiting for an interpreter, or using pads of paper, Interact-AS supports true face-to-face communication with instantaneous speech-to-text translation.

EyeSight by SightTech was developed to be the most intuitive magnification and color enhancement tool in iOS history. Designed specifically to assist low vision users, this new app allows anyone to magnify any printed material up to 12X, simply by using a few hand gestures with their iOS 5 device. Plus, users can toggle through 6 distinct color-contrast combinations to suit their individal preferences and visual enhancement needs.

Boardmaker, Classroom Suite and Clicker downloads

"Talking Mats is a suite of communication tools for children and adults with communication difficulties that helps them to participate more effectively in conversations and express themselves in a visual way. Choose from high-tech Talking Mats Digital, low-tech Talking Mats Original, or use them in combination."

"SEN Teacher provides cost-free teaching & learning resources for students with special needs and learning disabilities. All the resources available or listed here are free for use in schools, colleges and at home. * The Printables Page has a selection of printable worksheets, handouts and teaching aids most of which can be customised to suit a range of learners. * The Links Page lists websites which have been carefully selected for the quality of their information or because they provide further excellent sources of cost-free learning resources and software. * The Files Page lists free educational software from many sources which has proved useful to teachers and parents of special needs students. * Search Tools are custom Google search engines which make it easier to locate free resources and information from several different SEN related areas."

"SEN Teacher provides cost-free teaching & learning resources for students with special needs and learning disabilities. Many resources here may also be of use to educators of primary and elementary students. All the resources available or listed here are free for use in schools, colleges and at home. * Printables has a selection of printable worksheets, handouts and teaching aids most of which can be customised to suit a range of learners. * Web Links lists websites which have been carefully selected for the quality of their information or because they provide further excellent sources of cost-free learning resources and software. * Downloads lists cost-free educational software from several sources which has proved useful to teachers and parents of special needs students. * Search Tools are custom Google search engines which make it easier to locate free resources, video news and information related to special needs teaching."

"EduApps is an initiative developed by the JISC Regional Support Centre Scotland North & East and consists of four different collections of incredibly useful software: * AccessApps provides a range of solutions to support writing, reading and planning, as well as sensory, cognitive and physical difficulties. * TeachApps is a collection of software specifically designed for teachers or lecturers. * LearnApps, as its name implies, is specifically designed for learners. All learners or students can benefit from LearnApps. * MyStudyBar is our new kid on the block, providing a suite of apps to support literacy. Currently we host over 90 open source and freeware software applications which can be entirely used from a USB stick on a Windows computer. "

So who wants to test this out and see how it all works? Sounds promising!

Patti, BIll Nellis has develolped PD using these apps. He shows the participants how to create their own Thumb Drive with a collection of AT apps that run entirely from the Thumb Drive. It is a WONDERFUL idea and has tons of application for therapists or AT professionals who travel from school to school.

The name "Twurdy" comes from a play on words with the question "Too Wordy?". The philosophy Everyone has different reading abilities. Some people searching the web are university professors and others are 5 year old children. Twurdy has been created to provide people with access to search results that suit their own readability level. What does it do? Twurdy uses text analysis software to "read" each page before it is displayed in the results. Then Twurdy gives each page a readability level. Twurdy then shows the readability level of the page along with a color coded system to help users determine how easy the page will be to understand. The Goal Twurdy's goal is to provide web searchers with information that is most appropriate for them. This will mean that 10 year olds doing school assignments don't have to click through difficult material to find something they can use. It will also mean that phd students do not have to click through websites designed for kids in order to find what they are looking for.

Video tutorials for Classroom Suite V4, SmartBoard and Boardmaker V5

"Special Learning's Autism Communicating Basic Needs app. provides a way for non-verbal children to easily communicate their basic needs and wants using actual photographs of commonly requested items. The categories covered by this app. are: food, drinks, clothing, and activities. The app. also incorporates photographs of emotions and icons of commonly needed / requested items. The Autism Communicating Basic Needs app. includes a very attractive interface and is very intuitive and easy to use for children of all ages. Parents and providers will appreciate that the Autism Communicating Basic Needs app. was developed using the foundation and principles of applied behavior analysis. Among many other features, the app. includes three photographs for each item to teach generalization skills. Four audio options of actual voice recordings allow parents to further customize the app. to best suite the needs of their child. The app. is highly customizable and includes a reporting function to keep track of usage and preferences of the child."

Providing feedback via synthetic speech and Braille, NVDA allows blind and vision impaired people to access and interact with the Windows operating system and many third party applications. Major highlights include: Support for popular applications including web browsers, email clients, internet chat programs and office suites Built in speech synthesizer supporting over 20 languages announcement of textual formatting where available such as font name and size, style and spelling errors Automatic announcement of text under the mouse and optional audible indication of the mouse position Support for many refreshable braille displays Ability to run entirely from a USB stick or other portable media without the need for installation Easy to use talking installer

Links and resources for behavior at school and home, as well as bullying information.