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- Example of a local AT Team building people's awareness
- What's Math Talk?
- New UDL resource for faculty
- New meaning for a tongue ring:Tongue-operated AT!
- Technology Tuesdays are back for 2008-09
- Pixie 2
- What's the difference between assistive and adaptive technologies?
- Raise awareness about AT
- Assistive technology resources in Atomic Learning!
- Educational apps for iTouch and iPhone
- A computer that reads hand signals
- OK, not really assistive technology, but may be helpful...
- A cheap, light, and well-received notebook computer?
- Driving may become more like a video game for those with vision challenges
- New twist on highlighter tape
- Use this website to build reading and life skills
- Microsoft Encoder
- The growing use of social media
- Handy flexible tripod helps everyone take pictures and video
- A great tool for capturing video on the fly
- Accessibility Features of Digital Media Players
- Unique Learning System and News-2-You
- Have a little fun with the iPod
- Legal foundations of assistive technology
- A new tool for creating accessible instructional materials
- The upcoming VSTE conference is looking for proposals!!
- Atomic Learning has AT tutorials now!
- The upcoming NCTI Innovators Conference
- Looking for a place to build courses?
- A new resource on education technology...
- AT online community open to all
- Google trying out new search engine for people with visual impairments
- No tech/ Low tech strategies still have an important place in AT
- Interested in a portable electronic book reader?
- Download Free Boardmaker and Powerpoint Books
- Instructional Technology Lessons
- Conference on AT and reading offers new insights for participants in Virginia
- Video profiles the positive impact of technology on the lives of people with disabilities
- Car purchasing guide from GM for people with disabilities
- Assistive Technology Funding Manual
- Another Interactive Web 2.0 tool
- International Society for AAC (ISAAC)
- MAGic screen magnification free promotional release until September 2008
- Kurzweil posts success stories for the knfb reader
- Free online conversion for text to speech
- Advanced digital video projects
- ISAAC 2008 Biennial Conference
- Microsoft Lead Software Development Engineer Talks About His AT Solutions for Low Vision
- Steer a wheelchair or operate a computer using only the tip of the tongue
- New Guidelines on UDL
- A Great Source for Books for Emergent Readers of All Ages
- PODD training opportunity
- A New UDL Strategy Tool to Work in Google
- The Power of Social Media
- "UDL Editions": An example of UDL
- UDL Curriculum Checker from CAST
- Technology Tuesdays are back!!
- Technology Research Articles
- Role of Psychology in Assistive Technology
- Farfalla accessibility platform will integrate a range of AT
- HS student uses AT to pursue musical dreams
- Short training videos from Ablenet
- Matching Technology to Learning Supports
- Voice, movement, and independence for students with physical disabilities
- Assistive technology for baking...
- Assistive technology helps student with a visual impairment pursue his passions
- Visit this Wiki on Assistive Technology Research
- Funding AT
- Video case studies of AT use
- Great blog-COMD News: Events and Research in Speech, Language, and Hearing Disorders
- Check out the Blind Access Journal blog
- What's new in AT
- AT training opportunity
- Phone that helps a range of readers is unveiled
- VPOD from Premier
- Web browser for children with autism spectrum disorders
- Great website for AT Teams
- Slater On-line School--no tuition!
- Accessible Instructional Materials in Virginia
- New Wiki on AT
- Universal design in the workplace
- Free Technology Toolkit-Worth Mentioning Again
- PAL –Picture Assisted Literacy Assessment
- Great resources from the Center for Technology on Innovation
- Spend some time on our UDL wiki!
- A New Online Resource Celebrating Differing Minds and Approaches
- CAST announces new resources on universal design for learning
- Mini Laptops Hit the Market
- Low Vision math solutions for success
- Premier Assistive Technology now available for Mac
- Example of "getting the word out" about AT
- Public libraries can include assistive technology
- Math Type
- PixWriter 3.WOW!
- Article: Can Assistive Technology Save Computing
- It's voting time again...in some places
- Video: "How a non-verbal student can participate during a verbal class activity"
- Universal Design for Math Learning
- Recreation, anyone?
- How to download Read Please
- Add to your knowledge about AT (or challenge someone else's!)
- OSU conference focuses college students on disability support
- Start Jotting Today It's Fun and Useful
- Toys for fun
- Assistive Technology in the news
- Yet another cool thing that helps all of our students...
- A few recent presentations on UDL by CAST
- Assistive Technology Resources
- AT and Transition Resource
- A great resource for converting text to speech
- A resource for reading
- Examples of Talking Books
- Cutting-edge AT development
- Assistive technology reports on aging populations
- Mobile Flash Cards
- Adaptable Toys for Kids
- The History of Assistive Technology
- Several interesting webinars on digital text...
