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karen Janowski

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

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    Fluency Tutor Interactive Demo
Tero Toivanen

Music Improves Brain Function -- Signs of the Times News - 2 views

  • 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.
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    "[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."
Patrick Black

Assistive Technology Oral History Project - 2 views

  • 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.
karen Janowski

I Need My Teachers To Learn 2.0 | Clif's Notes - 3 views

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    shows reasons to use new media in our schools
Tero Toivanen

Desarrollan un teclado virtual inteligente para personas discapacitadas - 1 views

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    Un nuevo teclado virtual inteligente para personas con diversidad funcional motora severa que ayuda a comunicarse.
Kathleen N

Adobe - Accessibility Resource Center - 2 views

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    Accessibility in Flash
Kathleen N

Creature Discomforts » Games - 1 views

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    Accessible games from a site promoting disability awareness
Kathleen N

Blue Microphones | Store - 2 views

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    Meet Mikey, Blue's new iPod recording device that makes recording lectures, voice notes, live music, interviews and more simple and fun!
Tero Toivanen

Study: Inexpensive Games Improve Children's Reasoning Ability » Spotlight - 2 views

  • 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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    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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