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Patti Porto

Autism Theory and Technology | Media Arts and Sciences | MIT OpenCourseWare - 2 views

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    "This course illuminates current theories about autism together with challenges faced by people on the autism spectrum. Theories in communicating, interacting socially, managing cognitive and affective overload, and achieving independent lifestyles are covered. In parallel, the course presents state-of-the-art technologies being developed for helping improve both theoretical understanding and practical outcomes."
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In Eye Control, A Promise To Let Your Tablet Go Hands-Free : All Tech Considered : NPR - 1 views

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    "Gaze-based interaction has been around for 20 years, used mainly by people with disabilities. But the technology could be available to the masses soon, allowing users to move a cursor with their eyes, or turn the pages of an e-book without lifting a finger."
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BBC Radio 4 - Word of Mouth, Autism and Learning Difficulties - 1 views

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    "Michael Rosen meets parents, researchers and carers to explore the ways we communicate with people with autism or profound learning disabilities. Phoebe Caldwell talks about the principles of "intensive interaction", and why listening and non verbal communication are central to her work. Researchers at the Norah Fry Research Centre in Bristol explain why changing the way we communicate with people with disabilities can challenge preconceptions, and make relationships.."
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iTunes - Books - Reference Guide for Students in a 1:1 iPad Program by Melissa Herring - 1 views

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    "This book is intended to provide reference for students engaged in a 1:1 iPad program. The reference materials include gallery photos, interactive content, and movies that will enable students to use the iPad to its maximum potential. Information regarding basic iPad functions, care and digital citizenship is included."
Patti Porto

Keep Talking! - 3 views

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    "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."
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Autism Curriculum Encyclopedia ACE - 4 views

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    The Autism Curriculum Encyclopedia (ACE) is the culmination of over 35 years of research and practice conducted at The New England Center for Children (NECC), a leader in the fields of ABA and autism. The ACE provides an interactive database containing assessment tools, lesson plans, teaching materials, and student performance reports for over 1,300 skills drawn from the curriculum used at NECC.
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AAC University of Nebraska Lincoln - 3 views

shared by Patti Porto on 10 Apr 12 - Cached
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    "Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) strategies assist people with severe communication disabilities to participate more fully in their social roles including interpersonal interaction, learning, education, community activities, employment, volunteerism, care management, and so on. This AAC website is designed to provide access to a wide range of information and resources related to the AAC effort. It is maintained by the Barkley AAC Center and the Munroe-Meyer Institute for Genetics and Rehabilitation at the University of Nebraska."
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AssistiveWare - Taking the Pulse of Augmentative and Alternative Communication on iOS - 1 views

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    "During Autism Awareness Month, an exploratory survey on Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) and iPads, iPod touches and iPhones was distributed as part of research collaboration between AssistiveWare and professors from the University of San Diego and the California State University at San Marcos. In this blog post we provide an overview of the key facts and findings of the survey that among others revealed that in the opinion of respondents, Proloquo2Go and other full-featured AAC Apps together with Apple's iPad, iPhone and iPod touch can deliver an AAC solution that supports considerable improvements in key areas such as independence, behavior, interaction with others and learning."
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iTaalk Home - 0 views

shared by Patti Porto on 13 Feb 12 - No Cached
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    Interactive technology assisting autistic kids
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instaGrok | A new way to learn. - 1 views

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    "finds age-appropriate educational content on any topic presented with interactive multimedia interfaces generates quiz questions based on student's research activity and skill level supports creation of research journals and concept maps for learning assessment "
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iTunes - Books - Creatures, Plants and More! by Andrea Santilli & Woodlawn Beach Middle... - 0 views

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    "This is an awesome example of what kids can do when they are properly motivated by a skilled teacher. This is an excellent interactive book! Great job and congratulations to all the seventh grade authors and their teacher!!!"
Patti Porto

Educreations Interactive Whiteboard for iPad on the iTunes App Store - 2 views

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    "Educreations turns your iPad into a recordable whiteboard. Creating a great video tutorial is as simple as touching, tapping and talking. Explain a math formula... Create an animated lesson... Add commentary to your photos... Diagram a sports play... With voice recording, realistic digital ink, photo imports, and simple sharing through email, Facebook or Twitter, now you can broadcast your ideas from anywhere."
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Scene&Heard - 1 views

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    "Scene & Heard is a Visual Scene Display augmentative communication aid on the iPad! Scene & Heard is an interactive context based communication aid and learning tool."
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Assistive Technology software Links & headtracker info - 1 views

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    "Below is an extensive list of AT freeware and shareware programs along with a few of the more modestly priced ones. These programs are designed to make interacting with a computer easier."
Patti Porto

Instructional and Educational Videos, Animated Explanations, - Explania - 3 views

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    Welcome to Explania! Watch hundreds of animated explanations, interactive tutorials and instructional videos, and feel free to embed them on your own web pages.
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Wiki Summarizer - 0 views

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    "WebSummarizer automatically creates summaries from web pages, documents and plain text. The summaries consist of the most important content and keywords. WebSummarizer presents the summaries as a structured outline and as a Visual Summary. The Visual Summary and the structured outline are interactive content maps that users can navigate in their browsers by keywords to instantly see the key summaries in context. "
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A Beautifully Simple Comic Book for the Blind | Wired Design | Wired.com - 0 views

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    "Braille has come a long way since its invention in the 19th century, but it's still tough to apply it to the highly-visual storytelling we see in comics. This realization led Phillipp Meyer, a Copenhagen-based interaction designer, to create the first comic for the blind."
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200 A Day the Easy Way: Putting It Into Practice - 1 views

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    "Recent research indicates that individuals who are nonverbal need to be presented a minimum of 200 opportunities a day to interact. In this project, we created 200 communication opportunities every day for students through training, modeling, and offering a data tracking system, resulting in more competent communicators."
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instaGrok | A new way to learn - 0 views

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    "Research a topic with an interactive map Customize it with facts, links, and videos Share it to show what you've learned"
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instaGrok app - 0 views

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    "instaGrok is an educational (re)search engine that lets students (any anyone else) research any topic in an engaging, visual way. instaGrok finds the best information on the topic and presents it as interactive concept map ("grok"), showing key facts, concepts and relationships, videos, images and more. Users can pin their favorite materials to their grok and take notes in the built-in journals."
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