Clicker 5 is a versatile tool that teachers can use to customise reading and writing materials for learners with beginning literacy skills, and is a useful resource for special education teaching. Learners can ‘click on’ words, phrases, or pictures at the bottom of the screen, and send them to a ‘talking word processer’ to hear the words before they are written, or hear whole sentences when they are written.
Manufacturer: Crick Software
Demonstration: Yes
Loan: No
COMPIC is a set of computer-generated line drawings. It is a library of clear and easily understood drawings, called pictographs, which convey information. Pictographs are the visual representation of a word or a concept.
Manufacturer: Scope
Demonstration: Yes
Loan: No
A product from Nuance Communications, Inc. is a voice input and voice output program designed for use by individuals with spinal cord injury or upper extremity, vision, or learning disabilities. The program also permits hands-free mouse operation using MouseGrid technology. Users can create, move, edit, and format text by voice command in virtually all Windows applications, including word processors, spreadsheets, web browsers, and more. The program is integrated with Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, Microsoft Outlook, and Lotus Notes, allowing spoken text to appear immediately in a document. Select-and-Say editing permits editing by voice. Corrections can be made by voice or by keyboard, and corrections can be made immediately or delayed to a later time. The program also offers dictation playback, enabling the user to hear what he or she has written before editing. Text-to-speech capability also enables users to have their own documents or other files such as e-mail read aloud. The program supports multiple users and each user “trains” the system as it is being used; the system learns accents, dialects, and individual pronunciations automatically.
Manufacturer: Nuance Communications, Inc.
Demonstration: Yes
Loan: limited to inhouse trial
Protect your iPad 2 with this protective housing. Complete with rubberized corners, a small slide cover, and amplified speakers, you will not have to worry about damaging your iPad. More importantly, the iAdapter 2 is also an amplifier with dual speakers that will deliver clean crisp sound that can be heard in the noisiest of settings turning your iPad 2 into an effective AAC device. It comes with a rechargeable Lithium-Polymer battery, shoulder strap for portability and a plastic stand for table top use. The front and rear cameras are taken into consideration with iAdapter 2.
Manufacturer: Amdi
Demonstration: Yes
Loan: Yes
IntelliKeys is an alternative keyboard designed to meet the needs of students with physical disabilities. It is a customizable, flat, touch-sensitive device. Unlike standard keyboards with a fixed set of keys, the configuration of IntelliKeys can be easily changed by sliding different overlays onto the touch sensitive area.
Manufacturer: Intellikeys
Demonstration: Yes
Loan: Yes
iPad is a touch screen device that functions like Apple’s iPod Touch or iPhone but is the size of a netbook with a 9.7” screen. Two main things that were added to the iPad 2 with applicability to Accessibility were FaceTime and PhotoBooth. VoiceOver on the iPad also gives you information about your device – including battery level, network signal level, and time of day. It also lets you know if the screen display changes to landscape or portrait orientation and when the screen is locked or unlocked. Thanks to the intelligent keyboard with predictive text, autocorrect and autocapitalization, a lot of the work is taken out of typing. Speak Auto-text lets you know what corrections it’s making, and you can choose to accept those changes by pressing the spacebar or you can keep typing your intended word to override Auto-text’s suggestion. Persons who have experienced hearing loss in one ear can utilize the mono audio feature, which allows users to hear the left and right channels’ audio in both ears. Those who are extremely hard of hearing can utilize the iPad 2 FaceTime feature to video chat with others where hand gestures, visual cues or dry erase boards may assist in the conversation. Closed captioning and subtitling are also available on movies purchased from the iTunes Store. By running various applications, the iPod assistive touch becomes a tool with virtually limitless solution!
Manufacturer: Apple
Demonstration: Yes
Loan: Yes