App Track

Thursday and Friday, October 18-19, 2012

The App Track will feature four, 15-minute, moderated presentations per one-hour time block (listed, below, in the order of their scheduled delivery within the block). Each will be a quick overview and/or demonstration of an app.

Thursday, October 18, 2012

8:00 am - 9:00 am

• Using StoryMaker to Create Social Stories on the iPad;
  Rob Tedesco - HandHold Adaptive
• Socially Speaking App for iPad: Social Skills Assessment and Treatment Protocol for Young Children with Autism and Special Needs;
  Penina Pearl Rybak - Socially Speaking LLC
• The Planner Guide: An Organizational and Reference System for People with Social and Cognitive Challenges;
  Bob Steinkamp - The Planner Guide LLC.
• QuestionIt: The Answer to Wh-Questions;
  Susan Berkowitz - Language Learning Apps, LLC

9:30 am - 10:30 am

• AAC Evaluation Genie;
  Celeste Helling - Hump Software
• Custom Boards for iPad: AAC, Schedules and Activities on Your iPad;
  Barbara Fernandes - Smarty Ears
• Making Choices: There is an App for That!;
  Mo Buti
• WordPower for the TouchChat Application;
  Nancy Inman - Saltillo Corporation

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

• Voice Thread: A Model UDL App;
  Lesley McGilligan - Special School District of St. Louis County
• Apps for Signing Math and Science;
  Judy Vesel - TERC, Inc.
• Giving Voice Back to People That Have Lost the Ability to Speak;
  Robert Palmquist - Auditory Sciences, LLC.

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

• One Switch, Two Switch, Red Switch, Blue Switch;
  Mark Larson - Marblesoft, LLC
• Itching for Switching;
  Mark Larson - Marblesoft, LLC
• Switch Accessible Early Literacy Activities;
  King-DeBaun, Pati - Creative Communicating
• Predictable: Switch Accessible iPad App for Voice Output Communication;
  Rebecca Bright - Therapy Box

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

• The Book is Just the Beginning: Filling a Gap;
  Julie Rick - AIMEE Solutions, Inc.
• Kurzweil 3000-firefly iPad App;
  David Bradburn - Cambium Learning Technologies
• Making Google Docs Documents Accessible with Read&Write for Google Docs;
  Martin McKay - Texthelp Inc.
• On the Go with News-2-You;
  Darlene Brodbeck - N2Y, Inc

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

• Teaching Tense with Animations;
  Kyle Tomson - Mobile Education Store
• Every Teacher Needs a Pal;
  Donna Montgomery and Camie West - University of Nebraska at Kearney
• MyTalk User Mode, Mobile Author, Remote Web Board Building;
  Bick Pratt - MyTalk LLC
• Tecla Access: Switch Access to Smartphones and Tablets;
  Mauricio Meza - Komodo OpenLab Inc.

Friday, October 19, 2012

8:00 am - 9:00 am

• Switch Accessible Puzzles;
  Elliot Pludwinski - Judy Lynn Software, Inc.
• Ready to Print iPad App;
  Dianne Reid - Essare LLC
• AAC Language Lab: Core Words;
  Jane Odom - Prentke Romich Comapany (PRC)
• AAC Language Lab: Directing Activities;
  Jane Odom - Prentke Romich Comapany (PRC)