Posted by 14 on the 22nd December, 2009
WOW - I have received two emails this week that make me feel a bit old but massively proud! Both were from young women in their early twenties who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) - at opposite ends of Scotland - that I have known since they were very young. I've kn...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 22nd December, 2009
The Audio Revision Project at Lochaber High School is a really good example of how learning resources can be provided in alternative formats. The project is a collaboration between Dyslexia Lochaber, who raised the funding and organised some volunteer narrators, and Lochaber High School. Revision...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 22nd December, 2009
Spoken Ink is a new web site offering downloadable audio short stories by authors such as Roald Dahl, Angela Carter, Julian Barnes, Margaret Atwood "and a host of new and unknown talent." Most of the stories cost 99p to download and you can listen to them on your computer, MP3 player, mobile phon...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 22nd December, 2009
Last Friday we gave a couple of talks on assistive techology and AAC, to students on the Moray House Primary Postgraduate course, and here's the powerpoint presentation. It is a whistle-stop tour through Communication, Access, Literacy and Learning. The presentation is a PDF and the notes for each...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 18th December, 2009
This is a chance for you to help improve the accessibility of Glow. If Glow is to fulfil it's aims it needs to be accessible to every pupil in Scotland and one way of helping many pupils with visual or reading difficulties is through 'text-to-speech' software, so that pupils can have material on G...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 16th December, 2009
The latest edition of the Accessibility Action Group newsletter is well worth a read and shows how much is going on in the field of accessible formats. For example: new guidelines for publishers in how they should respond to requests for permission to adapt books or for digital versions of ...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 14th December, 2009
Lots of teachers, pupils and parents are interested in scanning books into the computer, converting it readable text, so that for example: pupils with physical disabilities can press a key on the keyboard, or click a switch, to turn the pages, or dyslexic pupils can have the text read out ...
Posted by Robert Stewart on the 8th December, 2009
The SL40 Connect is a new addition to the Lightwriter SL40 product range which replaced the much loved SL35. As well as providing text-to-speech communication capabilities through face to face communication or by Short Message Service (SMS) texting, it also now gives the user the ability to make...
Posted by 14 on the 7th December, 2009
Just a reminder about another source of great and FREE resources! Have a look at the Plasma Screen and WhiteBoard Room created and managed by the Advisory Unit Computers in Education, which offers freely downloadable "Whiteboard resources for pupils with SLD, PMLD and ASD". Most of the resou...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 4th December, 2009
The University of Edinburgh celebrated 40 years of commercialisation with an exhibition and reception in the Playfair library on November 16th 2009. The Smart Wheelchair was Mr (or should that be Miss?) 1987 - the year when we started work on the first protoype. The event was attended by His Roya...
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