A Word From Katya Hill on Teaching
By Samuel Charles Sennott
This is a new category of post, called A Word, which will usually be more personal in nature and kick off a series of more practical and resource based entries.
Teaching is a terrific vocation. Being able to help learners with communication, literacy, technology integration, and inclusion is such a gift. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
On-Screen Keyboard in OS X
Do you know how to activate the on-screen keyboard in Mac OS X? Here is a pdf of a visual guide to the process. On-Screen Keyboard in OS X
In Leopard, OS 10.5, I had a bug that made the Keyboard Viewer not availabe in the Input Menu. I looked up a fix [...]
Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress 2007 Conference
Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress 2007 Conference
Inspiration and care is what was found at the 2007 Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress Conference. Driving two hours through treacherous ice, snow, and slush brought me to downtown Worcester this past Saturday and to the conference location at the DCU Center. Originally, I was motivated to attend [...]
Writing Block
I remember vividly last summer when one of my students came into summer camp with a message for me. She told me that the beans we had planted in the spring, had grown well and that she ate some of them through her tube the night before. Not only did I think [...]
