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The NY Times listens to those who struggle to use their voice…
This goes out to Kara Lynn and her family. Kara Lynn is a mother. She is a mother who has ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease and struggles to use her natural voice to communicate. She is a mother to a son Aiden, who has Down Syndrome, who also struggles to use his voice to communicate. [...]
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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New Website for Proloquo2Go
Proloquo2Go is the new augmentative and alternative communication solution for the iPhone and iPod touch. www.proloquo2go.com has just been updated in anticipation of the release of version 1.0 of Proloquo2Go. There is new and extensive information about who Proloquo2Go is for, what it does, and how it works. There are some terrific stories and quotes [...]
John Wooden TED Talk
I work to transition, or observe the transition(either way you want to look at it), from the comfortable and familiar yet always challenging classroom teaching and technology specialist practice, into doing a hybrid of that same teaching practice combined with research. Not that I didn’t research before, it is just the level, [...]
MCAS…The Front Lines of Standardized Testing with a Father and Daughter
by Samuel Sennott
MCAS….hearing that word ring out after being outside of Massachusetts for a year definitely made me feel funny this evening. Whatever word you have for the standardized testing movement, MCAS, FCAT, or SAT even, many students, families, and teachers all are connected by this concept. I was forwarded this video about a girl [...]
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, [...]
