It’s AAC month! AAC is an important aspect of my job as a special education teacher. What is AAC? AAC stands for Assistive and Augmentative Communication. It can be anything that helps a person communicate. Why is AAC so important? Imagine if you suddenly lost your ability to talk or even use parts of your […]
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Writing guides, bold line paper and 20/20 pens are all low-tech options to assist employees with low vision in completing written tasks, such as writing checks and signing documents.
The XY is a secure tracking tag small enough to attach it to anything you care about and synchronises with your smartphone to enable you to keep track of your item
DIY iPAD Stand
This session will focus on the knowledge and skill needed by assistive technology decision makers supporting students with complex needs, in order to consider, introduce, and teach use of specialized equipment that will allow these students to participate and achieve. The presenters will share what powered systems are currently available and how the programmable electronics and hardware integrate with augmentative systems and computer access, including how we can teach more efficient scanning, mouse emulation, and directed or direct selection with on-screen keyboarding, using case studies.
As I mentioned yesterday, assistive technology is anything/anyone that helps a student make progress. There are three types of assistive technology. Low Tech Assistive Technology is the most common form of assistive technology. Most of these are present in most classrooms and we are unaware that we even provide these accommodations. Low Tech Examples: Graphic...
It seems everyone's obsessed with their cell phone these days and students are often even harder to pry away from their mobile tech devices than their parents. But this doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially when the apps on these devices have an educational purpose. From traditional games, such as Scrabble, which can be used as a vocabulary-building incentive, to Foldit, a game designed by scientists to use crowdsourcing to better understand proteins, to apps that help identify plants and wildlife that are useful on hikes and field trips, here are 10 apps that combine learning with fun, and give you one less reason to have to take that phone away when it's time to learn.
13 simple and brilliant homemade ideas of useful #DIY tools. You can do this from old or unnecessary things.
Light Stick is a modular stick for the visually challenged that incorporates a lot of good features that make it handy. For starters, it has an obstacle sensor at the end of the stick to alert the user of any danger ahead. The modular handgrip detaches to double up as a scanner and can ‘read’
Closing The Gap is an international assistive technology conference and professional development platform for year-round learning.
Amazon.com : Elmo MO-1 Visual Presenter, White : Video Projectors : Computers & Accessories
Most AAC device straps that you can buy are pretty expensive so I decided to design my own. Full tutorial with pictures.
We've closely covered the emerging class of Bluetooth Smart (4.0) low energy devices that have been slowly coming to market. Hippih was...
Weblog publishing tool from Google, for sharing text, photos and video.
Visually challenged people require braille books in order to read. However, not many books are available in braille due to cost and inefficiency. Translating a 500 page book into braille nearly doubles the thickness. EAP is a technology that can dynamically change the surface pattern by way of an electromagnetic signal - simulating braille text.
When we hear the term Assistive Technology (AT), we imagine kids with LD (and other disabilities) mastering previously challenging assignments with the help of the latest and greatest high-tech gadgetry. In fact, we may be doing our children a disservice by thinking of AT in such narrow terms. As defined by the Assistive Technology Act
Find free low-tech AAC resources for adults. Find links and descriptions of sites where you can find pre-made materials or make your own.
*BETTER GUIDE* Use these instructions instead: youtube.com/watch?v=YrrcEO78jboUse a cheap button to make an accessible switch for adapted toys.This project a...
4c Design is raising funds for Eat more, chat more, spill less: a spoon for shaky hands. on Kickstarter! An inclusive spoon designed to reduce spillage, promote social interaction and make a wider range of food accessible.
