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Speech Therapist from Australia who developed the PODD

teacher, private consultant and technology integration specialist

Director: Center for Literacy & Disability Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill and former teacher of children with significant disabilities

Dr Gretchen Hanser PhD, OTR, is an expert in assistive and instructional technologies for students with significant disabilities

Professional development for PreK-12 educators. A service of PBS Teachers.

International Society for Technology in Education

ISTE Standards for Teachers

"Graphic organizers are tools that help your brain think." - Kylene Beers

The Colors of My World

My Color-Coded Dictionary

Tar Heel Reader, a collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible books on a wide range of topics.

REACH students' first book on Tar Heel Reader

REACH students' book on colors on Tar Heel Reader

Free website for making online surveys

Free network of K-12 classrooms, for students and teachers to connect and collaborate on projects with classrooms worldwide

Links to favorite websites; organized by the ISTE NETS-T standards

Free animated electronic storybooks to help teach science in a fun and entertaining manner

virtual learning community

website building considerations

search engine, emerging learners

web 2.0 tools

emerging technologies, school, Horizon Project

teacher resources, technology tools,

collaboration website

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009

teacher resouces, glossary, free

Reading and Literacy for Students with Significant Intellectual Disabilities

Top 5 search engines for kids

list of search engines for kids

OT, access, switches

search engine, google, research

online activites, all grades, all subjects

online resources, VA public library

copyright, ethical, curriculum

web 2.0 tools, free

free, certificates

collaborative tool

IT, wiki,

graphic organizer

presentation software

virtual, maps

interactive, poster

word clouds

speaking avatar

file conversion website, free

file conversion website, free

Math games

30 Web 2.0 sites from WHRO workshop

learning styles quiz

web 1.0, web 2.0

parent training, internet safety

graphic organizers

reflective thinking, kinds of,

manual

websites, creativity, NETS-S

comic creator, special needs

list, website, innovation, invention

creativity, innovation, ISTE

websites (and more) to use with students with Intellectual Disabilities

internet research

tutorial, search strategies, website evaluation techniques

web 2.0 tools, NETS

AASL list of free tech tools for teaching and learning

gives the readability of text or a website

Website Evaluation Tools

AT department resources

global project to make and write about a monster

lesson plans

Online manners

guide for teachers and parents to help kids navigate the online world safely

Bloomin Peacock, Blooms Taxonomy

article: Assistive Technology That Supports Students With Disabilities in the Least Restrictive Environment

Updated (2/11) Guide to free web 2.0 tools

a web mix of web 2.0 tools

creative ways to use photos

bookmarking; gifted education

spelling practice

Overview

Instructional Resources

article

Link to my bookmarks on symbaloo, visual layout

article

tutorial

special needs resources

info on AT and adaptive technology

A program of Southeastern Cooperative Educational Programs (SECEP)

Southeastern Cooperative Educational Programs

Website for handouts and more

Websites we use; to share with staff/friends of the REACH Program

Need a switch interface? Make this low tech device for single switch access; see AT Vendors/Methods for Adapting Literacy below

Sample ebook; www.storiesfromtheweb.org (Free site)

stories to watch and read (Free site)

Listening comprehension books and Tales in 6 languages (low cost)

Fee based Interactive Reading & Comprehension for Students with Special Needs and ESL; includes interactive quizzes

10+ non-text switch adapted stories from Inclusive Technology (Free site)

Free educational computer software programs that operate by pressing the spacebar

Free website; Little Kid and Short Stories can be accessed by single switch

online reading material for pre-school, kindergarten and grade 1 students. Free, must register

A fee based ebook collection; interactive book versions can be controlled by a switch

Select 'Try a Book'; a fee based online library of children's classic and contemporary literature

Free website, some stories gender specific

Look for activites with the Click-Through version; free site; click on "next" to turn the page

Virtual Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County, NC (Free site)

Free; Easy to read, accessible books

Free; Online interactive stories; need to know when to use the switch or it will read both pages.

