Bookshare - Accessible Print for Print Disabled (iPad info too)

Bookshare is free for all U.S. students with qualifying disabilities. Student memberships are currently funded by an award from the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs.


Bookshare offers accessible books and periodicals for readers with print disabilities by providing a searchable online library. Bookshare offers digital books, textbooks, teacher-recommended

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Using Technology as a Method for Teaching -it is NOT about Teaching Technology Any More!We have had a real shift in the way we are using technology in the classrooms. We are no longer stuck in the place where we need to teach the technology- most of the kids know more than we do! Now it is time to put the technology to work for us as a tool for learning content. What an exciting time! Please take

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Simple Switch Activities

 Nifty Ideas for Simple Switch ActivitiesLet’s get these kids involved!





"Switches provide students with disabilities the opportunity to enhance their learning, recreation, socialization, and communication. Switches also enhance students’ independence and

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Tutorials/Quick Guides

There are on-line tutorials that can be very useful. (When using them, be sure they match the version you have.) The on-line tutorials are usually much shorter, much more to the point and often easier to follow than the manuals that come with the software.







Ablenet, Inc. provides great tutorials and ideasfor their products. One of my favorites is their BIGmack/LITTLEmack guide and

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Talking PowerPoint Books

Use PowerPoint as a way to provide information or as a method for demonstrating knowledge, either way, it can be a very powerful program.



Using PowerPoint to develop books is a wonderful approach that is perfect on any teacher's budget!! Buy a mic and make it into a talking PowerPoint! For younger students this is a great method for providing information, for older students it is a great

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Switch use with Inclusive Technology Programs –Good Program to use: Big BangAllows you to explore what the student is responding to by turning on auditory and/or visual affects.Thoughts-If the switch itself is distracting the student, change out the switch. If you were using a Jelly Bean switch that clicks, maybe using a Pal Pad that doesn’t click would be beneficial.Not sure if they really do

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Eye Exercises for Better Visual HealthGreat little website shared by our Vision Specialist- www.eyecanlearn.com There are many little exercises for Improving your Visual Information Processing Skills, including: Perception, Tracking, Focusing, and Eye TeamingHave a student that needs practice tracking? Try this site!Activities to help with visual discrimination.Check it out!

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