Assistive Technology
Using assistive technology with Respondus LockDown browser for taking tests in college.
This second installment on the Orbit Reader 20 will focus primarily on the file structure.
Follow Aedan's journey as he learns to use an iPad with VoiceOver.
A guide on how to use twitter for users with blindness and low vision
Great app to help develop visual skills for students with CVI and/or complex special needs!
Learn more about ten artists from history that had suspected or confirmed vision impairment, and how their eyesight influenced their work.
Here is a fun activity that also teaches magnification and zoom skills!
Increase functional vision and visual motor skills with this fun app for young children!
This hands on workshop will discuss and demonstrate over 75 different assistive technology solutions that can be created in minutes!
The Orbit Reader 20 is in demand and available from APH using Federal Quota.
The 06 Smart bluetooth Remote is a great addition to an iPad using VoiceOver.
The final article in the Juliet 120 series will continue our focus on settings on the unit.
With little notice to me, school administrators decided to offer Web Design as a course at our Visually Impaired School. A brief narrative of survival:
Information about uploading and downloading documents from Google Docs or Google Drive.
Copy and paste using the terminal clipboard on the BrailleSense Polaris.
A quick way to use Text to Speech when reading on the iPad.
Create customized digital counting activities in the Pages app!
A beginner's guide to using VoiceOver, no prior technology skills or sight required.
This is Part 3 in a series on the Juliet 120 embosser from Enling Technologies. Part 3 2ill continue our focus on settings on the unit.
Learn about accessible digital graphing with the Braille Note Touch!
O&M lesson ideas to prepare for traveling with a dog.
The Accelerator makes digital charts and graphs accessible! Learn more about accessibility options here.
The Accelerator makes digital charts and graphs accessible! Step-by-step instruction to using the Accelerator.
Turn your O&M lesson into a Treasure Hunt! (Joanne Kennedy)
Teaching "mental mapping" skills to a young student with albinism.
O&M resources are more than just tactile maps - check out this digital book/pdf that reinforces O&M concepts for a vocational student.
Learn how to create O&M books to help your student with memory issues learn his/her routes!
Does your student really understand measurement terms such as feet?
Here is an O&M lesson to help you get started with BlindSquare using VoiceOver.
Using Pictello, an iPad, the P.I.A.F. and braille to create an O&M book for a 2 year old child who is totally blind child.
Teach visual discrimination skills for students 3-8 developmentally with this fun app!
Increase visual skills for students who are developmentally 3- 7 years of age with this fun app!
An iBook created by a student to share with her teacher and class about the technology she uses to access her the regular ed. curriculum.
Give it a spin and bring animals to life with sounds, mini-movies and fun facts!
This training module addresses the principles of Universal Design for Learning and ways to balance universal strategies with individualized needs.
How a seemingly small gesture opened my mind to how I needed to learn and changed my experience of learning and learning media.
How I use PicsArt, a free photo editing app, to simulate my vision impairment so people understand what I see.
This is part two in a series on the Juliet 120 embosser from Enling Technologies. Part two will focus on the menus and settings on the unit.
Using free assistive technology resources to make primary sources accessible for vision impairment.
Information for general education teachers who will have a student with visual impairments or blindness in his/her class.
The second article in this series will focus on Creating Tactile Graphics with Firebird Software.