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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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.
Sign Smith ASL – Animated dictionary for iPhone and iPod Touch
Sign Smith ASL is a tutorial and phrase book for American Sign Languane (ASL) from VDCom3D. The program is available in three versions, containing animated phrase books of between 20 and 1200 signs.
Use Stickies To Help You Focus
Are you one of those people who, when trying to just look one small fact up on Wikipedia, emerges 2 hours later with a dazed look because of all the irrelevant new knowledge you accidentally gained? During those 2 hours, should you have been working or studying instead? Here’s a simple idea to help you stay focussed.
VoiceOver For Sighted Users
VoiceOver is a screen reader primarily used by blind Mac OS X users, but sighted people also use it for a variety of reasons, either for themselves or to better support a blind user. So, where would one start with learning to use it?
Simple Keyboard Shortcuts To Save You Time
Keyboard shortcuts are a quick way of getting many things done without needing to access the menus or the mouse. If you know to press command-s to save your work, you’ve used a keyboard shortcut. For people who primarily use a keyboard or a switch interface, using keyboard shortcuts can save a lot of time and effort.
PHOTOsyms – Create Free Communication Boards
Create simple communication boards using digital images with the free PHOTOsyms application. Your image grid can contain between 2 and 54 photos so within the grid limitations there’s quite a lot of room for customisation.
iSign – Animated ASL dictionary for iPhone and iPod Touch
iSign is a tutorial and reference program for American Sign Language (ASL) from iDev2. It was designed specifically for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The program contains an animated phrase book of 800 signs.
Black Friday Apple Deals Internationally
Apple doesn’t often hold sales, but they seem to have gone out of their way to advertise a one-day sale internationally for this Friday – Black Friday in the USA. MacRumours is reporting that Apple retail stores will be able to match the prices of non-Apple retailers, which may mean big discounts for customers.
Mainstreaming Assistive Technologies In Education
Most of the students with disabilities in an educational setting will have some type of print-related disability; having programs that support reading and writing available on all computers limits the stigma for students who need the help and makes these tools available to other students too. Access should be available to everybody.
Using The iPod in Special Education
Louisa Muscatine Elementary school in the USA is using Video iPods to help students with reading difficulties take tests in a regular classroom environment instead of in special ed
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