- Keeping those great videos on your computer
- Canadian school offers class for students to learn to apply assistive software solutions
- Exploring Math Concepts Through Literature
- Accommodating homes while keeping costs down
- Universal Design Furniture Solutions
- Covering a live event in your blog!
- What is social networking and why is it important?
- A new tool for web accessibility
- The UDL Curriculum Self-Check
- Customize your Post-It Notes
- New writing support program
- The National Consortium on UDL
- Reading the text online
- More educational uses for your iPod
- Make use of Excel spreadsheet capabilities
- Job Accommodations Network (JAN)
- Epoc Headset from Emotive Systems may prove to be valuable assistive tech
- An exciting use of Read:Outloud
- Signing avatars
- Video on entering text into PowerPoint easily
- Playing YouTube Videos on the iPod
- Web resource for AT teams
- Hot off the Press! Bookshare.org chooses Read:OutLoud as text reader
- Kurzweil goes to a USB format
- An upcoming web event...
- VSTE Conference 2008 Websites
- Any video converter software
- Looking for some traffic and regulatory sign images?
- Software assessment of early numeracy
- Audio guides as walking guides
- The Power of that iPod
- FREEdom of speech
- Hot Office 2007 Tip: Keyboard Shortcuts
- wiki crazy?
- Read the way you want
- Linking Technology to Learning - The Discovery Education Team
- The Importance of Building Mental Models to Enhance Learning
- Visual scaffold for "I have, who has"
- iPod me through history!
- Using a Laptop with Small Children??
- Free music for kids
- Interested in Universal Design for Learning and Web 2.0?
- Want to hear a cartoon character talk about UDL?
- Will you be at VSTE in Roanoke this year? If so...
- Tech for social situations
- A cool blog to review
- What's the Latest Buzz on Web 2.0 Technologies and Learning on College Campuses
- Emerging Technologies - Making Meaning out of Data through Data Visualization
- Speaking to Your Computer
- What Would a Platform for Digital Expression Look Like?
- Curriculums converge to create a great tool
- The Impact of Web 2.0 Technologies on Today's Learner
- Creating an Accessible PDF Document from Word 2007
- Upcoming Webinars on Technology and AT
- Got a text-to-speech reader but no example of a classroom blog?
- Another Switch Adapted Digital Camera
- Website accessibility checkers
- Solar-powered wheelchair
- Imagine the possibilities of using an audiovisual recording device with students!
- Assistive Technology Videos
- Driving Assistance
- Make your voice podcasts a little more animated
- A New Web Accessibility Add-On for Firefox
- A Social Networking Guru
- Using SketchUp in the Classroom: Making instruction hands-on and visual!
- Taking Your Screen Reader on a Portable Drive
- What are the characteristics of classrooms in which we use our AT?
- Wiz through lesson planning with Wiz by AbleNet
- Looking for right AT
- AT really is everywhere!
- A Review of the Highlights from the 2007 National Center on Technology Innovation Conference
- New AT Tool for People with Physical Disabilities
- New AT use for Neurofeedback
- Finding the Right Toy
- Virginia Recreational Resources for People with Disabilities
- NCTI Awards New Innovations in AT Technologies
- Kindle: Amazon’s New Wireless Reading Device
- Wondering what interactive whiteboards look like in action?
- Hear Sara Sing
- Create electronic books—just follow the tutorial
- Need a little AAC lift?
- Got $80 and need to be reminded a lot?
- Does graph paper help your students to organize?
- Adapt My World
- Free Assistive Technology Journal
- "Magnetic" math online game
- Day Planner intended to help students organize their day and follow a schedule
- Virginia’s 2-1-1 network of providers
- A Few Alternative Approaches to Sending Email
- Interested in setting up a Wiki
- Understanding the "Flatness of the World"
- New Thoughts on PowerPoint Presentations
- Walgreens creates employment opportunities
- How Do I keep Track of All that Information?
- Upcoming Free Webinars in 2008
- The Big Web 2.0
- Writing Issues and Including Assistive Technology Solutions in the IEP
- Website for gamers with significant disabilities
- Free computer-based magnifier!
- NASA's MathTrax transforms graphs and equations in real-time into words
- Free parent guide to assistive technology
- More free switch accessible software
- Make your own tri-fold choice board
- It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness...
- Recent article on Using assistive technology to teach emotion recognition to students with Asperger Syndrome
- Free and open source AT resources
- More free switch accessible software games
- How can we get struggling writers to write...and like it?
