Heather the Scottish Computer Voice needs a brother!
Posted by Robert Stewart on the 15th October, 2010
The Scottish Voice has been very well received by the Scottish educational community and we know that she is being used to listen to: SQA digital exams; novels; digital textbooks; Microsoft Word documents; resources on Glow. She is also used by children who can’t...
New in CALL (Issue 27) available for download
Posted by Robert Stewart on the 14th October, 2010
Issue 27 of 'New in CALL', the free news, views and events leaflet is now available for download. Inside this issue: Print Disability Licence; The Royal Mail Book Awards; iPad or Kindle; Augmentative Communication in Practice: Scotland study day; 2010-2011 CPD Calendar. ...
cool tools for schools!
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 1st October, 2010
We've recently found out about the Cool Tools for Schools wiki. This is an amazing resource, with lots of free / online tools that can be used by teachers and pupils (assuming they are allowed access online). Resources are categorised under the following headings: Presentation Tools ...
Electronic textbooks from RNIB
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 14th September, 2010
Over 100 textbooks (mainly for the English curriculum) and novels in Word 2003 format are now available from RNIB. The books were produced as a result of the Accessible Resources Pilot project led by Dolphin and Inclusive Technology. There is a list of the books available on the RNIB web site. T...
towards an autism strategy for scotland
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 10th September, 2010
The Scottish Government, working in partnership with the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Reference Group, have developed a draft Scottish Autism Strategy. The Strategy sets out what the Scottish Government in partnership with users, carers and professionals proposes to do to meet the needs of...
Boardmaker 6 Plus! (again)
Posted by 14 on the 9th September, 2010
CALL has previously alerted folk to the cheap deal on Boardmaker software available through LTS, for Scotland. Since LTS revamped their web site, the page link we gave before has become defunct. Look here for current prices It's rumoured that the deal may 'run out' once a ceiling...
reading web pages (revisited)
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 31st August, 2010
During the early part of 2009 we spent some time comparing different text-to-speech utilities that could be be used to read text aloud from web sites and published our conclusions in our Reading the Web information sheet. At the time, we found the best option was to use the free Click Speak utilit...
Communication Matters!
Posted by 14 on the 24th August, 2010
Anybody who is interested in augmentative communication for their pupils, clients or family member needs to be aware of the annual Communication Matters (CM) Symposium. This is a UK-wide conference - actually becoming increasingly international - held every September (26-28 September, this year, i...
Dyslexia Scotland Education Conference Saturday 25th September
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 27th July, 2010
If you teach or support children and young people with dyslexia, you will be interested in the Dyslexia Scotland Education Conference which this year will be held on Saturday 25th September at the Edinburgh Conference Centre at Heriot-Watt University. The theme of the conference is "Innovative ...
Accessible Formats from your local library
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 16th July, 2010
Forbes Smith, who is coordinating a working group looking at provision of accessible formats in East Dunbartonshire, emailed recently to say that East Dunbartonshire Library Service now has a service for providing downloadable audiobooks. So far they have over 560 titles available for immediate do...
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