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Welcome to Texthelp Systems - Accessibility Software.....text reader,text to speech sof... - 1 views

www.texthelp.com/page.asp texthelp reading fluency
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  • karen Janowski on 28 Jan 10
     
    Fluency Tutor Interactive Demo
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Music Improves Brain Function -- Signs of the Times News - 2 views

www.sott.net/...-Music-Improves-Brain-Function music brain skills dyslexia deficits auditory perception
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  • Harvard University researcher Gottfried Schlaug has also studied the cognitive effects of musical training. Schlaug and his colleagues found a correlation between early-childhood training in music and enhanced motor and auditory skills as well as improvements in verbal ability and nonverbal reasoning.
  • "[The findings] suggest that a music intervention that strengthens the basic auditory music perception skills of children with dyslexia may also remediate some of their language deficits."
  • Shahin said that when a person listens to sounds over and over, especially for something as harmonic or meaningful as music and speech, the appropriate neurons get reinforced in responding preferentially to those sounds compared to other sounds.
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  • Shahin's main findings are that the changes triggered by listening to musical sound increases with age and the greatest increase occur between age 10 and 13. This most likely indicates this as being a sensitive period for music and speech acquisition.
  • Tero Toivanen on 25 Jan 10
     
    "[The findings] suggest that a music intervention that strengthens the basic auditory music perception skills of children with dyslexia may also remediate some of their language deficits."
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Assistive Technology Oral History Project - 2 views

www.atoralhistory.uconn.edu assistive specialneeds assistivetechnology specialeducation for:setsig AAC education
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  • The Assistive Technology Oral History (ATOH) Project was founded by Dave Edyburn and Chauncy Rucker in 2007 to gather first-hand accounts of pioneers in the field of assistive technology (AT). The project uses methodology and protocols used by oral historians who seek to capture the rich experiential knowledge base of a discipline or culture. To date, a small group of supporters have created a list of early contributors that we have used to conduct 19 interviews.
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I Need My Teachers To Learn 2.0 | Clif's Notes - 3 views

clifmims.com/...3166 kevinhoneycutt video
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  • karen Janowski on 14 Jan 10
     
    shows reasons to use new media in our schools
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Desarrollan un teclado virtual inteligente para personas discapacitadas - 1 views

manuelgross.bligoo.com/...a-personas-discapacitadas.html teclado virtual inteligente discapacitados comunicación
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  • Tero Toivanen on 04 Jan 10
     
    Un nuevo teclado virtual inteligente para personas con diversidad funcional motora severa que ayuda a comunicarse.
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Adobe - Accessibility Resource Center - 2 views

www.adobe.com/accessibility Flash interactive accessibility
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  • Kathleen N on 31 Dec 09
     
    Accessibility in Flash
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Creature Discomforts » Games - 1 views

www.creaturediscomforts.org/games accessibility disability games
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  • Kathleen N on 31 Dec 09
     
    Accessible games from a site promoting disability awareness
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Blue Microphones | Store - 2 views

www.bluemic.com/...index.php iPodTouch iPhone microphone
shared by Kathleen N on 26 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Kathleen N on 26 Dec 09
     
    Meet Mikey, Blue's new iPod recording device that makes recording lectures, voice notes, live music, interviews and more simple and fun!
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Study: Inexpensive Games Improve Children's Reasoning Ability » Spotlight - 2 views

spotlight.macfound.org/...ve_childrens_reasoning_ability games improve children's reasoning ability learning
shared by Tero Toivanen on 22 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Perhaps the most important finding in Bunge’s data is that the training helped the neediest kids the most. The farther down a child started on the rankings, the quicker and greater was his cognitive improvement. This is extremely rare in education interventions. Usually, smart kids benefit most, and the kids who struggle at the beginning only fall farther behind.
  • Tero Toivanen on 22 Dec 09
     
    Perhaps the most important finding in Bunge's data is that the training helped the neediest kids the most. The farther down a child started on the rankings, the quicker and greater was his cognitive improvement. This is extremely rare in education interventions. Usually, smart kids benefit most, and the kids who struggle at the beginning only fall farther behind.
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