Assistive Tech for Testing Merges Into Mainstream

As students with disabilities in Virginia's Fauquier County district take online assessments, they have access to a toolbox of technologies that can make it easier to show what they know. An optic mouse can help magnify text; a text-to-speech tool provides a spoken version of exam questions; and various switches and joysticks, for those unable to use a mouse and keyboard, can be merged with the assessment.


Assistive Tech for Testing Merges Into Mainstream - Education Week












"Life on the Autism Spectrum can be ENJOYable."

Technology helps families dealing with Autism work straight from their homes

A Kansas City doctor has found a way to bring specialized treatments to children with Autism without making parents drive more than 5 miles from their home.
Audrey Lintner knew early on her son was different than most kids.
“Oh gosh, since he was a baby,” she said.
Tommy was diagnosed with Autism last year.
“It’s very difficult to convince him to stop for whatever reason, I’m in this pattern I need to finish this pattern,” said Lintner.
One in 50 kids around the U.S. are diagnosed Autistic and the number is rising.
“There’s also research that shows that those individuals that are higher functioning, that as they age out of school and they age into young adulthood, that they’re unemployed and they’re underemployed,” said Dr. Linda Heitzman-Powell, who is specialized in Autism research.
Heitzman-Powell has helped hundreds of families dealing with autism.
She's educated parents, like Audrey, without forcing them to travel thousands of miles to get to her.
Instead, she helps treat kids through a webcam.
She’s taught Audrey new techniques to help give Tommy structure and grow in basic social skills.
“You change the learning outcome, you change the trajectory,” said Powell.
Sixteen weeks of training has given her a whole new perspective on helping her son and even herself.
“I think it helped me possibly more than it’s helping Tommy,” she said.
Heitzman-Powell says they plan to provide the program to Spanish speaking families in the near future.

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Technology helps families dealing with Autism work straight from their homes

"Life on the Autism Spectrum can be ENJOYable."

Hacking For Autism: Life Changing Apps

Apps for Autism

John Fairchild, Gary Bryan, Lois Brady, Doug Goldie 1st place with VIP (Virtual Interactive Practice)...  Coming together with a room of programmers, designers, developers and supporters for a 24hr marathon of brain storming, code crunching and demoing is an experience to remember.

Twilio and Autism Speaks Host Hackathon
Read about it in Cnet, too!
Technology, Speech Therapy and Autism

Hacking For Autism: Life Changing Apps | Speech Therapy for Autism

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"Life on the Autism Spectrum can be ENJOYable."

TEDMED - redefining the word 'disabled'

Aimee Mullins TEDMED 2009 Record breaking athlete Aimme Mullins delivers an outstanding talk that properly redefines the word 'disabled'.

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More than a year after the federal government replaced mental retardation with intellectual disability in many laws, officials are looking to shift away from other offensive terms too.

More TEDMED (Technology Entertainment Design + Medicine) that may interest the Developmental Disabilities, Sensory Processing, Disabilities Rights and Special Needs communities --

Michael Graves TEDMED 2011 Following a stay in a rehab center, the architect realized that most hospitals ignore critical resident needs. He set out to change all that with attractive, efficient, patient-centered rooms. Andrew Dawson (Day 2) TEDMED 2011 Dawson, a performance artist, portrays the experience of one man's loss of proprioception, a sense of where our bodies are in space, and how he learned to think about movement again. Sekou Andrews and Steve Connell TEDMED 2011 Laugh more, stretch, quiet the mind. The spoken-word artists do an inspiring, fiery riff on how to get and stay healthy, and how our own good health inspires our mood, relationships and success. Mehmet, Lisa and Daphne Oz TEDMED 2010 Dr. Oz, his wife Lisa, and daughter Daphne explain that the foundation to a strong family is a supportive marriage, healthy eating, and hands-on parenting. Frances Jensen TEDMED 2010 As an expert on epilepsy, Frances Jensen speaks about brains, teenagers and the link between both. David Pogue TEDMED 2009 David Pogue explains how the iPhone might save your life!

Eric Topol TEDMED 2009 Eric talks about the frontiers of wireless medicine!

