More Than Gadgets Conference – Part 2

Hi All

Just following up on Greg’s post I wanted to say how fabulous the More Than Gadgets conference was last week.  The enthusiasm and enjoyment and knowledge and energy was amazing.  It was great to meet so many of you – and we look forward to seeing you again.

The following links provide a PDF of my presentations from the conference:

Literacy for All

Assistive Technology Supports for Literacy

Small Talk Gossip and Tall Stories

Switched On: Online

The following links provide PDFs of Charlene’s presentations at the conference:

Making Talking Books

Engineering the Environment

We’d love to hear your comments about the presentations.

Cheers

Jane

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About Jane Farrall

Jane has been working in the disability and assistive technology field for over 20 years. She has extensive practical experience in both Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) and in teaching children and adults with disabilities to acquire literacy.

Jane has worked as a school and adult service based therapist and literacy teacher. She has also worked as an assistive technology specialist at both ComTEC and at Spectronics and is currently working as an independent consultant in literacy, AAC and Assistive Technology.

She has completed a Masters in Special Education focusing on literacy acquisition in children and adults without speech. Jane is a former Chairperson of AGOSCI (Australian Group on Severe Communication Impairment) and is the founder and organiser of the Big Mouth Camp, a camp for school aged students using speech generating devices and their families. You can get more information about Jane at her website www.janefarrall.com.

7 Responses to More Than Gadgets Conference – Part 2

  1. Trina says:

    Hi Spectronics team
    Love the Blog – great work and fantastic resources!
    Thanks for sharing :)

  2. Barbara says:

    Thanks for the positive feedback – we really appreciate it. :-) We have lots to share … and hope this Blog will be one way to open up our resources and ideas to many more members of our Spectronics community. We welcome any suggestions for improving the Blog too.

  3. Libby Sansome says:

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  5. Shellie Pursey says:

    Great Blog guys :) and i recently attended your Bundaberg Workshop Jane and it was excellent :)
    keep up the great work keeping us all informed.

  6. Debbie Rametta says:

    I found the workshop FANTASTIC and would love to attend another. My daughter desperately needs Read & Write Gold. I think it will really help her and am saving….

  7. Jane Farrall says:

    HI Shellie – thanks for the feedback! I really enjoyed visiting Bundaberg – great group of people. We are in the process of putting your resource CD together so you should get that soon.

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