Education Scotland Wee Blether
Posted by Shirley Lawson on the 12th August, 2020
As part of Education Scotland's Wee Blether series, the CALL Scotland team will be facilitating a FREE one hour session on 27th August on the use of assistive technology to support learners with additional support needs. Thursday 27th August 4:00pm - 5:00pm This is an opportunity for anyone wor...
New Online Professional Learning calendar
Posted by Shirley Lawson on the 12th August, 2020
We are using the current COVID-19 restrictions as an exciting opportunity to move our Professional Learning courses online at least until up to December 2020. These courses would normally be delivered at the University of Edinburgh. Sometimes it can be difficult for teachers to get class cover...
Predictable 6 speaks Scottish!
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 7th August, 2020
The latest version of Predictable 6, the text-based communication app from TherapyBox, can speak with the Scottish adult and child voices Heather, Stuart, Andrew and Mairi. Let's find out how they sound and work. Predictable 6 is a text-based communication aid app for iPad, Android and Windows. ...
Using T2S for Text to Speech on an Android
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 28th July, 2020
Most Android phones and tablets have a built-in text-to-speech facility, known as Select to Speak, that can be used to help people with reading difficulties listen to text from the screen. However, Select to Speak has shortcomings so it cannot be relied on as a general purpose text-to...
Working at Home - Accessing Powerpoint
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 26th June, 2020
Teachers in some local authorities have been creating lessons and exercises combining text, images sound and video in Powerpoint for pupils to try at home. This is working well for many learners, but there can be issues depending on the device that is used to view the file, particularly for learners...
Updated AAC iPad App Wheel Available Now!
Posted by Gillian McNeill on the 24th June, 2020
The CALL Scotland 'wheel' of Apps provides a categorised guide to iPad Apps for individuals with complex communication support needs, who may need to use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC). First published in 2014, I'm pleased to share now that it has had it's 202...
Special Apps for Very Special Learners
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 19th June, 2020
The wonderful Flo Longhorn has been producing new updates to her 2012 book, iPads, Apps and Very Special Learners, with information on some apps that are currently available to support very special learners, typically with complex additional support needs. The latest of these updates is ...
Simpler Access to YouTube
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 19th June, 2020
We were reminded today of the existence of Access:YouTube, which was developed by Access Technology North to provide a simpler interface to YouTube for people with additional support needs. We are not suggesting that people should spend long periods of time staring at YouTube videos, but there are t...
ASL and Technology conference success!
Posted by Shirley Lawson on the 18th June, 2020
A really big thank you to everyone who signed up for our virtual ASN and Technology Conference this week. Due to Covid-19, we were unable to host our scheduled conferences in Glasgow and Edinburgh so made the decision to move it online. We had the amazing total of 570 people sign up at ...
Learning at home - digital textbooks
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 12th June, 2020
Learners who use technology to read and access text need their textbooks in a digital format - so where can we get digital textbooks? Find out in this blog. Many learners with additional support needs have difficulty with ordinary paper textbooks and learning materials. Perhaps your son or daughter ...
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