- A National Summit on UDL
- What's the "electronic curbcut effect"?
- Free Switch Games to Try
- What do you have to say?
- Google and accessibility
- A New Tool for Searching Assistive Technologies Online...
- Popular Web Companies Support the Importance of Captioning
- Free Online Software---Big Calculator
- Save those 2007 calendars!
- Statewide AT Teams Gather at TechKnowledgy 2007
- Dan Herlihy Wows Them All With The Tricks Behind the AT
- TechKnowledgy 2007 Happens!
- Dan Herlihy on assessment at TechKnowledgy
- Did you vote? Was everyone else able to?
- A Free Webinar on AT and Emerging Technologies
- Keynote speaker at TechKnowledgy today
- The Possibilities of Distance Technologies...
- The Importance of an Occupational Therapist and AT
- A new social networking community for AT
- Promethean’s solutions as assistive technology
- Want to tour Richmond using a wheelchair?
- AT Recycling Centers in VA
- JAVA applications become more accessible
- Finding Alternative Sources of Funding for Assistive Technology
- Finding "Access" in Microsoft Software
- Telecommuting: How to afford the equipment needed at home
- Free Webinar on Digital Books
- Upcoming Webinars from EASI
- October is Disability Awareness Month
- AT Equipment Exchange
- Wondering what DBVI can do for students?
- New online video from RFB&D
- Tactual books: How do you do it?
- Assistive Technology Loan Fund Authority
- Recycle technology? What a concept!
- Using Visual Search Mode for Assistive Technology on VCU T/TAC Online Library
- National Endowment for the Arts addresses accessibility issues
- A "Speaking" Pocket PC
- A Cool View through the IPOD
- AAC and All that Jazz
- A View of Second Life through ISTE
- 3rd Annual World Usability Day
- Upcoming Technology Webinars
- Click & Go: Cheap and Easy Software for Teaching
- International AAC Awareness Month
- Resource for less expensive AT
- Software adds ASL signing to text as you type
- Try the first symbol-supported web browser
- AT Blogs
- More ideas for using PVC pipe!
- AT Abandonment
- Footage from the 2006 Big Ten IT Accessibility Conference
- A new tool for creating audio files from tex
- AT Podcasts from ConnSENSE
- Using remnants to create meaningful books!
- TechKnowledgy 2007 Conference - Registration is Open!
- AlphaSmart Videos
- No-tech/Light-tech treasures: Document holders
- Cool Tools from Crayola
- World of Possibilites...wouldn't that be nice to live there?
- TECHNOLOGY TUESDAYS ARE BACK!
- How the Bridge School funds its AT and AAC devices
- The New Accessibility Features of Windows VISTA
- Considering GOOGLE....
- Social Networking Tools
- The Growing Use of Technology (among students) in K-12 Environments
- A Cool File Conversion Tool
- An online tool to facilitate collaboration
- Ten Terrific Reasons to use iTunes!
- Assess your knowledge of assistive technology
- The Wiz---and no it's not the Broadway show!
- Self-management software for students and teachers
- New Resources from Inspiration
- Free Webinars
- New AT for people with visual impairments
- SLPs! Share your thoughts and ideas
- Adaptive Devices for Digital Cameras
- Technology Innovators Conference
- Great Resources for Symbol Users
- Tips for Success with Books on Tape in the Classroom
- Ablenet Partners with Weekly Reader
- Learning Through Listening website from RFB&D
- A Useful Tool for Writing Citations
- AT Sessions Needed for Upcoming Conferences
- New AT Webinars
- A Captioning Device
- Mac user? Here's a nice blog--and the "top 10 myths about the Mac and its accessibility to the blind"
- What technologies will help my students with math and reading?
- Fun partner/station games for everyone in math class
- Create a Universally Designed lesson!
- Using iPod's for Reading Fluency
- More Accessible books! Happy reading!
- Visited the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives lately?
- Mark your Calendar! TechKnowledgy 2007 Conference
- Are you looking for summer professional development?
- Switch Accessible iPod
- Adaptive photography
- The beginnings of universal design
- Great tools for assistive technology on a budget
- The Universal Design Initiative from AHEAD
- Free Text Readers
- Accessible Mini-Vans
- The switchPod for IPOD users
- A new tool for determining digital text readability
- Accessibility Tools in Microsoft Products
- Keyboard shorcuts are available in the 2007 MS Office program
- The Accessibility of the new Apple IPhone
- World of Possibilities Expo coming to Richmond!
