Tag Archives: Reading and Writing Difficulties
Useful FREE online resource
Posted in Tools & Resources
Ian Bean December 27, 2011
Ian Bean December 27, 2011
FREE Image Generators This month we’re highlighting this great set of online tools to allow you and your students to create a range of images using your own text. Create a newspaper clipping by simply adding a headline and a story. Great starter for desktop publishing lessons. Lots to choose from; movie clapper boards, banners and even a cigarette packet you can add …
NDCO Tasmania Providing Solutions II Assistive Technology Forum and Engaging VET Learners Workshop
Posted in Apps and Mobile Learning, iPad Basics, Teaching and Learning
Greg O'Connor December 7, 2011
Greg O'Connor December 7, 2011
Greg O’Connor presented the following sessions at the recent Providing Solutions II Assistive Technology Forum and Engaging VET Learners through iPads Workshop in Hobart, November 2011. Click the following links to download his presentations. To view the handout, click here. Providing Solutions II Forum and Engaging VET learners through iPads Workshop http://www.slideshare.net/Speccos/providing-solutions-ii-forum-and-engaging-vet-learners-through-ipads-workshop Introduction to the iPad: Supporting Diverse Learners in VET and Beyond http://www.slideshare.net/Speccos/introduction-to-the-ipad-supporting-diverse-learners-in-vet-and-beyond …
Weally Wonderful Websites V8.0
Posted in Web links
Gerry Kennedy December 6, 2011
Gerry Kennedy December 6, 2011
Weally Wonderful Websites has been updated for the last time in 2011. It has grown to 85 A4 pages in length with new sites added to 75% of the document. Once again I thank people who have contributed especially to Lee Blunt, Greg Alchin and Steven Jurgeit. Please share it on listservs, Twitter Feeds and email it on to colleagues and especially parents. Download …
Weally Wonderful Apps V2.0
Posted in Apps and Mobile Learning, Sources for Quality App Reviews, Web links
Gerry Kennedy December 5, 2011
Gerry Kennedy December 5, 2011
Weally Wonderful Apps V2.0 is an update of the Version 1.0 document. I have added categories that are more descriptive and so the resource should be more user-friendly. Quite a few new apps have been added as well as some new resources and links to articles. I hope that this 13 page document will be useful for educators, therapists and parents in locating suitable …
Intellipad – the Write tool for the iPad
Posted in Apps and Mobile Learning, New Technologies, Teaching and Learning
Jane Farrall November 29, 2011
Jane Farrall November 29, 2011
Intellipad is a relatively new writing app available for the iPad. Developed by an Occupational Therapist who wanted a custom keyboard for her client – the App has become much more than a custom keyboard creator and is a very clever writing and literacy teaching tool. At the most basic level, Intellipad offers a keyboard with word prediction, some basic spell checking and text-to-speech …
Weally Wonderful Apps V1.0
Posted in Apps and Mobile Learning, Sources for Quality App Reviews, Web links
Gerry Kennedy November 10, 2011
Gerry Kennedy November 10, 2011
I have created a new resource in MS Word that just applies to Apps – thus ‘Weally Wonderful Apps’. It is Version 1.0 and has an introductory page and then is followed by six pages of links to resources, articles, reviews. Best-Of sites and teaching and learning supports for people working within education and therapy. It will definitely expand over time and will save …
Universal Access to Reading Software
Posted in Tools & Resources
Gerry Kennedy October 31, 2011
Gerry Kennedy October 31, 2011
1. Introduction Students live in a world of symbols, icons and words. Every day they process printed text online and in printed newspapers, journals and magazines, in school worksheets and handouts, in sports reports, recipes, product information, accounts, social web sites, text messages, online chat and/or emails. As emerging readers, they rely on their reading skills, comprehension and experience to understand and interpret the …
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. …
Perth it’s your turn for a Texthelp Read&Write GOLD Workshop this Month!
Posted in Events, Workshops
Barbara Landsberg August 17, 2011
Barbara Landsberg August 17, 2011
Join us for a full day of hands-on training learning about the NEW Version 10 of the popular Texthelp Read&Write GOLD literacy support software in Perth on Friday 26th August – 9am to 4pm. Where? Rydges Perth | Cnr Hay and King Streets | Perth CBD. Why is the Texthelp Read&Write GOLD program so popular? With so many students in schools and post-secondary institutions …
Co:Writer Unlimited Site Licence
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Barbara Landsberg August 8, 2011
Barbara Landsberg August 8, 2011
For the past 20 years, Co:Writer has been providing support to students who struggle with reading and, particularly, writing. It is an incredibly clever word prediction program, capable of suggesting correctly spelled and grammatically appropriate words in place of misspelled words. This is of great value to students who struggle to even type the first two or three letters correctly. Many other word prediction …
