Paediatric Powered Mobility Workshop 1/11/13
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 3rd October, 2013
Bobath Scotland are running a one day workshop on Powered Mobility for children, led by Ros Livingston and Debbie Field. This is a great opportunity to think and learn about both the evidence base for paediatric powered mobilty and it's importance for children's development and...
Nice new video of P2Go users
Posted by 14 on the 18th September, 2013
Excellent new video released recently by Assistiveware, the Proloquo2Go suppliers. It features an introduction by the wondeful Jane Farrall (AAC specialist) from Australia, and some nice examples of conversational P2Go use by three highly engaged and communicative iPad-using school pupi...
Setting up the iPad for a user of Proloquo2Go
Posted by 14 on the 14th September, 2013
Proloquo2Go is a very popular App for communication, on the iPad. The developers, Assistiveware, provide a number of excellent support materials - videos, tutorial, fact sheets, FAQ, forum for discussion and so on, and you are advised to consult these when getting started. CAL...
Including All Children in the Scottish Children\'s Book Awards
Posted by Robert Stewart on the 11th September, 2013
The Scottish Children's Book Awards is an innovative nationwide reading project in which children and young people from every corner of Scotland read and vote for their favourite Scottish children's books of the year. Last year over an amazing 31,000 votes were cast and c...
Reasonable adjustment or taught dependency? Reader/scribes and ICT in National assessment of Literacy
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 11th September, 2013
As of August 2013, SQA clarified what is and is not a 'reasonable adjustment' for learners with disabilities in assessments, and it seems that this has caused a bit of disquiet in some areas of Scottish education. From speaking to practitioners, I believe that there is a general mis...
free App TELLAGAMI
Posted by 14 on the 29th August, 2013
I have just come across the free App Tellagami It has lots of useful and fun uses for both AAC development and education. You can quickly and easily create an animated single page short picture story by choosing backgrounds (you can take or import your own photos) and customising your a...
Higher set Scottish Texts on the Books for All Database
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 19th August, 2013
We have scanned and uploaded most of the Higher Scottish set texts to the Books for All Database and so they are now available for any of your learners who have print disabilities. The books are PDF files so they can be read on almost any device - Windows or Mac computers, iPads, Android t...
free AAC App
Posted by 14 on the 26th July, 2013
Just to let folks know that there has been a major new update to the AbleNet AAC App Sounding Board. It is a free App anyway and the update is free via the App Store. Sounding Board has always been an attractive option because (as well as being free) and offering all the 'standa...
Calling all Scottish AAC users!
Posted by 14 on the 9th July, 2013
Do you use AAC? Do you know someone who uses AAC (over 15 yrs.)? Please book up NOW and come along on 19th August to a fantastic event at the Corn Exchange in Edinburgh. The fabulous 'Lost Voice Guy', Lee Ridley - the first Stand Up Comedian to use AAC - will be doing a...
National 5 English Set Scottish Texts on the Books for All Database
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 3rd July, 2013
Back in March I gave a presentation at the Developing Teachers in a Post-PC Era conference that we organised with Apple UK, where I suggested that one of the potential benefits of more learners using more new mobile technologies (iPads, tablets, mobiles etc) was that digital books and ...
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