Posted by 14 on the 17th November, 2011
Jane Farrall in Melbourne Australia has just published on her blog a really useful step by step instructions for how to get a free book from the Tarheel Reader site into an iPad. Good way to make appropriate materials available without having to make them yourself. (You could also run the book on...
Posted by 14 on the 14th November, 2011
I have been weaning myself - slowly - off BoardMaker 6 and on to BoardMaker Studio. I love many of the clever new 'gadgets' for interactive use, though it's taking me a while to get to grips with some of the more complicated ones. I'll post a more comprehensive evaluation soon. BUT ...
Posted by 4 on the 4th November, 2011
There are still a few places available for any parent interested in coming along to Saturday's Parent Information Day on 12th November 2011. You can find out about and try many of the specialised technologies available to support children and young people with additional support needs. Following...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 13th October, 2011
Following on from the previous post re PDFaloud not offering you Stuart, Robert here in CALL has written a script which finds all the PDFaloud safe voice lists on your Windows computer and adds Stuart to them. Here's what to do: Install Stuart first. Save the file to your comput...
Posted by 14 on the 3rd October, 2011
This fun little cartoon video explains much of what is important about assistive technology for disabled users, in a clear and pretty cool way.Update: I should clarify. The CALL Scotland team did not make this video, though I would be very proud if we had. We are just passing it on for wider...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 28th September, 2011
The new Scottish male computer voice is now available for download from CALL's web site. 'Stuart' works with most text-to-speech programs including for example ClaroRead, Co:Writer, PDFaloud, Penfriend, Read and Write Gold and WordTalk. However, if you install Stuart on your computer, you won't ...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 23rd September, 2011
A common question we get from staff, parents and students is "Can I use speech recognition software to dictate my answers into the computer in an examination?" and so SQA funded us to spend some time trying to answer this. We've written a report with the results of the tests we've carried out on...
Posted by 14 on the 21st September, 2011
Your communication: Your rights Where? Edinburgh: The Faith Centre, Gilmerton (directions will be supplied, on booking) When? Monday 7th November, 10.30 am - 3 pm (lunch provided) Who? Adults (16+)in Scotland that use AAC; Claire Edwards and Shirley Young, Inclusive Communicat...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 19th September, 2011
TextHelp, publishers of Read and Write Gold and PDFaloud, have decided that they will no longer sell PDFaloud as a standalone program. Since 2008, Scottish schools have been able to buy a site licence for PDFaloud for £295 from Learning and Teaching Scotland, under a special licencing deal....
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 12th September, 2011
Earlier this year Stuart and I were videoed finding, using and making books in accessible formats, and the videos are now available on the Education Scotland web site. They provide a quick and reasonably (we think!) straightforward introduction to Books for All, and you can download the videos and...
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