5 books to read; match the letters would be good for Eco-computer training

search for audio files then play to audio file in one window with the book in another window

Free online stories; select to not have the page turn automatically

RJ Cooper software for making cause/effect activities out of websites/DVD's, videos, music like these listed below

Reads stories in 21 different languages (small fee to download)

Free; The Kennedy Center Teams Up with RealNetworks to Put Children's Books Online

Podcasts and audio & video resources for kids & teens to learn from. Some free.

A fee based ebook collection; use App Clicker for non-interactive book versions

Use App Clicker to control the videos; Free

great stories on audio CDs and DVDs to purchase

Sample e-book; Try this with Application Clicker

subscription; listen to books read aloud, read with vocabulary and pronunciation support, and read without support.

Use App Clicker to make these videos switch adapted; Free

a literacy website with animated children's books and more; Free

Designed to help children develop literacy skills while learning about technology in a safe and fun environment.; Free

Stories read to you by well-known actors; use small screen view for App Clicker; Free

You Tube movies of storytellers in action - Free

an ebook store with free books to sample

Listing of websites for Libraries; access TumbleBooks for free from your local VA library

A fee based, online animated storybook collection

a fee based, online read-along book collection

Madalaine Pugliese

search for apps to use

tutorials, etc.

pdf format that can be printed or used from the computer

global project to make and write about a monster

cool project

Creating Literature Based Communication Boards

an activity exchange; Free activities for Boardmaker Products

Classroom Suite Activity Exchange; Free activities for Intellitools products

Provides free tactile learning materials to teachers of children with visual and/or mental impairments

Making Accessible books with PowerPoint 2007

Great overall resources for literacy and adapting books

NYC Dept. of Education; 75+ adapted books and materials created with Boardmaker, Writing with Symbols, and PowerPoint

Parents’ Guide for Fostering Early Literacy Development

Florida resource site for making or adapting books

Check out the task ideas and freebies

750+ books that have been adapted using Boardmaker

Loudoun County Public Schools Resources

Strategies to increase active participation of students with disabilities in school programs

Accessible Instructional Materials - VA

ideas from low tech to high tech

Curriculum Framework Documents assist teachers in understanding essential components required by the ASOL.

Aligned Standards of Learning; VAAP 2011-2012

compiled by VCU T/TAC

Lexile info is designed to help find the best way to grow as a reader - reading text that's not too hard but not too easy

contains AT based activities for the VA ASOLs

Standards of Learning (SOLs)

AT resources

Kids Together, Inc.

AT Training Online

Wealth of info on adapting activities/communication

focuses on switches

Strategies to increase the active participation of students with disabilities in school programs

Accessible Books, What are they?

Wisconsin Assistive Technology Initiative

info about integrating assistive technology into school practice

A booklet about switches and how to use them. Good beginner info

from About.com: Special education

review of adapted computers through the use of assistive technology devices

www.zerotothree.org; reviews early literacy behaviors

www.asha.org

definition of

Check out the handouts on Shared Reading, Predictable Chart Writing, etc

Early language and literacy development begins from birth.

low cost software programs for children who are old enough to bang on a keyboard but cannot to use a mouse

low cost; cause/effect software in 8 languages: english, spanish, italian, chinese, japanese, german, french, portuguese

low cost software program that converts your computer into an Activity Center

Free games that can run by keyboard or switch

Videos are back :) cause and effect/targeting activites and educational programs; great free site!

a song to make us all think about how we use AT

The what, why and how-tos

Activities for children who use a switch

soccer themed single switch game; Click the screen shot to view the online version (See more in Priory Woods link)

8 different premade bingo cards of common sights along U.S. highways; just print and play

move the cursor to paint and click to change colors

Click the screen shot to view the online version

from Fun Brain

also includes Hat and Cool Timer

includes TASH and SoftTouch products; including SLAT, SCATIR (eyeblink) switch with eyeglass mount

Literacy Starters, Read OutLoud, Cause and Effect software - Press to Play or UKanDu

Switch toys, eye-blink switch, etc

What is single switch software?

AT devices & software compatible with single switch activities

Tool for finding educational and assistive technology products for students with special needs.

Encyclopedia for access technology (UK)

Resources for accessible games, single switch toys, etc

Accessible Software for Students with Special Needs

Switch Training