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Cool Tools Session w/ Dan Herlihy and Samuel Sennott at Closing the Gap
Dan Herlihy and I are very excited to present a session:
Dan & Sam: Cool, Free, or … You’ve Gotta Have It Applications!
at Closing the Gap! Date: Fri, Oct 16, 2009 from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Here is a preview of the presentation.
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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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Penn State Literacy Website
http://aacliteracy.psu.edu
Literacy Instruction
for Individuals with Autism,
Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome
and Other Disabilities
Janice Light & David McNaughton
The Pennsylvania State University
Run, don’t walk to checking out this awesome website full of exemplars of students with complex communication needs learning to read and write. The website comes out of the longitudinal research of Dr. Janice Light and Dr. David [...]
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
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 [...]
Restaurant of AAC Dreams
by Samuel Sennott
Check out this London restaurant reported on by Engadget. How fun would it be to go here with people using AAC? And if they had some scanning/ alternate access options. Fun dreams.
London restaurant claims fame with touch-sensitive tables, colorful menu projectors
by Samuel Axon, posted Oct 8th 2008 at 2:36AM
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ArtenSPEAK Text to Speech
by Samuel Sennott
Check out the text to speech application ArtenSPEAK for Mac and Windows. It’s not Kurzweil, but it works.
From the website: ArtenSPEAK is a simple application that speaks text. You may drag or paste text into the ArtenSPEAK text area and when you depress the loudspeaker button the text will be read to you. [...]
Disney Interest Bookshelf
by Samuel Sennott
My friend and co-worker authored these Disney Interest books.
You can access the bookshelf here
Kim Possible
Thats So Raven
The Proud Family
High School Musical
Hannah Montana
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Introducing the Vantage Lite from Prentke Romich
by Samuel Sennott
It is exciting to report the arrival of the Vantage Lite, the newest AAC device from Prentke Romich Company. In my early childhood classroom program we have been greatly appreciating the Springboard Lite. The most important advantages of the Lite series in general is that they are physically lighter, have brighter backlit displays, [...]
