August / September 2007
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Editorial Feature
Assessing reading, listening, and observational comprehension in students with physical disabilities
By
Ann Brundige
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Note: This is the first of three articles on comprehension assessment in three different multimedia systems, IntelliTools Classroom Suite, two paired SoftTouch,Inc. applications (My Own Bookshelf and Test Me Score Me), and Clicker 5.
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The "write" Rx for speech recognition in the writing process
By
Nancy Icke, Rachel Perella and Cheryl Temple
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Fairfax County Public Schools has successfully integrated the use of speech recognition for students with special needs for the past twelve years. As hardware has become more powerful, the software has become more accurate. While the program has become easier to train, the writing process by dictation remains a necessary skill to be taught.
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The history of Closing The Gap
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Dolores Hagen
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“Ma and Pa Hagen.” That's what they used to call us. We have seven children and are grandparents, too, so that had something to do with it. We were a couple of rural Minnesota parents who lived on a farm and happened to have a problem figuring out how to help one of those seven kids succeed in school.
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Got mail?! Using e-mail to support and promote literacy skills
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Bridget Gilormini
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“Got Mail?!” are magic words for many people. Checking e-mail is a common task that people everywhere in the world do, often multiple times a day. “Got mail” are words that cross age, gender and racial boundaries.
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AT In Depth
Using technology for social interaction skills instruction for children and adolescents with Asperger's Syndrome
By
Susan Stokes
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It is well known that Asperger's Syndrome is characterized by a qualitative impairment in social interactions (DSM IV-TR: APA 2000). However, the social competence of children and adolescents with Asperger's Syndrome is often misunderstood due to their average to above average intelligence, and intact or even precocious development of “surface” language skills (i.e.,vocabulary skills, grammatical skills, speech sound skills, sentence length andstructure). Thus, the seemingly advanced speaking style and cognitive functioning of children and adolescents with Asperger's Syndrome can often mask significant skill deficits in the area of social interactions (Myles, 2001).
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Product Spotlight
Extreme gaming on the Mac: new short video shows the impossible
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AssistiveWare has announced the release of "One Thumb to Rule Them All," a new HD video and video podcast, featuring Michael Phillips, gamer and freelance technology writer. Mike was born with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and can only move his thumb.
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Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D) and HumanWare support new portable players for AudioPlus books
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Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D), America's educational library of recorded textbooks for people unable to read print due to a visual or perceptual disability, and HumanWare, a leader in assistive technology for vision, are pleased to announce that the HumanWare family of BrailleNote mPower, PK and Maestro accessible PDA's will have the ability to play AudioPlus recorded books from RFB&D as of early June, 2007.
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X-shaped ball scores high for those with special needs
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Ttalf Corporation founder, Patricia Littwin and inventor of the Yackle Ball and Yackle Ball Jr., announces that Lekotek has recently rated her products at the top for those with special needs! Therapists, doctors and parents have been raving for months that the new product line is a "God Send" for those that normally didn't have the motor skills or lack the ability to be involved with active play.
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PRC introduces ECO-14, a state-of-the-art communication aid featuring Windows XP compatibility
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Next-Generation device from AAC technology leader delivers superior communication power plus optional computer capabilities.
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Serotek makes Web 2.0 accessible to the blind
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Serotek Corporation, a leading provider of Internet and digital information accessibility software and services, announces the public beta release of a Web application called SA To Go (System Access To Go), the first product to make Web 2.0 accessibleto the blind and the visually impaired.
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Freedom Scientific announces low vision software and hardware solutions
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Freedom Scientific has introduced its latest suite of innovative low vision solutions, featuring the ONYX Camera,an easy-to-use portable video magnification camera that provides three distinct viewing options: distance views, document views, and self views.
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Freedom Scientific announces the PAC Mate Omni, the ultimate mobile computing solution for individuals who are blind
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Freedom Scientific has announced the next generation of the PAC Mate accessible Pocket PC, the PAC Mate Omni. The PAC Mate series incorporates JAWS, the world’s most popular screen reading software, and Microsoft Windows Mobile to create the world’s first accessible Pocket PC device for the blind. The new PAC Mate Omni is a combination of enhanced hardware with expanded functionality and powerful new software that features the latest advances from Freedom Scientific and Microsoft.
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HumanWare launches Victor Reader Stream, a powerful, palm-size Daisy - MP3 player for playing books and music
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HumanWare is proud to introduce its most compact, most powerful DAISY player to date, the Victor Reader Stream. Blind and low vision people can comfortably hold this new player in the palm of their hand (4.6 x 2.6 x 0.9) and have the flexibility to quickly and accurately access content from digital audio books.Developed with the National Federation of the Blind (NFB), the Victor Reader Stream uses the latest technology from HumanWare to be able to read digital talking books from the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS). Not only will you be able to play and navigate the NLS books on cartridges, but you will also have access to NLS download books.
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Text4Deaf launches text messaging site for the deaf community
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Text4Deaf.Com, a new communications-based Web site for the deaf community and the people with whom they interact, has announced their Web site has officially launched. Powered by MobileSphere's award-winning Joopz Web texting technology, Text4Deaf enables real-time text messaging with a Web interface to cell phones, regardless of the carrier.
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Workshop in a Box: AT training materials
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LAB Resources has announced their new line of training materials. The Workshop in a Box series is designed to provide a school district with all the tools needed to conduct their own workshop to train their staff on any one of eight popular assistive technology software programs. With Workshop in a Box, your workshop will be easy to set up and run and also very economical.
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