Get-together day for People who use AAC
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...
PDFaloud to be discontinued
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....
New \'how-to\' Books for All videos from CALL and Education Scotland
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...
Including All Children in the Scottish Children\'s Book Awards
Posted by Robert Stewart on the 6th September, 2011
The 2011 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 40,000 children registered and an amazing 17,000 vot...
New Equipment in CALL: Tobii C12 and C15
Posted by 14 on the 22nd August, 2011
CALL has recently added the Tobii C12 and the Tobii C15 communication aids to its equipment loan bank. These are both high-end, fully featured PC Windows 7 based communication aids, that can be controlled in many ways, including the built-in touch screen, keyboard, mouse, headmouse, switches...
New equipment at CALL: Toshiba NB250 Netbook
Posted by Robert Stewart on the 17th August, 2011
CALL now has a large bank of netbooks and our latest edition is the Toshiba NB250. A good little netbook which is light weight, cheap (£225 via the Procurement Scotland contract), long 8 hour battery life and relatively fast if you are using one or two programs. Note that netbooks are ...
PCS (Boardmaker symbols) App coming soon
Posted by 14 on the 2nd August, 2011
Aha! Mayer Johnson are publishing an app for iPad and iPod / iPhone, iOS 3.1.3 and above It's coming 'soon'. It will be free. It sounds like it will be especially useful for learning new symbols, and for practising, familiarising and and consolidating knowledge of symbols and their ...
Autobiography of a person who uses AAC
Posted by 14 on the 25th July, 2011
You may be interested to read the newly published autobiography called Ghost Boy of Martin Pistorius who lost his speech at 12 years old. He uses AAC and has succeeded well in life both personally and professionally.
New Phonics boy on the block
Posted by 14 on the 22nd June, 2011
Maybe everyone else already knows about Mr Thorne, but I didn't (Thanks for the tip, Angie McC!!) Wonderful website with videos. It's aimed at teaching / reinforcing synthetic phonics to young children (and parents) but also useful for older children as it's not too babyish (well, OK, giraffe ...
The Scottish Male Voice is chosen!
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 14th June, 2011
Well the votes are in and we can now reveal that the winner is....... SPA! We emailed samples of six male voices out to people who had downloaded Heather, to key contacts in local authorities, FE colleges and Universities, to ICTSLS, members of SICTDG, members of Augmentative Communication in Pr...
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