Variety of Software

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“A child miseducated is a child lost.”

-- John F. Kennedy 

What is assistive technology?

AT promotes greater independence by enabling people to perform tasks that they were formerly unable to accomplish, or had great difficulty accomplishing, by providing enhancements to or changed methods of interacting with the technology needed to accomplish such tasks (Wikipedia)

Video   by the TheDOITCenter Assistive technology and computer applications for people with disabilities

Video Assistive Technology Enabling Dreams

http://www.edutopia.org/assistive-technology-enabling-dreams-video 

Overview of AT Tools and Software

During this class you will be introduced to commercially available software that support students across the curriculum. 

PowerPoint 

Overview of AT Tools and Software 2.ppt

Software that Supports Students

All the software listed here is commercial, and each title is linked to the website of the developer.

Access (Jane) 

• Onscreen Keyboards
• Touch Monitor
• USB Intellikeys
• Intelliswitch
• Switches
• Joystick
• Track Ball
• Zoom Caps
• Fusion
• Neo
• Dana
• Writer

Writing Software (Maureen) 

• Kidspiration/ Inspiration

              Inspiration video 

• Clicker 5/ Clicker Paint
• Kurzweil
• Classroom Suite 4
• Writing with Symbols/ Sym writer
• Cloze Pro
• SOLO
• Word Q 
• Co:writer 

Speech to Text/Voice Recognition (Paul) 

• Dragon Naturally Speaking
• Speak Q

Math (Maureen) 

• Money Skills
• Time Scales
• Number Concepts 1 and 2
• Classroom Suite 4
• Dollars and Cents 
• Scientific Note Book
• Math Type
• Virtual Pencil
• Math Pad Plus/ Math Pad

Reading (Jane) 

• Start to Finish Books
• Balanced Literacy
• Simon Sounds it out
• Word Maker
• Classroom Suite 4
• Writing with Symbols
• Clicker 5/ Clicker Paint
• Cloze Pro
• Essential Skills
• Earobics
• Kurzweil

Switch Software (Jane)

• Linda Burkhart activities for Classroom Suite
• Marblesoft
• Sim Tech
• Inclusive Technology
• Soft Touch
• RJ Cooper 

Vision Technology (Paul) 

Braille Hardware

• Pac Mate
• Braille Note 
• Mount Baton Brailler 
• Romeo Braille Printer 

Vision Software

• Jaws (Screen Reader)
• Magic (Screen Enlargement)
• Duxbury (Braille Translator)

Hearing Technology (Maureen)

• Video of Phonak's Inspiro with Dynamic FM and Dynamic Speech Extractor

• PDF - Radium Sound Field System by Phonak
• Hearing Aids - There are numerous hearing aids on the market today. 
• iPod Touch apps -  iPod Touch - Touching Student Lives in the Classroom
• Personal FM system