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This is the moment of the assistive technology Big Bang--that enlightening moment at our charter school where the special education department's framework of instruction began to re-work, re-think and re-imagine all the strategies and tools that AT would give us and how it would allow our students to reach higher potential.

Interactive website where participants can draw their own portrait of Johnny Cash which will them be integrated into the music video for the song "Aint' No Grave"

"For any student having trouble reading material on a screen, text-to-speech technologies can be wonderful. My March 2008 post, "Converting text to and from speech for accessibility and convenience" addressed some of the software options available today for text to speech functionality. Of those, "CLiCk, Speak" is probably the main one to check out. It's cross-platform, works in the FireFox browser as a plug-in, and is free. In addition to those text-to-speech options, the latest version of the Macintosh operating system (OS 10.6 "Snow Leopard") includes the built-in ability to convert highlighted text in many applications into an audio file. Here is an example of a file I created while writing this post, of this paragraph."

"I received a question from a technology director this week regarding different options available for text-to-speech conversion software and web-applications. I'm posting what I know here in hopes that others will be able to chime in with more options."

"Print eye gaze communication frames of various sizes using symbols or text. Templates with 4, 6 and 16 locations are provided. Cut out the central viewing windows and glue pages back-to-back - the talker boards are automatically reversed for the listening partner. Choose a frame style with the top buttons and click the symbols or text on the page to edit the content. This tool supports high quality printing to large format printers up to and including A3 size. Larger printing can greatly simplify use for both communication partners. A fast design of ABC spelling board is also provided. In this method the talker first selects the letter group, then glances at the dot in the appropriate coloured section to qualify the initial letter choice. Letters are arranged and coloured to simplify the second indication stage for the talker."