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"Echolilia: A Father's Photographic Conversation with His Autistic Son Timothy Archibald uses his camera to find an emotional bridge to his son Photographs and text from the book Echolilia: Sometimes I Wonder"

"This is how Garver lectures these days: He gives his lectures alone, at home, on his own time, into a microphone" Garver instructs his students to listen to one or more of the mini-lectures in preparation for each class

"Alan Martin performs his poem This Chair Is Not Me at a 1 Voice Winter Weekend. Alan runs music and dance workshops for people with disabilities, acts on TV, and does a lot of work for Disability Rights. He composes his own music for his dance workshops and other performances"

"Rob Gorski is a husband and father of 3 boys on the Autism Spectrum. Gorski began his writing career in June of 2010 with his multiple award winning blog Lost and Tired: Confessions of an Autism Dad. Recently cited as the 3rd most influential Autism Blogger on the internet by Dr. Oz's Sharecare website, where he is an expert on Autism. His mission is to create dialogue, spread Autism Awareness, educate the public on how technology can benefit a special needs family and do so in ways that society can relate to and understand."

"In the FCTD's newest AT in Action video, you'll meet Nick, a young entrepreneur who owns his own lawn-care business. Nick uses assistive technologies, both low and high tech, that aid him in driving and accessing his laptop computer and tablet."

"we wired our home with microphones and cameras and started recording, with various carefully designed privacy protections in place. The goal was to capture all verbal and non-verbal interactions between him and his caregivers (my wife, our nanny and I) and understand the contextual environment around his language development."

Camera Mouse is a free program that enables you to control the mouse pointer on your computer screen just by moving your head. Camera Mouse is designed to help a person who cannot use his hand to control the mouse but who can voluntarily move his head. To use Camera Mouse 2009 you need a standard USB webcam (for example, a Logitech Pro 9000) and a Windows Vista or XP computer. Camera Mouse 2009 is easy to learn and easy to use. And, Camera Mouse 2009 is absolutely FREE.

Hi! This is your website. It's got lots of great books to see in sign language and subtitles. Hearing family and friends can listen to the stories too. You can all watch together! We'll add more books. So keep coming back to see what's new.  Tell your friends … click on the windows… explore…and have FUN!

"Welcome!!! MrMatt.Org is a free website designed to help educators with assistive and educational technology services. The site contains the opinions of Matt Connell, Educator and Assistive Technology Specialist, and has no connection with any specific developer or service. Matt Connell is an Early Childhood and Special Education teacher in Western Kansas. In addition to teaching three- and four-year-olds with special needs, Matt is also the co-chair of his district's Assistive Technology team."

"This website is intended to provide information about the provision of assistive technology (commonly referred to as "AT") in the K-12 school setting, to Illinois educators and parents. The determination of a student's need for AT, selection of the appropriate AT, implementation of AT services and ongoing support for a student using AT is an critical process requiring many individuals, including a wide variety of school professionals as well as the student and their parents or guardians, to work together to determine how the student can best meet his or her educational objectives."

"This website is intended to provide information about the provision of assistive technology (commonly referred to as "AT") in the K-12 school setting, to Illinois educators and parents.  The determination of a student's need for AT, selection of the appropriate AT, implementation of AT services and ongoing support for a student using AT is an critical process requiring many individuals, including a wide variety of school professionals as well as the student and their parents or guardians, to work together to determine how the student can best meet his or her educational objectives."

"Digital storytelling is a first person story, where the narrator is digitally sharing his or her story; while a digital story is narrated in third person and shared digitally. Both can include imagery, background music, or motion. They also incorporate storyboarding, writing a script, revising, and publishing (the elements of writing)."

"Joshua Littman, a 12-year-old boy with Asperger's syndrome, interviews his mother, Sarah. Joshua's unique questions and Sarah's loving, unguarded answers reveal a beautiful relationship that reminds us of the best-and the most challenging-parts of being a parent."

"This book aims to supply a few ideas and activities that could be useful for a youngster who uses AAC, by: Providing a reason to make sure that the Talker is always out of its bag, charged up, and on the table/wheelchair mount ready for daily use; Filling up some of those gaps in the school day with constructive and fun activities Helping the youngster to learn and practise - in other words, use - his or her Talker to enjoy interactions with others and build up useful social and communicative experiences."

Great speech from a great user of AAC about his own personal history intertwined with the history of AAC

"How it works: I give the bus driver a stack of 'report cards' at the beginning of each month. Each morning he checks the appropriate boxes (and sometimes writes notes about the previous afternoon) and gives the paper to the student. The student delivers the paper to me (or classroom teacher) on the way to class each morning. If the student has met his goal at the end of the week, he receives a reward. "

Our name, Connective Technology Solutions, reflects what we do best - seeing the connections between hardware, software, and solutions on how they can be utilized together. Most important is how they can address the needs of individuals from teachers and support professionals to students. We provide professional development, training, support and educational materials connecting current technology and the solutions enabling everyone to succeed. Dan Herlihy is a national conference presenter on topics ranging from Creating Access on the Fly, Working with High and Low Incidence Disabilities, Creating Access to the Arts and Using Digital Images in the Classroom as a Teaching and Learning Tool. He is also an IntelliTools Training Specialist, and has written books and articles on technology integration, as well as producing CDs of educational activities for students. His expertise is in taking diverse technologies, and connecting them together to provide solutions for access.

Mapping Media to the Curriculum is a website created by Wesley Fryer to accompany and support his eBook, "Playing with Media: simple ideas for powerful sharing." 

"We love this document that Mark Anderson has produced for a training day at his school in North Somerset, UK. It succinctly provides the name of Web2.0 tools and gives you examples of how to use them. From our experience teachers did need quick, easy and fast ways to connect to new technology ideas. We think Mark achieves this very well!"