2010 SQA Digital Question papers now available
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 8th November, 2010
SQA have made all the 2010 adapted digital papers available on the SQA web site. There are over 400 papers covering a wide range of subjects. These past papers are ideal for revision and practice, for pupils who are going to be sitting prelims with digital papers, or are intending to 'go digital'...
WordTalk for Windows 7 (32-bit) now available
Posted by Robert Stewart on the 2nd November, 2010
A new version of WordTalk is now available for Windows 7 (32-bit). Unfortunately the Windows 7 (64-bit) version is not yet ready. WordTalk is a free text-to-speech plugin developed for use with Microsoft Word. It will speak the text of the document and will highlight it as i...
Is sushi on the menu?
Posted by 14 on the 29th October, 2010
Kids with physical disabilities often need to use 'scanning' (and switching) to access their communication and/or writing programs. Scanning is a widely misunderstood word. A good definition was coined by David Colven and Simon Judge in 'Switch Access to Technology'. They say: "I...
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...
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