"Individuals who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) and their families have new expectations for life after high school, including attending college, becoming employed, managing personal assistance services and transportation, and having intimate relations. However, the vocabulary needed to support these socially-valued adult roles is frequently not be available in pre-programmed devices nor in commonly used visual symbol systems. This website contains vocabulary needed to participate in 8 socially-valued adult roles: * College Life * Emergency Preparedness * Employment * Sexuality, Intimacy, and Sex * Reporting Crime and Abuse * Managing Personal Assistance Services * Managing Health Care, and * Using Transportation "

"Moms With Apps is a collaborative group of parent developers seeking to promote quality apps for kids and families." Of note is Apps for Special Needs and App Friday, where new apps are distributed free each Friday.

"TubeChop allows you to easily chop a funny or interesting section from any YouTube video and share it."

"The Communication Matrix is an assessment tool designed to pinpoint exactly how an individual is communicating and to provide a framework for determining logical communication goals. It was first published in 1990 and was revised in 1996 and 2004 by Dr. Charity Rowland of Oregon Health & Science University. It was designed primarily for speech-language pathologists and educators to use to document the expressive communication skills of children who have severe or multiple disabilities, including children with sensory, motor and cognitive impairments."

"Enter your Lexile measure, select your interests, and find books you'd like to read! Whether you're reading for school or for pleasure, you can use this site to build a custom reading list on the subjects that interest you the most."

"Create smart online flash cards that predict when you'll forget."

"The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public."

Create jpeg images of familiar photos, you write your text in place of the original

100's of DVD covers in jpeg format

"Custom Solutions has been in business since 1996, originally under the name Computers for Learning. We began by providing assistive technology consulting services to schools and organizations in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, along with supporting software and online services. Through our experiences in consulting, we have developed additional products and services that we are offering to the general public. For instance, anyone who is interested in testing or improving their typing speed is welcome to try out our Custom Typing Training online typing tutor, or our ProveMySpeed.com"

he EdTech Locator for Technology Implementation and its related materials are designed to help you evaluate where you stand in the technology-integration continuum. This interactive tool can help you and your Tech Implementation Team assess your level of technology integration, plan a course for further integration and achieve your tech integration goals using targeted resources and supports.

stop action video about what makes AAC work or not work. Uses synthetic speech and cartoon drawings to show importance of core vocabulary

over 12,000 movie clips, you can search, find, view, discuss and share scenes from your favorite movies.

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Major Film studion have agreed to post clips from about 12,000 movies. The clips range from 30 seconds to 2 minutes and are searchable by title, actor, genre or mood -"

You enter Date you will begin the assignment: Date the assignment is due: Subject area of the assignment: and it generates a timeline of activities to complete assignment

Free black and white drawings. wide range of vocabulary. 3717 pictos available

high quality photos and simple text for a wide range of recipes

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009 as at 15 November 2009 This FINAL list has been compiled from the Top 10 Tool Contributions of 278 Learning Professionals worldwide,

"CK-12 has developed an online system for collaborative, custom-collated, self publishable educational content that can be adapted for individualized needs in a digital-age textbook known as a FlexBook. CK-12 website has titles for math, science, technology and history classrooms. To use these resources, simply create a free accoun and you can start to browse available titles and download them for use in the classroom.

A list of articles and sites for funding of assistive technology compiled by Disability.gov