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Self-Selected Reading: Books for Every Reader

May 15, 20151 Comment

The AGOSCI Conference continued today. My first presentation for the day was with the fabulous Sally Clendon on the topic of Self-Selected Reading. As promised, the handout for the presentation is shared here. Display content from SlideShare Click here to display content from SlideShare. Learn more in SlideShare’s privacy policy (opens in a new tab).

Do’s and Dont’s of Implementing Real Communication Through AAC

May 14, 20158 Comments

Today I was delighted to present with David Niemeijer from AssistiveWare on this topic on the first day of the AGOSCI National Conference. As promised during the presentation, the handout can be accessed here. For those of you who can’t be at the conference – check out lots of great information on Twitter using the

AAC: Systemic Change for Individual Success

May 14, 20154 Comments

Last year I wrote a blog post about AAC: Systemic Change for Individual Success. This is something I feel very strongly about – so I also submitted it as a presentation for this year’s National AGOSCI Conference. The presentation was today, Day 1 of #AGOSCI2015 – and I promised those attending that I would share

AAC apps list updated

Apr 16, 201515 Comments

Updated to add: The AAC Apps list has been discontinued. I’m very pleased to say that I have just updated the AAC apps list again! This time 106 of the existing apps have been updated and there are 23 new apps. You can see a list of all the Additions and Updates by clicking here.

Switch Accessible Apps List: Updated!

Mar 7, 201511 Comments

Updated to add: The Switch Accessible Apps List has been discontinued. It has been quite some time since we updated our switch accessible apps list – nearly 18 months in fact! During this time we have been focusing on the Switch Control built into iOS and learning the range of options it now provides.

Keedogo & Keedogo Plus: Custom Keyboards for the iPad

Oct 26, 20145 Comments

Recently Apple released iOS8 – and once again there were a number of accessibility features added with this update. For a round up of accessibility changes and additions check out the excellent summary from AbleNet – iOS8 Accessibility. One of the new features is the ability for developers to create their own onscreen keyboards for

Using the AAC apps list

Oct 6, 20142 Comments

Updated to add: The AAC Apps list has been discontinued It’s October, so it’s International AAC Awareness Month. As a result I thought it was time to blog about one of the most accessed resources on this website – the AAC apps list. Earlier this year we needed to do some changes to the AAC

Picture Books for Older Readers Update

Aug 23, 20142 Comments

It’s the end of the Book Week here in Australia – so I thought I’d do a quick book based post. Early in August I wrote a post about Picture Books for Older Readers which is linked to a Pinterest Board of the same name. I’ve had several people ask me for a text based

ISAAC 2014 Handouts

Aug 6, 2014

The ISAAC 2014 Conference in Lisbon was fabulous! Big congratulations to the Conference Co-Chairs, Luis Azevedo, Margarida Nunes da Ponte, Pedro Encarnação and Isabel Amaral. Also a big thanks and congratulations to ISAAC, the organisers and everyone involved, including the amazing volunteers who were such good hosts. For those of you who attended my sessions

Picture Books for Older Readers

Aug 3, 201416 Comments

I often get asked for suggestions of picture books for older readers. Books, written at a simple level, that have content to appeal to teenagers or adults. Tar Heel Reader is the best source I’ve found for books like this – but there are also many commercially available books that meet this need. The fabulous