Paul Jacobs TEDMED 2009 Paul Jacobs (CEO Qualcomm) discusses the advancements in wireless health technologies.

Cheryl Pegus TEDMED 2011 How do we get cutting-edge medicine to our neediest communities? Walgreens' Chief Medical Officer speaks about how pharmacies can also be healthcare providers.

Aneesh Chopra and Farzad Mostashari TEDMED 2011 Mostashari, National Coordinator for Health IT at the DHHS, and Chopra, the U.S. CTO, talk about how open access to electronic health data can reform physician pay and patient care.

Regina Benjamin TEDMED 2011 The U.S. Surgeon General talks about how preventive health care can help fight leading causes of death, and why it's so hard for doctors to provide it.

Craig Fugate TEDMED 2010 Craig Fugate talks about how FEMA and the federal government are learning to respond faster and more effectively to national disasters.

Alexandra Drane TEDMED 2010 Truly passionate talk about 'Engaging with Grace" on the 'end of life' issue. Have you talked with the people you love? Don't miss this brief, yet very powerful presentation from Alexandra Drane.

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"Life on the Autism Spectrum can be ENJOYable."

50 new tech tools you should know about

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"Life on the Autism Spectrum can be ENJOYable."

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• Social Lives and Teens with Autism (autismspeaks.org)
• Understanding The Diagnostics Of Autism And Aspergers Syndrome (aspergersinfo.wordpress.com)
• A social network for teens on the autism spectrum (springwise.com)
• It's official. Emily is on the autism spectrum (bubbytimes.blogspot.com)
• Researchers Use Workshops To Teach Job Skills And Learn More About Families With Children On The Autism Spectrum (medicalnewstoday.com)
• Proposed DSM 5 Changes and Autism: What Parents & Advocates Need to Know (pdresources.wordpress.com)
• Healthcare, Technology and Autism converge at CES 2012 (autismspeaks.org)
• How kids with autism spend screen time (sciencedaily.com)
• When National Charities Offend Those They Are Supposed To Serve (lizditz.typepad.com)
• Just Two of Those Days (frumesarah.com)

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INKLING for iPad demo during AIM at AHEAD Conf. 2011!

INKLING for iPad demo!

Awesome demo during the Meeting of the Advisory Commission on

PostSecondary Education for Students with Disabilities (AIM Commission) 

AIM is being hosted by the Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD) during its' Conference 2011

'EnjoyHi5!Autism'  Highlights:

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  I have an INKLING that Students with Disabilities will enjoy these interactive textbooks for iPad!

  
  

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"Enjoying the Hi-5s of Autism - A Family Experience" ‎'Like' inkling as a Facebook page, too! http://www.facebook.com/pa​ges/Inkling/377802230525?s​k=app_7146470109

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'White House Disability Call' - Follow-up

'White House Disability Call' Follow-up

Yesterday, many of us joined federal agency heads on the phone to receive updates and pose questions about transportation, education and civil rights, labor/compliance for people with disabilities:(see post)
'Enjoying The Hi-5's of Autism - A Family Experience': White House Disability Call

“The Department of Education enforces Section 504 with respect to public and private colleges and universities that receive federal financial assistance from the Depart of Education. Under title III(Americans with Disabilities Act), individuals with disabilities, including students with visual impairments, may not be discriminated against in the full and equal enjoyment of all of the goods and services of private colleges and universities;…” U.S. Department of Justice-Civil Rights Division [statement posted on the Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Education]

Reference links for WHD Call Q & A information:

Dial in for Listeners: (800) 230-1085

Press Release: Office of Civil Rights: 'Guidance on Technology & Rights of Students with Disabilities' - US Dept. of Education

Department of Education Issues Guidance on Rights of Students With Disabilities when Educational Ins

Electronic Book Readers & Accessibility for Students (with Blind or Low Vision)- Letter to College & University Presidents

Joint - Dear Colleague Letter: Electronic Book Readers

Joint Department of Justice and Department of Education "Dear /College or University President Letter on Electronic Book Readers & Accessibility for Students with Blind or Low Vision


Joint-Dear Colleague Letter: Electronic Book Readers

AskArne@ed.gov - Send your Questions, Comments to US Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan

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