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Drummer Reinvents His Way to Rock

Drummer Reinvents His Way to Rock

Look how Origin Instruments helps this drummer reinvent his way to rock. This is one of the best assistive technology stories of the year. This is a must read/watch and share.
Disabled musician reinvents the drum
By Chris Welch, CNN

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Some Favorite Blogs

Here with the best group in the world in Richardson, Texas, we are talking about how to integrate information.  Here are some ways to collect new information to integrate.

Teaching Learners with Multiple Needs http://teachinglearnerswithmultipleneeds.blogspot.com/
Speech Language Pathology Sharing  http://speechlanguagepathologysharing.blogspot.com/
Schuyler’s Monster Blog  http://www.schuylersmonsterblog.com/
Teaching Every Student http://teachingeverystudent.blogspot.com
Teaching All Students: http://teachingall.blogspot.com
Free Resources from the Net for Special Education http://paulhami.edublogs.org

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Stevie's Story on Channel 4 News in Nevada

Stevie’s Story on Channel 4 News in Nevada

We just received this very well done video shown on the channel 4 news: Reno student with autism uses technology to communicate.
Proloquo2Go is featured prominently.

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Sixth Sense and AAC, Literacy, Universal Design for Learning

Adam Bowker and I are having this great ongoing dialogue about the application of a host of new tools that will be become available in the future.   Recently Dr. Light sent us information about Sixth Sense, a MIT Media Lab’s new Fluid Interfaces Group project led by Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry .  The basic [...]

FluidTunes Sets Our Minds Ablaze

by Samuel Sennott
FluidTunes is a free Apple OS X software that uses gesture recognition to control your iTunes library. In other words, by harnessing the power of the iSight camera, the user swipes their hands at the buttons to play the music, stop the music, flip to the next song or flip to the previous [...]

Imagine Symbols

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 [...]

Family Center for Technology and Disability News and Notes: AT & High Incidence Disabilities

by Samuel Sennott
Check out the new Family Center for Technology and Disability article featuring the work of Karen Janowski.
Karen Janowski champions universal design and assistive technology.  It is terrific to see her work being recognized.  Check out her blog too.  teachingeverystudent.blogspot.com
Here is an excerpt:

AT & High Incidence Disabilities: Independence is Her Goal
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SpeakUP SUMMER 2008 ISSUE, FEATURE: Accessible Electronic Books

by Samuel Sennott
It is very pleasing to present the summer issue of SpeakUP, USSAAC’s quarterly newsletter magazine.
USSAAC is the United States Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, the national chapter of ISAAC, the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication.
SpeakUP

NEW SUMMER 2008 ISSUE FEATURE: [...]

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 [...]