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Assistance Resource System (K-STARS) projects funded through a Title VI-B grant from the Kansas State Department of Education's Student Support Services. The mission of the KISN is to assist Kansas school districts in building their local capacity to serve students with neurologic disabilities within the framework of a multi-tiered system of support.

"Magnify and change the color of any selected text. Use the mouse or the keyboard to move the selection around the page. This extension magnifies any selected text on a webpage. The magnified text is displayed inside of a separate lens and preserves the original page layout. You can change both the lens text color and the lens background color."

"Learn about assistive technology for people with reading disabilities, low vision, blindness and other disabilities that make reading, writing and other tasks difficult. Written by someone who uses assistive technology to read and write."

The content in this wonderful literacy resource combines strategies with how to videos and other training materials. More content is coming soon with potential to grow the resources in the future. While the focus of the content is deaf-blind education many of the strategies are applicable to students with vision or hearing loss and multiple disabilities. Click the Main Menu tab at the top to access all of the resources.

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.

"When you create books in iBooks Author, use these guidelines to make your books accessible to the visually-impaired."

"It has been said that technology has made the world smaller, but for the blind or those with poor vision, iDevices are opening up a whole new world. This AppList highlights some of the most innovative and entertaining apps available to the vision impaired."

"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."

GW Micro announces free Window-Eyes initiative for users of Microsoft Office

"MirrorCase owners will find many more uses for their iPad than ever before. Use the MirrorCase at school or work to record lectures, meetings and seminars. Now, you can focus while recording sessions with the ability to play back material at a later time."

"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."

Blog from an teacher of students with visual impairments and an SLP focusing on AT

" guests with visual disabilities will be able to explore Walt Disney World theme parks in a whole new way. Using a Disney-designed Assistive Technology Device guests will now be able to explore the parks accompanied with an audio description of all the sights. "

"Months after he was born, in 1948, Ron McCallum became blind. In this charming, moving talk, he shows how he is able to read -- and celebrates the progression of clever tools and adaptive computer technologies that make it possible. With their help, and that of generous volunteers, he's become a lawyer, an academic, and, most of all, a voracious reader. Welcome to the blind reading revolution."

"Accessible Apps This is where you can find the list of most of the apps and services we've covered on the HTB2 blog and podcast. Some of the apps we've covered are no longer accessible so they will not be included. We know we are far from having a complete and comprehensive list of every accessible app but we only post what we've covered."

"AIM Center videos can be useful resources to build awareness and knowledge of issues related to accessible instructional materials. The videos cover a variety of topics and perspectives and are available for individual use or to incorporate into workshops and other learning opportunities"

$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. "

story on a student who is blind and his family's story