December 2003 / January 2004
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Editorial Feature
DISKoveries
By
Joan Tanenhaus
All Things Matt
By
Matthew Roberts and Matthew Wangeman
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Matt Wangeman and
Matt Roberts
CoumnistsIndividuals with cerebral palsy: The sometimes unvocalized terrorist threat
Welcome to the latest installment of All Things Matt. For this installment, the PC Matt had planned on continuing his discussion of Windows Internet browsers but a funny (but not the “hah-hah” kind of funny) thing happened to him on the way home from a conference. Stay tuned to learn more of that weird experience.
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A fresh look at Braille
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Jim Halliday
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Braille has been a center of controversy for many years. Braille advocates say that it is fundamental to literacy. Speech advocates say that Braille is not necessary because speech can provide the same information faster and cheaper.
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Mounting 101
By
Edward Hitchcock
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Mounting of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices is an important consideration for their users. Mounting can be a benefit for a number of reasons. In this article, I will address these benefits and address considerations for basic mounting systems for manual and power wheelchairs.
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Pre-K 2003: Inclusive, not assistive, technology
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Rick Metheny
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“May we live in interesting times.” On June 7, 1996, during a time of tumultuous social upheaval, Robert F. Kennedy exhorted a gathering in Cape Town, South Africa with those words. Now, in the fields of assistive technology and special education, we find ourselves once again living in very interesting times.
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Effectiveness of word cueing for children with physical and learning disabilities
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Janice Archer, Jennifer Mays, Gretchen Skidmore and Cynthia Tam
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Tom, an 11-year-old boy, wanted to write about baseball when he came for his initial writing aids assessment, but it took him five minutes to type the sentence “The blue lost agast boltmor olwezs” when he wanted to write “The Blue Jays lost against the Baltimore Orioles.” Tom has learning challenges and a physical diagnosis that affects his motor skills. WordQ, a word-cueing software program was introduced to Tom at the assessment.
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Product Feature
Easy IntelliMation tricks and tips
By
Ann Brundige
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Note: These are tips from a workshop using IntelliPics Studio v. 1.0.7. An upgrade to IntelliPics Studio v.
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Product Spotlight
Announcing Aladdin Sunshine: Telesensory delivers auto focus in one-piece color CCTV
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Telesensory is pleased to announce the release of a new Aladdin video magnifier. The Aladdin Sunshine joins Telesensory’s family of low vision products, offering full-color video magnification with auto focus in an integrated unit.
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My Own BookShelf enables students to select and read their own books
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SoftTouch, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of My Own BookShelf. This book-authoring program enables educators to easily create multi-media books on the computer and store them on bookshelves.
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Announcing the release of CAST eReader 3.0 for Windows
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CAST announces the release of eReader 3.0 for the Windows platform. CAST eReader is a text-to-speech software tool designed to support those who have difficulty reading. The software now supports DAISY 2.02 digital talking books, which use human voice on MP3 files.This new release of eReader makes it the first tool to use both synthetic speech and natural voice to navigate a wide range of digital educational content and provide critically needed reading supports for young readers with disabilities as they begin to read independently.
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DynaVox Systems introduces the next generation of AAC
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DynaVox Systems LLC announces two new Augmentative and Alternative Communications (AAC) products, enabling those with significant speech disabilities to communicate with greater speed and ease.
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Greeting cards speak for special children with communication challenges
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For thousands of children with autism and other developmental disabilities, picture symbols fill an essential role in helping them to communicate simple requests or to say hello to a friend. A new line of charity greetings cards from Giving Greetings features colorful picture symbols to illustrate meaningful wishes and supports two organizations that work with children with special needs.
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Intellitools announces launch of Intellitools Classroom Suite
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Exciting new product integrates IntelliTools’ three popular and award-winning preK-8 classroom tools into a seamless, cross-platform, network-ready suite.
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MacCaption – The world’s only complete captioning system on a CD
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While others were relaxing at the beach this summer, the CPC programming staff pulled multiple all-nighters to take their industry leading Mac based captioning software to the next level.
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MacSpeech, Inc. announces ScriptPak for Microsoft Word X, which adds over 150 spoken commands to the company’s flagship product iListen
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The Microsoft Word X ScriptPak includes commands that allow the user to control most of Word’s functions with voice commands. Users will especially appreciate time-saving commands that show and hide Word’s many toolbars and palettes, as well as commands that allow navigation and control of formatting options.
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MacSpeech releases Panther update for iListen
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Macintosh speech recognition authority MacSpeech, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of iListen 1.6.3, the latest incarnation of the company’s flagship speech recognition product for Mac OS X.
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New Merlin Color Select enables individuals who are legally blind to read again
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Enhanced Vision, the leading developer of products for people with low vision announces an addition to its popular line of desktop video magnifiers, the new Merlin Color Select. This product offers people with specific vision conditions 28 color combinations, more than any other product in the market.
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Freedom Scientific announces new PAC Mate with integrated Braille
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Freedom Scientific announces two major additions to its PAC Mate family of accessible Pocket PC devices for individuals who are blind. Orders are now being taken for the new PAC Mate BX400 and PAC Mate QX400. These units use Microsoft’s Pocket PC 2003 software and JAWS for Windows.
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PocketMac 3.0 adds Bluetooth, e-mail synching, Third party software installation and much more
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Information Appliance Associates announces the new release of PocketMac, the original Mac-to-Pocket-PC sync solution.
“We’ve really pulled out the stops on this release,” said Terence Goggin, CTO of Information Appliance Associates. “We’ve added Bluetooth support – now users can sync over Bluetooth, USB, and Airport. We also now have the ability to sync e-mail.
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WordMaker teaches students how sounds and letters make words
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Educators’ need for a systematic sequential phonics approach to supplement and extend word study instruction has been met in an exciting new way with WordMaker, announces Don Johnston Incorporated. WordMaker was developed in collaboration with Dr. Patricia Cunningham, author of the Four Blocks Literacy Model, and a dozen additional books on literacy for struggling students.
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