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Visual thinking tools that make pictures of your thoughts.
What is a Graphic Organizer
Also known as an electronic whiteboard, is a classroom tool that allows images from a computer screen to be displayed onto a classroom board using a digital projector
What is a Smart Board
An app designed to help teachers and therapists empower kids who have limited or no speech with an alternative way to communicate
What is Proloquo2Go?
A symbols-based newspaper for special-needs students available as an iPad app or on the web.
What is News-2-You
Assists people with mobility issues to get around, may be manual or electronically operated.
What is a wheelchair?
A graphic representation of scheduled tasks and activities.
What is a Visual Schedule
Commonly used as communication device for non or low verbal students.
What is an iPad?
Speaking into a device instead of writing or using a mouse.
What is a Voice recognition application?
This app creates visual task cards for younger students.
What is Boom Cards?
Frame that offers stability or balance assistance to people with mobility issues
What is a Walker or Gait Trainer?
They can achieve better hand positioning and movement while they write, resulting in improved handwriting.
What are Adapted Pencils
When a person begins to type, these offer suggestions to assist people who might struggle with spelling
What are Word prediction programs
Benefits children that have hearing loss, that have other auditory and learning problems, such as language delays, central auditory processing disorder, articulation disorders, development delays and students who are learning English as a second language.
What is Sound-Field Systems or FM System?
Reading program that utilizes newspaper articles and allows readers to change the Lexile levels.
What is Newsela?
Not every person can use the same kind of chair.
What is Adaptive Seating?
Boards that you can keep on top of your work surface to help you read and write comfortably.
What are Slant Boards?
Built-in computer screen readers, such as ZoomText that assists people with sight issues.
What are Screen magnifiers?
Enables people with hearing impairment to watch and understand videos.
What is Closed Captioning?
App that allows students and teachers to create digital flashcards. Best for upper elementary, middle, and high school aged students.
What is Quizlet?
Stabilizes feet and legs to assist in walking.
What are Braces?
A sheet of paper broken up into rows and columns with different commands, verbs, adjectives, nouns, etc.
What is a Communication Board?
Designed to help children who have difficulties reading standard print. Common print disabilities can include blindness, dyslexia, or any type of visual impairment, learning disability, or other physical condition that impedes the ability to read
What are Text-to-Speech Assistive tools?
Goes above and beyond the typical proofreading features found in a word processing system, such as correcting words frequently misspelled by students with dyslexia
What is Proofreading Software?
Math practice skills that are aligned with pre-K through Grade 8 provincial curricula, and students' performance is assessed on each objective.
What is Math iXL?
Small speakers inserted into a person's ear canal that amplify frequencies directly to ear drum.
What are Hearing Aids?