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Derek Hunt Education Commons Adaptive Technology Derek Hunt Education Commons

www.oise.utoronto.ca/adaptivetech

Resources in OISE Labs & Adaptive Tech Cart OSAPAC (osapac.org) Licensed Products: Dragon Naturally Speaking Clicker 5 SmartIdeas Co:Writer 4000 Solo Write:Outloud Solo Other: Kurzweil 3000 Inspiration 8.0 Kidspiration 3.0 Read and Write Gold (some boards like TDSB have it)

Concept Mapping and Idea Organization SmartIdeas helps visual learners Assists students who have difficulty organizing their ideas

Reading Software | Text-to-Speech Kurzweil offers redundant or alternative modality for those with a visual or learning disability audio output + reading prompts and guides ostudent7:student

Voice Recognition Dragon user speaks into a microphone to navigate software applications, surf the web spoken words are translated to text by the software

Alternative Keyboards & Pointers... keyboards offer larger or smaller target areas different mouse or pointing device portable word processors

Built-in Operating System tools Ease of Access tools available with Windows Screen Magnification High-contrast Cursor thickness MAC OSx Accessibility options Zoom VoiceOver

iPad & mobile technology Can be used as a supplement for various subjects Preliminary research has shown intentional engagement with the technology, increased communication and social interaction http://individual.utoronto.ca/rmcewen Apps include: Proloquo2go, LookInMyEyes, AutismExpress Rhonda McEwen presentation on autism and iPads/iPod touch devices (14:09)

Mobile technology

Customizable keyboard / interface

AAC – Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Software video examples Dragon - speech to text and voice control: Dragon Naturally Speaking demo (3:24) Dragon Basic Editing (1:34) Dragon Searching the Web (0:34) Kurzweil – text to speech: Kurzweil 3000 demo (5:05) Kurzweil 3000: Changes Lives (2:32) Kurzweil 3000: More than Text-to-Speech (5:08) Read & Write Gold - Writing aids Read & Write Gold (20:00)

Other Adaptive Technology Videos Proloquo2Go (13:00) [Autism alternative communication] Livescribe (2:51) [digital pen] Google Car (3:01) [self driving car] Tap Tap See (6:38) [object identification] BuzzClip (2:00) [infrared object detection] Microsoft Kinect (5:33) [detect and convert sign language] Exoswitch (2:09) [hand gestures for computer input] EssayJack (3:16) [essay writing aid] IBM Smartphone Guide (1:34) [camera and GPS object detection]

Additional Readings and Resources AbleData (www.abledata.com) The Abledata web site provides objective product information, resources and publications about assistive technology products and equipment. Educause - 7 Things You Should Know About IT Accessibility library.educause.edu/resources/2014/8/7-things-you-should-know- about-it-accessibility AlphaSmart: A History of One of Ed-Tech's Favorite (Drop- Kickable) Writing Tools http://hackeducation.com/2015/07/25/alphasmart

Free web based resources Text to speech: http://www.fromtexttospeech.com/ (save as MP3 file) http://www.acapela-group.com/text-to-speech-interactive-demo.html Concept Mapping: http://spiderscribe.net/ http://popplet.com/

Education Commons, OISE Thanks Education Commons, OISE www.oise.utoronto.ca/ec www.oise.utoronto.ca/adaptivetech Derek Hunt @HuntDerek Derek.Hunt@utoronto.ca