- Woodworking Tips for People with Disabilities
- Let's hear it for Walgreens!!
- Text-to-speech in MS Excel
- Websites to help with AT consideration
- Tablets and Slates are everywhere!
- Free mp3 of AT leaders discussing important issues
- More accessibility discussion at Microsoft
- Free Switch Games
- Have you seen the Thumb Thing?
- Blogger's review of new pen
- Commentary on Altruism and Assistive Technology
- Open-source assistive technology tools...
- Another great blog site
- Adapted books and other literacy materials
- Beginning a discussion about universal design for learning
- A new video podcast on AT
- A few interesting blogs on AT
- Join the qiat listserve
- Early Literacy Skill Builder (ELSB)
- Another free speech aloud tool...
- Top 5 Reasons to Use the PageUp
- Create engaging digital books that build reading skills for students
- Try this out---alternative text entry system
- Third world countries are entering the technology craze!
- An inexpensive text reader and mp3 conversion tool..
- Thinking about podcasting?
- A blog discussion on technology, design, and literacy supports
- The Vocational Assessment Community Blog
- Some of the research on technology tools
- Turn your iPod or mp3 player into a tool for helping your students with autism
- An Inspiring Story to Teach Student Advocacy
- Assistive Technology information helps AT teams
- Top 10 reasons to incorporate reading frames into your teaching
- Hear regularly about research, development, education, advocacy and provision of assistive technology
- Turn your iPod or mp3 player into a powerful educational tool
- Free electronic books!
- Helping students with cognitive disabilities to have meaningful access to online class material
- Turn down the volume!
- More web resources for planning recreation supports
- Good website for anyone new to assistive technology
- IMspeak Adds Speech to Instant Messages
- Article in Closing the Gap on the Stages assessment materials
- A New and FREE Voice Recognition Software
- Turn your iPod or mp3 Player into a Powerful Educational Tool
- Free Photos from Learning Magic, Inc.
- Free Automatic Braille Conversion
- CAST Workshop on UDL
- Podcasting Grant is available!
- Free Screen Readers for Blind Users
- Webinar on Universal Design for Learning
- Giggles Funtime for Babies
- Deal from Enabling devices
- Language translation
- Audio Conferences offered through the AHEAD organization
- Thinking about universal access to computer gaming
- Color Accessibility for People with Visual Impairments
- Universal Design for e-Learning
- Windows Vista and Assistive Technology
- Catch the last few days of the FCTD discussion on AAC and vocabulary building!
- Create meaningful materials using your computer!
- AT for access regular education
- Ashley’s Mom has great ideas!
- California's "ask an AT specialist" website
- Create sturdy visuals easily
- Fun and Cool Tech Links
- Spark your thoughts using words and graphics!
- AT Partnership offers hope for those with MS
- Assistive Technology for Literacy--for Adults with LD
- Remember to visit the VCU T/TAC Assistive Technology Lab!
- Free software for people with deafblindness or learning disabilities
- Who can resist the "Treasure Chest of Free Stuff"?
- Online guide to the latest computer-related products for children and adults with special needs
- Wondering how you'll fill your summer (with AT info)?
- AT resources for Apple users (and everyone else!)
- An important web log on assistive technology in higher education
- Amazon.com commits to being an accessible web site
- A New and Comprehensive Website
- The CAST UDL Lesson Builder
- Free Webinars
- New Key to Access VPOD
- Assistive Technology in Bill's World
- Time management strategy--by experts from ADD.org
- American Foundation for the Blind VP applauds Assistive Technology
- The iPod in education: The potential for teaching and learning
- Looking for online math tools for students to access?
- Dyscalculia article with suggestions
- Assistive technology resource info, research, communities of practice, and more!
- AT Competencies for team members
- Family Guide to Assistive Technology
- AT success stories
- Everything's bigger in Texas...what about the AT trainings?
- Resources and tools for students with autism
- What's going on in with AT in the rest of the country?
- premade Boardmaker material
- Tangible Symbols--What do they look like?
- Looking for an online course for Speech and Language Pathologists?
- Switch Accessible Software for Teens
- Online curriculum for learning about AT
- Assistive Technology Viewer from NATRI
- Online discussion of AT and UDL...and a free CD!
- Resource for families
- Resource for speech therapists
- Simple fundraiser: Recycle IT for AT!
- Adaptive Skiing Mardi Gras party!
- New Universal Design for Learning Podcast
- Literacy Practice Games Online
- Basic Math Practice online
- Universal Design for Learning videos and info
- A new AT resource!
