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Assistive Technology

"Assistive technology devices and...services should enable some individuals
with disabilities to have a greater control over their own lives."
Read INTRODUCTION

 
Enrichment
Activities that go above and
beyond the standard curriculum
Link to Files
 

 
Dayle on TVDayle's Video Reflections
Dayle Upham, author of Making the Grade: Reflections on Being Learning Disabled, offers introductory comments. You will need the Windows Media Player to view the movie
Windows Media 9 Player, download free  Play Movie (Streaming wmv file)

  

 

Examples of Student Proposals in Assistive Technology  (under construction)

 

Resources for Assistive Technology

Web Sites:

Florida Assistive Technology Education Network  www.aten.scps.k12.fl.us

Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps  www.tash.org

Learning Disabled Association of America   www.ldanatl.org

National Spinal Cord Injury Association   www.spinalcord.org

Wisconsin Assistive Technology initiative   www.wati.org

Brain Injury Association Inc.  www.biausa.org

National Association for the Deaf   www.nad.org

American Council for the Blind   www.acb.org

Council for Exceptional Children   www.cec.sped.org

Cast   www.cast.org

The Alliance for Assistive Technology   www.ataccess.org

Assistive Technology in the Classroom   www.myschools.com/features/sctn/getpage.cfm?ID=1293

The National Institute at Landmark College   www.landmarkcollege.org/natlinst/assistive_technology/

The National Center to Improve Practice (NCIP)  http://www2.edc.org/NCIP/

Wisconsin’s Assistive Technology Initiative  www.wati.org/pdf/Student_Handbook.pdf

www.wati.org/resourceguidegeneral.pdf

“Web Toolboxes for Educators”  www.ed.sc.edu/caw/toolboxsource.html

www.ed.sc.edu/caw/toolboxvendors.html

Assistive Technology Training Online Project (ATTO)   http://atto.buffalo.edu/registered/Tutorials/talkingBooks/powerpoint.php

http://atto.buffalo.edu

University of Virginia Library’s Etext Center  http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/ebooklist.html

Cool Assistive Technology Tools for the Classroom   www.sc.edu/scatp/cooltools.htm

South Carolina Assistive Technology Project’s   www.sc.edu/scat
 

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