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Assistive Technolgoies

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http://www.ataccess.org

This website is for assistive technologies for K-12 in schools. The provide mini tips and selective software that is best for helping out children with disabilities. They also have success stories and a list of tools that may already be installed in your computer.

 

__http://www.assistivetechnologies.com/index.asp__

This website provides a variety of categories in assistive technology. The view can click on the left to select the category they choose to look at. The web site allows viewers to read details about the equipment as well as the option to purchase.

 

http://www.rehabtool.com/

This site provides computer adaptations and builds custom software for children and adults with disabilities.They offer a variety of high-tech assistive and adaptive technology products for children and adults. They also offer many free services.

 

http://www.kidstogether.org/

This site provides different assistive technologies that can be used. It also talks about inclusion and what can be done to work towards it. It just has a bunch of different tabs that you can click on that talk about assisstive technologies and what teachers can do. It also talks about different types of funding and how to get some of these assisstive technologies. (Jessica Richards 11-21-06)

 

http://www.circleofinclusion.org/

This web site offers demonstrations of and information about the effective practices of inclusive educational programs for children from birth through age eight. It also has interactive lessons and other materials that you can look at and use.(Jessica Richards 11-21-06)

 

http://www.intellitools.com/

This website is another good website to look at and understand what some of the assisstive technologies are. It shows you different assisstive technologies and how to use them and what they are used for. It also talks about different things that teachers can do and how to customize some things depending on their students.(Jessica Richards 11-21-06)

 

http://www.waterfallrainbows.co.uk/learnbslsignlanguage/

This is a good website to teach students how to use sign language. Sign language is a huge assisstive technology to a student that is deaf or hard of hearing. This website can teach fingerspelling and other simple signs that students could use just to be able to communicate with a student that uses sign. (Jessica Richards 11-21-06)

 

www.assistivetech.com

This website provides different assistive technologies that can be used in the classroom. This can help teachers look at the different technologies and decide what can be the best to use in the classroom. These technologies can help children that are hard of seeing and that cannot speak to let the teacher know what they need and to make things easier to read. (Jessica Dean 11/22/06)

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