Posted by Allan Wilson on the 9th November, 2015
"Doran" is "shorthand" for the process of implementing the recommendations of the report produced in 2012 by Peter Doran and colleagues aimed at providing better outcomes and experiences for children and young people with complex additional support needs. The recommendations are ...
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 26th October, 2015
Ever since we first produced our wheel of iPad Apps for Learners with Dyslexia / Reading and Writing Difficulties in October 2013, we've had regular requests for a similar wheel for tablets and smartphones that use the Android operating system. IPads are used much more frequently than Android de...
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 29th September, 2015
Bobath Scotland have a couple of interesting events coming up in Glasgow next month.
First of all, on Wednesday 7th October they are holding their Annual Conference in the Radisson Blu hotel, Argyll Street, Glasgow to mark World Cerebral Palsy Day. This event is free and open to all. It will provide...
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 23rd October, 2014
[We have been asked to circulate information on a couple of surveys that Bobath Scotland are carrying out among parents of children with cerebral palsy in Scotland and the practitioners working with them.]
Bobath Scotland Cerebral Palsy Therapy Centre are currently progressing a bid to the Big Lo...
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 16th October, 2014
Crick Software have just released an interesting new keyboard app for the iPad, taking advantage of the new iOS 8 feature that allows different keyboards to be used across a range of different apps. Superkeys Assistive Keyboard divides the keyboard up into a series of 'chunks' of keys.
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Posted by Allan Wilson on the 7th October, 2014
Some people have been having a problem with logging into the Books for All Scotland Database from the Books for All web site since the launch of the new version of Glow. They are getting an error message, "The username or password you entered was incorrect." Please check and try again. The...
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 6th August, 2014
Balabolka is a very powerful, free text to speech program that can be used for a lot of different tasks, including basic text to speech, changing the appearance of text to make it more accessible, reading eBooks and creating audio files. This blog will focus on the use of Balabolka to read eBooks in...
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 29th July, 2014
Following on from Stuart's blog on Changes to Copyright Law (10th July). we've had a series of emails seeking clarification of the practicalities of access to books for people with dyslexia and other reading difficulties. A lot of information about this is available on CALL's Books for A...
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 21st April, 2014
We had a couple of enquiries last week about different aspects of 'text to speech' on an Apple Macintosh computer so it is probably a good time to put together some updated information, particularly relating to the Mavericks (10.9) Operating System. The first related to general text to speec...
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 19th March, 2014
[This is the first blog in an occasional series considering different aspects of the use of speech recognition]
We had some interesting feedback today from a school about a recent loan of a laptop with Dragon NaturallySpeaking software installed for trial use by one of their pupils:
"J&nb...
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