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"MyTalkTools Mobile Lite is a fully-functional version of MyTalk Mobile with 20 cell capacity, using one or two boards. Using the 20 cell capability offered by MyTalk Mobile Lite, users can gain comfort with the MyTalk Mobile Lite and MyTalk Workspace, our online (authoring) board building tool. Using MyTalk Mobile Lite, experience the ultimate in customizable communications. If you find that MyTalk Mobile Lite provides the right solutions, but you would like the increased capacity of 32,000 cells, consider MyTalk Mobile. MyTalk offers ease of use and time-savings in a portable, effective, and cool communication tool. MyTalk helps people communicate in a whole new way. "

"This is why I created a free ebook, Effective Mobile Learning: 50+ Quick Tips & Resources with helpful tips and several resources to help support this trend. One reason is because mobile devices are designed in a way that forces the teacher to give control to the learner. When we equip a classroom with iPads, iPods, small tablets, or cellphones the learning is literally put in the hands of the students. The teacher has to facilitate and walk around the room to manage the learning. Below are a list of 50+ Mobile Learning resources & growing!"

Tony Vincent's Learning in Hand - Blog - "Nowadays teachers and students have a variety of ways to show what they know and to express themselves. Take a look at some of the hottest online and mobile tools for showing, explaining, and retelling in my infographic, "Show What You Know Using Web & Mobile Apps." These tools can turn students into teachers and teachers into super-teachers! Furthermore, most of the apps listed in the infographic are free of charge."

"At Matia Robotics, we created the Tek Robotic Mobilization Device not as a wheelchair alternative, but as a brand new mobility platform that completely reimagines the way individuals with paraplegia and other walking disabilities are able to move in the world. The ability to independently and safely sit, stand, and navigate environments that were once inaccessible, is now possible, safe, and available soon by reservation."

Our Challenge: Support teachers in using mobile applications effectively to improve student learning. Our Solution: The apptivities website at http://www.apptivities.org/ We ask our ADE colleagues to contribute your apptivities, a specific learning activity using apps on mobile devices. A key part of our vision for apptivities is to provide media resources that give a "view" into best practices in the classroom. apptivities: Models for successful instructional practices with mobile devices It's the application of apps for learning.

"The Texthelp Web Apps provide support tools that will work within multiple browsers (e.g. Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome, Firefox) on mobile devices including iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone, and other mobile devices, as well as on PCs and Macs. Users will benefit from having Read&Write GOLD features they are familiar with along with instant accessibility and mobility with these powerful web support tools."

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"Mindwave Mobile is the world's least expensive research-grade EEG headset available. It interfaces with mobile devices (iOS and Android) and your desktop computer and can be used to play a variety of games, brain trainers, and educational apps. It's the ultimate introduction into the world of brain-computer interface. Can you control a game with only the power of your mind?"

"MOBILE DEVICES & COMMUNICATION APPS: An AAC-RERC White Paper The Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Communication Enhancement (AAC-RERC) offers this paper as a means for raising issues related to mobile technologies and AAC Apps and to encourage discussion and collaboration among AAC stakeholders. "

"It's a features chart that could be used when a family or an IEP team is considering Mobile technology of any kind.   The idea is to start with the tasks that the student needs to do and then discuss what features a tool would have if it was used to support student achievement for those tasks. So-tasks across the top and features for those tasks down the left side.  And hopefully, for this part, we would not really talk about specific tools."

There are many features and capabilities of mobile devices that need to be considered when trying to find a phone that meets your accessibility needs and preferences. These features are unique to each individual and have been organized here in a form of a checklist that will help you think about the mobile phone features you need.  The checklist is grouped as follows:

Achieve Tablet lets readers be themselves, as well as part of a crowd, with a mobile, text-to-speech device that looks great on any desk and fits in any bag. With touch-screen and gesture-based scrolling, page turning, and zooming, readers can succeed in totally new and intuitive ways. Capturing text is as easy as taking a picture with the Tablet's camera. Then reading happens with synchronized text highlighting and audio playback. With Achieve Tablet, readers can also download Achieve Software for Windows* or Mac* and turn a school or home desktop or laptop into a full-blown digital library.

"TextGrabber + Translator turns your mobile device into a multifunctional mobile scanner with translation capability. It can extract text from a variety of printed sources by using the device's camera. With TextGrabber's quick text capturing and translation features, you can digitize printed information and translate it into your native language anywhere anytime. "

"Greetings and welcome to the Digital Wish eBuilder, Beta Testing Program! We're excited to have you be among the first to try out the eBuilder, a new digital authoring tool that lets anyone publish books, lesson plans, and content for both Apple and Android mobile devices! With the tool, authors can easily bring instructional content to their mobile devices with just a few easy steps."

"KanPlan is a task management system for kids and teenagers, it helps kids visualize and manage their tasks and homework using a mobile device. KanPlan teaches kids a workflow process based on Kanban, an AGILE and visual methodology used in the software engineering industry to manage projects. This methodology has been simplified and made fun, easy and pleasant for kids to use everyday. KanPlan can be used as a standalone mobile application, or as a collaborative system with parents, family members, friends and teachers.

$99.99 "The highly anticipated KNFB Reader converts printed text into high quality speech to provide accurate, fast, and efficient access to both single and multiple page documents with the tap of a button on the iPhone. Picture accuracy is facilitated by a Field of View Report, Automatic Page Detection, and Tilt Control. Our app allows users to capture pictures of virtually any type of printed text, including mail, receipts, class handouts, memos and many other documents that you may encounter. Proprietary document analysis technology determines the words and reads them aloud to the user with high quality text-to-speech and Braille access. Individuals with print disabilities will benefit from the synchronized speech and text highlighting capabilities. KNFB Reader will revolutionize access to print materials for the mobile professional and busy student by providing advanced state of the art mobile reading technology in a single hand-held device. "

"ATMac, posted a round-up of disabled user's experiences with the iPad, which according to the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) in the UK was found to be highly accessible and probably the best mobile device on the market. "

"The cre8txt keyboard mimics a mobile phone text keypad and so captures the skill that nearly all of our young people have taught themselves and turns that into a benefit you can use in the classroom. The keyboard also comes with word prediction software, the same sort of assistance that young people are used to when composing messages on their mobile phones. "

"Looking for styluses for individuals with a mobility impairment (this is for you Phil!)?  Here is what I found as possible adaptive styluses for quadriplegic or individuals with limitations in grasp or strength:"

"We have been doing a lot of  reviews of educational  mobile apps. We particularly focused on the ones that work on iPad and we tried to cover almost all the fields from digital story telling to apps to teach creativity. Our purpose is to provide teachers with a repository of apps to choose from  when trying them with their students in the classroom. Check out the categories below and click on any title to access the correspondent apps it contains. Enjoy"