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Tag: Assistive Technology
Can Simplicity Make AAC Emotional?
Insanely Simple Insanely Simple by Ken Segall is an incredible book. It opened my eyes, changed my mind, and helped me understand what my son was trying to teach me. My son likes simplicity. He would rather you leave something out, and make it work, than leave it in at the risk of diminished functionality. This…
A Great Review for Quick Talk AAC
We believe technology is meant to help those with disabilities overcome their human limits, which is exactly what Quick Talk AAC has been able to do.
Education & Android?
The Galaxy S III is due to arrive in the U.S. this summer. This will be one of the cutting edge phones delivered to consumers with a 4.8 inch screen, Android 4.0, as well as an assortment of voice and video tools. The Galaxy S III will even come with its own pen, and…
Scholastic Highlights Our TouchSmart Project
Digital Scribbler Inc. was born from an experimental project in partnership with Hope Technology School. This project utilized the HP TouchSmart in an early effort to leverage multi-touch computing in the classroom. Scholastic recently highlighted this project here. The original case study can be found here. We leveraged our experiences with the TouchSmart to begin…
Creating an AAC Communication Game-plan
“What you want is a real talisman, a magic something you think I conjured up to coax Temple into joining life, as you hope your child will. There was no magic; there was just doing the best I could. That’s the point; that’s the talisman.” Eustacia Cutler, A Thorn in My Pocket I am grateful…
Could Apple Revolutionize Special Education?
Let’s take just one stakeholder example: students with disabilities, as well as their teachers and parents. Autism advocate and software developer Russ Ewell from the Hope Technology Group is excited. “Apple could unlock another door for autism with this breakthrough,” Ewell said. “Parents could create social story books.” So could special education teachers or therapists,…
The Tyranny of Routine
The lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you’re writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don’t have to do it over. Gary Oldman, Esquire Magazine, What I’ve Learned, December 16, 2011 Technology is not…Reflections on Hacking Autism
Americans’ entrepreneurial self-esteem is now embodied by Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon. These are indeed fabulously innovative companies with world-beating business models. Yet one wonders if they are increasingly the exception, not the rule, and if the passing of Mr Jobs is simply the most prominent example of a broader decline in American entrepreneurship. Steve…