- Boosting Inclusion in After School Activities with AT and Supplemental Services
- Using talking text, web resources, graphic organizers, and word processors with all learners
- Assistive Technology at Work
- Finding high-interest electronic text on the Internet
- CHECK strategy improves spell checker use
- Accessibility of Captcha
- Technology Tuesday: Test Me, Score Me
- Free Stuff from Slater Software
- An upcoming broadcast on universal design for learning
- Literacy Support Pictures--Free
- An Accessible Resource from Microsoft
- LD Online Article: Auditory Processing Disorders & Environmental Modification at Home
- A New Book on UDL
- The Web Accessibility Capacity Institute
- What's in Your IPOD?
- Technology Tuesdays: Free Tablet Downloads and Auggie Info
- The D2L Consortium on Accessibility
- A Millennial Speaks Up About Technology
- LD Online Article: Helping Students Who Struggle to Write
- What K-12 Students are Saying about Technology and Learning
- Rocketbooks are a rocking way to teach students literary analysis
- Dragon Naturally Speaking has come of Age!
- Delicious!
- Speech Access for Powerpoint
- Enhance your students' math skills with The Graph Club
- Ed TECH conference is coming in February
- Thinking Reader is a universally designed reading program
- Environmental accessibility solutions
- Graphic Organizers and Implications for Universal Design for Learning
- Visual reminder of classroom procedures
- Seasonal Cooking with Boardmaker/Picture Recipes
- Strategies for teaching math to students with visual impairments
- Adapted Gardening Ideas for Individuals with Disabilities
- All About Universal Design
- An Assistive Technology Blog within a Blog
- New Accessibility Features in Windows Operating System
- Accessible Technology for All
- Developing Accessible Web Pages with Firefox
- Vibrating Digital Timer is best I have ever seen
- Porta Book helps organize and display reading and writing materials
- Cool new Page-Up designs
- New Year's Resolution: Organizing writing (and other) instruments
- New Year's Resolutions: Organize that desk!
- Another thing about Time Timers...
- Time Timer...Watches!
- Strategies for Effective Implementation of AT
- Another resource for matching AT tools to students
- Co-Teaching Resources
- LD Resources.com has New Look
- AHEAD's Position Statement on E-Text
- Technology Tuesdays beginning in 2007
- ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY TOOLS, TIPS AND TRICKS
- Reference sheets on improving computer access
- Project Participate offers tech tips
- ATWiki!!!!!
- Comparison Chart of AAC devices for academic settings
- "Using Talking Photos as Assistive Technology Tools"
- Working on organizing your AT inventory?
- Info on equal access to standardized testing
- How we at the AT TechNet blog might respond to the child who knows it all by age 3...
- VSTE Conference is coming up...
- UConn's "Assistive Technology Mindset"
- Universal design and appeal at Clemyjontri playground in McLean, VA
- Interesting way to list AT resources on a division website
- Using Technology to Raise Achievement for Struggling Students
- Switch activities
- Assistive Technology Guide
- Local Assistive Technology Teams are Presenting at the Virginia Department of Education's Educational Technology Leadership Conference
- Example of a regional AT center and team
- No website, but there's an AT team flyer
- AT team website has link to their inventory
- One AT team's website
- ATSTAR online training for AT assessment
- About joining the Technology and Media Division of CEC
- Quality Indicators for Assistive Technology Services (QIAT)
- Creating Accessible Media Files
- Build up your AT reference shelf
- Creating Accessible Web Sites
- What is a Podcast and how can I create one?
- Creating Accessible PowerPoint Files for the Web
- With a Little AT Help From My Friends
- Math supports for diverse learners
- The Versatility of a Smartboard
- Continuum of AT devices
- TechKnowledgy 2006 Happens!
- UDL Lesson Plan Helper
- LD Resources
- Boardmaker 6.0 and Boardmaker Plus
- Updated free Demo CD
- Widget Software shown at CTG
- Closing the Gap Conference
- Intro to screen readers
- Interactive Math Website
- A Few Google Tools for Educators
- Alphabet soup for AT
- New Symbol Idea??
- Writing AT in the IEP
- Attainment's Word Rule Set is great hands-on tool
- Monthly ideas from Boardmaker
- Get started with Boardmaker!
- Need Inspiration?
- Got iPods on the mind...for read-aloud tests and more
- Great multi-tasker -- check it out from our AT lab!
- Behavior management visual/verbal cues with soft toys
- Quick fixes for slow writers
- Dry erase markerboards for math
- Sometimes you just want to leave it up to them...
- A resource for accessible books
- AT Blog Presentation at Upcoming Conference
- Publishing Accessible Online Powerpoints