Boardmaker from Toby Churchill - Studio now allows 2 installs
Posted by 14 on the 27th May, 2014
There have been many changes lately for Mayer Johnson and Boardmaker products, in the UK. The latest news is that the Assistive Technology division of the Swedish company Tobii have bought DynaVox and that both DynaVox products and Mayer Johnson products - including the Boardmaker softwar...
Check out the TalkSense website: ideas re literacy and AAC
Posted by 14 on the 26th May, 2014
Acquiring literacy is notoriously challenging for learners with complex communication support needs, who use AAC. Have a look at Tony Jones' inspiring web-site TalkSense, for 101 ideas that may support literacy teaching and learning for learners who need AAC, in your...
CALL Scotland\'s new AAC Apps Wheel
Posted by 14 on the 23rd May, 2014
The new CALL Scotland AAC Apps Wheel is now officially 'launched' and available for free download and sharing. Enjoy, and pass it on! The AAC Apps wheel is in .PDF format and was designed for display in A3 poster size but it works equally well (only smaller!) as ...
Sharing Learning Resources in Word between Windows and iPad
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 13th May, 2014
Last week at the CALL Scotland RTC launch I presented a workshop on iPads and Dyslexia, and one of the topics we considered was sharing of learning resources between Windows and iPad. Many teachers use Microsoft Word to create curriculum resources, and so a fundamental question is “h...
call is an apple regional training centre
Posted by 4 on the 9th May, 2014
CALL Scotland is delighted to announce that today we became an accredited Apple Regional Training Centre. CALL is now one of the 100 or so learning hubs across the UK that promote collaboration and sharing of resources and best practices with teachers and the wider education comm...
text to speech and reading books with mavericks
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 21st April, 2014
We had a couple of enquiries last week about different aspects of 'text to speech' on an Apple Macintosh computer so it is probably a good time to put together some updated information, particularly relating to the Mavericks (10.9) Operating System. The first related to general text to speec...
New John Muir Graphic Novel available in accessible digital format
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 16th April, 2014
A new graphic novel based on the life of John Muir, the Scottish pioneering conservationist was launched by the Scottish Book Trust earlier this month. The novel is written by award-winning author Julia Bertagna and illustrated by Glasgow-based artist William Goldsmith, and free copies are being...
Dragon NaturallySpeaking on inexpensive laptops
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 2nd April, 2014
Recently there has been renewed interest in the potential of speech recognition for learners with writing and literacy difficulties (partly as a result of the restriction on use of a scribe for assessing writing at National 3/4 Literacy). Dragon NaturallySpeaking is we think the best speech recognit...
SPEAK all! app for PECS users
Posted by 14 on the 19th March, 2014
I've become interested in a communication app called SPEAK all! designed by researchers at Purdue University specifically for children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder who use PECS. SPEAK all! is still somewhat in development, so I don't want to mislead by over-laud...
speech recognition top tips - part 1
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 19th March, 2014
[This is the first blog in an occasional series considering different aspects of the use of speech recognition] We had some interesting feedback today from a school about a recent loan of a laptop with Dragon NaturallySpeaking software installed for trial use by one of their pupils: "J&nb...
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