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ABC News in DC: iPhone App Gives Voice to Those Without
iPhone App Gives Voice to Those Without
as seen on ABC News Channel 8 Washington, DC on Thursday, July 16th, 2009 Read the background story on the News Channel 8 site.
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Imagine Symbols
by Samuel Sennott
Do you know about the 4000 Imagine Symbol set that is free for personal use. You can go to www.imaginesymbols.com and download the entire brightly colored set of picture symbols. There are also low cost options to liscense the symbols. Don’t forget that you can load them into your iPhoto library for easy [...]
Wireless Switch from Prentke Romich
by Samuel Sennott
Prentke Romich Company announces a wireless switch that should be nice to see in action next week at Closing the Gap. How many times have you wished for this? The Jelly Beamer is cool, but common, they definitely got it right going with the pervasive Bluetooth technology. It will be interesting to get [...]
Some Favorite Posts on Alltogether
by Samuel Sennott
Including Samuel
ASHA 2007 ALLTOGETHER LAUNCHER
PRC Pictures (3,385 of them) Wow!
Hannah Montana Book,
Skateboarders Ride Transitional Book,
Dogs by Samuel Sennott
You Can Golf
AAC-RERC Webcasts
Video Writing Setups
The Tango Tutorial: An Exercise in Not Reduplicating Training
Connecting Video to Reading and Writing
Tar Heel Reader: An Open Source Library of Talking Books
Padded Head Switches and Loc-Line Mounting Arms
AAC Considerations and the Stages Framework
AAC Consideration Materials and Checklists
Goossens, Crain, Elder Communication Overlay Color Reminder
Art Website Launcher
Math Websites [...]
Connecting Video to Reading and Writing
by Samuel Sennott
Connecting video to reading and writing is powerful. Last summer, I saw that power so clearly in the camp program I led. The camp was your basic extended year program revamped into a fun literacy based camp. One of the classrooms had mainly children with autism spectrum disorders. When [...]
Super Switch Hitter by Switch-in-Time
by Samuel Sennott
Do your students want to play a fun, interactive, and engaging switch accessible baseball game? Mine do too! Check out, Super Switch Hitter, the latest terrific release from Switch in Time. The amazing Jon Adams has done it again, adding to the famed accessible music softwares Switch Ensemble and Switch Jam. I [...]
Seating and Positioning for Individuals Who Use AT by Aileen Costigan
by Samuel Sennott
Back in the series of posts about ASHA 2008 in Boston last November, The Practical Principles of Seating and Positioning in AAC for SLPs conference session by Aileen Costigan and Janice Light was reviewed here on this blog. Recently the project has been added to the rich and expanding list of [...]
Tar Heel Reader: An Open Source Library of Talking Books
by Samuel Sennott
Children, teenagers, and adults need books to be able to learn to read and getting accessible books to them is the goal of the Tar Heel Reader. This open source library of books that are switch accessible, talking, internet accessible, and downloadable will grow exponentially due to the terrific job Gary Bishop, [...]
