Category: Educators
Educators who teach and work with people with disabilities as a part of their job, including special education teachers, teachers with mainstreamed students in their classrooms, assistive technology specialists, and so on.
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Aid Accessibility With OS X Parental Controls
Parental Controls are a feature of OS X which are intended to help parents limit and monitor a child’s computer use. Due to their ability to simplify the computer’s interface they also have potential as an accessibility aid for cognitively impaired users.
Unusually Creative Stands for iPhone/iPod Touch
Everybody has different positioning needs, and people are surprisingly creative about it when they need to be.
MacSpeech Dictate International: Multi-Language Speech Recognition
Finally, multi-language continuous speech recognition is available for OS X. MacSpeech has released Dictate International, which offers recognition in US and UK English, French, German, and Italian. It has been implied that Spanish will soon be added also.
iPrompts Visual Prompting And Scheduling App
iPrompts is an iPod Touch/iPhone program which offers visual prompting tools for people with developmental disorders and language impairments. Kate has written a great review of the program.
Put Emergency Information On Your iPhone Wallpaper
Now that so many people with disabilities have an iPod Touch or iPhone, putting your emergency contact information on the phone’s wallpaper can be a smart idea. This information is available to anybody who turns on your device, even when the device is locked.
iPhone/iPod Touch Voice Commands
Speech commands are one of the great features of the iPhone and iPod Touch. Here’s a complete list of English speech commands for your iPhone/iPod Touch, as well as instructions on how to find the command list if you use a different language.
Proloquo2Go Is A Go!
Proloquq2Go, the groundbreaking Alternative & Augmentative Communication (AAC) program for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch is now available at the iTunes App store.
DIY Interactive Whiteboard with a Wii Remote & Wiimote Whiteboard
With just your Mac computer, a piece of free software, and about US$50 worth of equipment, you can create a touch-screen computer. With a projector too, you can even create an interactive whiteboard.
Voice4Me Basic AAC Program
Voice4Me is one of the free programs available at the SchoolFreeware website. It’s a very basic AAC program for users who have trouble speaking – users can click on a picture to speak the associated text, or type text into a box and then click on the ‘speak’ button.
Proloquo2Go – AAC for iPhone and iPod Touch
AssistiveWare and Sennott Consulting have announced that they are working on a groundbreaking Alternative & Augmentative Communication (AAC) program for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch called Proloquo2Go. It’s expected to ship by the end of March, 2009.
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