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...
New Kindle for PC software has text-to-speech
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 31st May, 2011
The Kindle for PC Accessibility Plugin is now available for UK customers (and also for users in Australia, Canada and the U.S.). Kindle for PC is free software for reading Kindle eBooks on your Windows PC. The main feature of the new plugin is a text-to-speech tool which means that blind, visually...
The Dazzling World of Apps
Posted by 14 on the 25th May, 2011
This is an interesting newsletter (from the USA) that draws together a rich list of resources and provides a useful set of iPad/iPod/iPhone App links but also offers some very sensible words of caution about the risk of being 'swept away' by an unrealistic expectation that iPad Apps can meet every...
Fun Stuff - download Pete Wells\' delightfully silly Sensory Stories etc.
Posted by 14 on the 7th May, 2011
A new website (for Portland College, a special school in Sunderland) provides a convenient new location where you can download a pile of delightfully rude and silly sensory stories created by the one and only delightfully silly Pete Wells. Downloads include a multimedia Powerpoint file and a Word fi...
Adobe Reader X and Acrobat Pro X: Pro X is much better for making accessible digital resources
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 30th March, 2011
Adobe have just released new versions of Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat Pro. Adobe Reader is the free program that most people use for reading PDF files, such as the Hodder Gibson textbooks that we distribute for pupils who cannot read the paper versions, or the SQA digital exam papers. Acrobat Pr...
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