OLPC and AAC for the Developing World with Adam Bowker at ASHA 2007
By Samuel Charles Sennott
This poster board session at ASHA was authored by Adam Bowker and Dr. Janice Light, both from Penn State. There is one powerful, clear message that was presented here: that you could never hand a child with disabilities something like a Dynavox Series 5 Device in a developing nation. [...]
Tar Heel Typer: An Open Source Alternative Pencil
by Samuel Sennott
The Tar Heel Typer is an excellent new open source writing tool that is a flexible alternative pencil with word prediction that is both available online and as a standalone download. Created by Daniel Parker, a Computer Science Student at UNC Chapel hill and is a collaboration with The Center [...]
Digital Picture Frame with Switch Adapted Remote Control
by Samuel Sennott
Have you seen a digital picture frame in a catalog, online, or in a store? This emerging technology will make a terrific book reader, photo browser, partner assisted communication tool, and electronic pencil. The good news is that they are quickly shifting to including a remote control with them. [...]
50 Web 2.0 Tools to Tell a Story
by Samuel Sennott
I think that I am going to send Alan Levine some sort of thank you gift. Maybe we should start a pool. Seriously, his wikispaces site highlighting 50 Web 2.0 Tools to Tell a Story is just terrific. This is a great way to share the multitude of tools available [...]
ASHA 2007 Boston Guide
ASHA 2007 Boston Guide
Downloads: ASHA 2007 Boston Guide Word Document
Compiled by Samuel Sennott
I am very excited to attend ASHA 2007 in Boston. Teaching and working in Nova Southeastern University’s Speech and Language Clinic has gotten off to a terrific start. It is so exciting learning more about speech [...]
Dogs by Samuel Sennott
As part of the initial preparations for an accessible books project called Books Please, check out this PowerPoint based book: Dogs, created using images from Flickr and the principles displayed in the Beginning Literacy Framework by Dr. Caroline Ramsey Musselwhite, Dr. Karen Erickson, and Ruth Ziolkowski.
Also, for those interested, this week, the excellent [...]
iJailBreak for iPod Touch
by Samuel Sennott
iJailBreak is the automated tool that unlocks and enables your iPod Touch to use installer.app., the third party application installer. It has become very clear that the iPhone and iPod touch can be used as both an AAC device component inside of a holistic AAC system and as a terrific flexible learning [...]
AAC Considerations and the Stages Framework
By Madalaine Pugliese, Stages author
The Stages Framework is based on a balance between what research tells us about both cognitive and language development and is designed to help us best understand when and how to introduce assistive technology tools and strategies in the learning process. Consideration of how and when [...]
Using the iPhone for Digitizing Books
by Samuel Sennott
We started a E-Book project today that we are correlating with the Building Blocks kindergarten literacy framework. It is very exciting and I can’t wait to share more about it in the future.
So…have you ever come upon a flatbed scanner that seems to be a decendent of a tortoise? Well [...]
Simple Switch Scanning and Voice Output in MS Word 2004 for OSX
Download the Guide: Simple Switch Scanning in MS Word
Wow, I knew Word was cool, but this one got me.
In the Mac OS X version of Word 2004, open up the Speech toolbar by going to View: Toolbars: Speech.
Now open up a chart, like the one I have attached (This one is a reading overlay). Click on [...]
