Posted by 14 on the 29th April, 2015
Astonishingly, tomorrow is officially my last day as a member of the CALL Scotland team, as retirement whisks me away to a new stage of life. How can 30 + years have passed so quickly? Well, I suppose - because every day is different and I've been enjoying it all ...
Posted by 14 on the 29th April, 2015
We've just had a sneak preview of the new Clicker Communication App for iPad that will be available soon, designed primarily for children and young people. It is perhaps not revolutionarily innovative in AAC terms, but it nicely integrates all the usual features of a basic AAC system w...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 28th April, 2015
Best wishes to all learners, parents/carers, teachers, assistants and SQA staff for the 2015 SQA exams which start today! The timetables starts with Drama this morning, Economics this afternoon, and runs until Friday June 5, finishing with High Early Education and Childcare. According to t...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 17th April, 2015
Speech recognition has been around for many years, and many people have tried it without much success. It could be made to work, but often involved a lot of training, time and effort. Today though, computers are much more powerful, speech recognition software is much more accurate and reliable, and ...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 30th March, 2015
Development Officer - Assistive Technology & Additional Support Needs As a result of recent and upcoming staff changes, we are looking for a person to come and join the CALL team. This post is full-time and fixed-term until 31st March 2017 - although we hope and expect that funding will ...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 30th March, 2015
Thanks to Isabell Irvine from Inverclyde for contributing Large Print books in both Word and PDF. The Word files are provided in case staff need to edit them to change the font or font size for example. George's Marvellous Medicine - LP14 Word George's Marvellous Medic...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 27th March, 2015
PDFescape is a new browser-based PDF editor with the facility to insert form fields (answer boxes). The free service lets you upload a PDF, do simple editing, add form fields, and then download back to your computer. The PDF can then be accessed by learners on computer using for example Ad...
Posted by Joanna Courtney on the 24th March, 2015
Now that Springtime seems to be upon us at last, you'll be looking for some suitably 'fresh and lively' reading material for your Young Readers! Just to remind you that CALL's PowerPoint bookshelf is available for download with links to lots of ready m...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 19th March, 2015
We are excited to announce that Bright Red Publishing are the latest Scottish textbook publisher to agree to provide digital copies of their books for the Books for All Database. Bright Red publish Study and Revision Guides for Intermediate, National 5 and Highers and also SQA Past Papers. Over the ...
Posted by 14 on the 16th March, 2015
Police Scotland are offering a new Emergency SMS service which could be very valuable for people with speech, language or communication impairment, or deafness (who cannot easily use a voice based phone service). If someone can access a mobile phone reliably, they can send an ...
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