Category Archives: Latest News
Clicker 6: My Favourite Things!
Posted in How to learn more!, Latest News, New Technologies, Opinion
Katie Lyon February 21, 2012
Katie Lyon February 21, 2012
Yes – you heard right - Clicker 6 is soon to be released here in Australia! I have been fortunate enough to get my hands on a copy to have a play and I can tell you – it is fabulous! Clicker 6 builds on the acclaimed support features of its predecessor. Basically it’s new features mean more student independence and less teacher time required! …
Jane Farrall leaving Spectronics in early 2012
Posted in Latest News
Barbara Landsberg December 5, 2011
Barbara Landsberg December 5, 2011
Jane Farrall, Spectronics’ hard-working, talented and uber-dedicated Senior Speech Pathologist and AAC Support Services Manager will be leaving Spectronics on January 20th next year. After nearly seven years as part of the Spectronics Professional Services Team, she has decided to venture out on her own as an independent consultant. While we are sad to be losing such a fabulous member of the Spectronics …
Warringa Park School iPad Project
Posted in Latest News, Teaching and Learning
Barbara Landsberg September 20, 2011
Barbara Landsberg September 20, 2011
Warringa Park School is a special school in Melbourne and was one of the first of many Victorian special schools to roll out iPads to all of its students (almost 300 in total). To learn more about the project read their story online or contact the school’s full-time “iPad Coach”, Dawn Hallett on email hallett.dawn.l@edumail.vic.gov.au. Dawn organises weekly tutorials for staff dedicated to the …
Queensland All Abilities Playground Project
Posted in Latest News
Darren Trentepohl September 12, 2011
Darren Trentepohl September 12, 2011
Did you know that the Queensland Government has helped to really take AAC to the streets? The Queensland All Abilities Playground Project integrates best practice in supporting children with complex communication needs. The installation of multi-modal AAC communication systems in 15 specialised playgrounds around the state, allows the children to use either pictures or signs to chat to family and friends. The website at …
Literacy for ALL students – A World First for a Special School in Wagga Wagga
Posted in Latest News
Barbara Landsberg September 1, 2011
Barbara Landsberg September 1, 2011
Recently Jane Farrall, Spectronics’ Senior Speech Pathologist and AAC Support Services Manager, shared a blog titled Literacy for All at Willans Hill about her involvement in the literacy program for all students at Willans Hill School in Wagga Wagga in New South Wales. She is working with this special school’s Principal to roll out the Four Blocks approach to literacy across her whole school. …
Spectronics no longer selling Tobii Speech Generating Devices and Software
Posted in Latest News
Barbara Landsberg August 25, 2011
Barbara Landsberg August 25, 2011
If you are interested in the area of speech generating devices and AAC, we need to let you know that Spectronics no longer supplies technologies from Tobii Technology in Sweden. These include: the MyTobii P10 eye-controlled computing and communication system; the Tobii C-Series speech generating devices (C8, C12 and C15); the Tobii S32 speech generating device; and Tobii’s software suite (including VS Communicator). These …
Willans Hill School on Radio National
Posted in Latest News
Jane Farrall June 24, 2011
Jane Farrall June 24, 2011
Recently I blogged about the fabulous literacy program at Willans Hill School in Wagga Wagga. (See “Literacy for All at Willans Hill“.) This week, we were very excited as The World Today on Radio National also did a segment on the program. The segment is included below. “Small school talks up literacy program” You can also find the original link to the segment at …
Literacy for All at Willans Hill
Posted in Latest News
Jane Farrall June 3, 2011
Jane Farrall June 3, 2011
In the middle of last year, I was lucky enough to meet Chris Lennon, Principal at Willans Hill School in Wagga Wagga when Chris attended the AGOSCI Literacy Intensive, which was led by Dr Karen Erickson and Dr David Koppenhaver. Chris and I fairly quickly hatched a plan – which was to roll the Four Blocks approach to literacy out across her whole school. …
Going Global to Make a Difference
Posted in Latest News, Tools & Resources, Web links
Charlene Cullen June 2, 2011
Charlene Cullen June 2, 2011
Anna, Laura and Lisa are Occupational Therapy and Speech Pathology students from Curtin University, Perth who travelled to South Africa during May. They were accompanied by staff and seven other allied health students to form a team working as part of the Go Global program.
Variety Motor Mouth Camp 2011
Posted in Events, Latest News
Charlene Cullen May 11, 2011
Charlene Cullen May 11, 2011
I have just returned from the very first Variety Motor Mouth Camp in Perth, Western Australia. Nearly 100 people including school aged kids with their speech generating devices, their parents and siblings and volunteers, gathered for 5 days at a campsite in Point Walter. The weather was gorgeous and the city and Swan River views were amazing but my “favourite thing” of all was …
