Technology for Students with Disabilities
Some things to keep in mind about potential website users:
* They may not be able to see, hear, move, or understand easily.
* They may be in a situation where their eyes, ears, or hands are busy or interfered with; for example, working in a loud environment.
* They may have difficulty reading or comprehending text.
* They may not have or be able to use a keyboard or mouse.
* They may have an early version of a browser, a different browser entirely, a voice browser, or a different operating system.
* They may have a slow connection, a small screen, a text-only screen, etc.
* They may not speak or understand fluently the language in which the document is written.
100+ First ASL words: www.handspeak.com/word/most-used/
The 300 most commonly used signs in American Sign Language (SL)
A financial guide: Helping your child with a disability become a financially secure adult: www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/financial-guide-for-adult-children-with-disabilities/
A Guide to Supporting STEM Education for Students With Disabilities: alexandertutoring.com/supporting-stem-education-students-disabilities/
AFB (American Foundation for the Blind): http://www.afb.org/default.aspx
"Expanding Possibilities for People with vision loss"
ACCESS: YouTube: http://accessyoutube.org.uk/
A switch accessible YouTube site.
ASL Storytelling Online Library Stories: www.pinterest.com/aslstorytelling/asl-storytelling-online-library-stories/
"...a collection of ASL stories produced by the Educational Resource Center on Deafness (ERCOD) at the Texas School for the Deaf."
American Institutes for Research: http://www.air.org/
"AIR’s mission is to conduct and apply the best behavioral and social science research and evaluation towards improving peoples’ lives, with a special emphasis on the disadvantaged."
Assistive Technology: Free and Affordable Help for Everyone: www.couponchief.com/free_resources_assistive_technology
AT3 Center: at3center.net/
"The AT3 Center partners with the Disability Information and Access Line (DIAL) to help people with disabilities get connected to information about local community resources. Launched in 2021 to help people with disabilities access COVID-19 vaccinations, DIAL now provides information from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. ET, Monday–Friday about a variety of essential services such as assistive technology, transportation, housing support, disability rights, and more."
Call Scotland: www.callscotland.org.uk/
"CALL Scotland has been around since 1983 helping children and young people to overcome disability and barriers to learning, and to fulfil their potential"
CAST: http://www.cast.org/
Description and definition for Universal Design for Learning and much more.
College for Students with Disabilities: https://online.maryville.edu/disabilities-guide/
"A Guide for Students, Families and Educators" from Maryville University
The Complete Guide to Scholarships for Students with Disabilities: https://turbo.intuit.com/blog/relationships/scholarships-for-students-with-disabilities-3580/
Curb Cuts: 99percentinvisible.org/episode/curb-cuts/
The history of Curb Cuts, the importance of Ed Roberts in the movement to demand society see disabled people in a new way, and many other interesting facts in this podcast by 99% Invisible.
DO-IT: http://www.washington.edu/doit/
"Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology"
Graduate School success for Students with Disabilities: https://www.gograd.org/resources/students-with-disabilities/
Scholarships, support Resources, and Expert Insight for Achieving an Advanced Degree"
How to have your iPhone or iPad highlight text as it reads your screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GB-VntNWbY&feature=youtu.be
How to organize your child's IEP binder: www.understood.org/en/articles/how-to-organize-your-childs-iep-binder
Find out how to make an IEP binder with this step-by-step article, video, and downloads from Understood
Inclusive Design for Outdoor Spaces: www.greenschoolyards.org/inclusive-design
"Nature enhances Learning and Play for students of all abilities"
Inclusive Technology: http://www.inclusive.co.uk/
Indianapolis Public Library: Video Read Alouds for kids in American Sign Language: www.indypl.org/blog/for-parents/read-alouds-for-kids-in-asl
LDonline: http://www.ldonline.org/
"The educator's guide to learning disabilities and ADHD"
NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access): http://www.nvaccess.org/
"NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access) is a free “screen reader” which enables blind and vision impaired people to use computers. It reads the text on the screen in a computerised voice. You can control what is read to you by moving the cursor to the relevant area of text with a mouse or the arrows on your keyboard."
NVDA can also convert the text into braille if the computer user owns a device called a “braille display”.
Oh, The Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss - ASL version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO9JRRHdiS0
With available English subtitles
PPR: Koester Performance Research: http://www.kpronline.com/index.php
"Koester Performance Research works to enhance computer access for people with disabilities, particularly for people who are not well-served by the typical keyboard and mouse."
Quality Indicators for Assistive Technology: http://www.qiat.org/index.html
"Guiding the Provisions of Quality AT Services
The QIAT Community is a nationwide grassroots group that includes hundreds of individuals who provide input into the ongoing process of identifying, disseminating, and implementing a set of widely-applicable Quality Indicators for Assistive Technology Services in school settings that can be used as a tool to support:
RESNA: http://www.resna.org/
Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America
SENICT Software: http://www.senictsoftware.com/index.html
"Accessible software and online teaching activities"
Sign Language Resource Online: http://www.handspeak.com/
Specialbites: http://www.specialbites.com/index.html
"On Specialbites you will find switch games to download and now tons of 'online switch games' which are also great on a touchscreen and for learning early mouse skills."
Special education: history, resource, advice: https://www.wgu.edu/blog/special-education-history-resources-advice2001.html
Western Governors University has curated a guide to some of the most popular resources for children and parents with disabilities. Additionally the guide takes a look at the history of Special Education in America. From Lyndon Johnson’s ESEA in 1966 to the ECSA of 2015 the guide examines what each piece of legislation materially did for those with disabilities as well as explaining what the bureaucratic bodies that enforce them do.
Symbolworld.org: http://symbolworld.org/
Teaching Math and Computer Science to Kids with Special Needs: www.bitira.com/crypto-stem-for-kids-with-special-needs/
Tips for Online Shopping With Disabilities: A Website Accessibility Guide: https://couponfollow.com/research/online-shopping-with-disabilities
This site has useful information about customizing browsers for easier navigation, web browser disability extensions add-ons, as well as software and hardware which can assist people with disabilities.
United Nations Division for Social Policy and Development Disability: https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/
Video Read Alouds for Kids in American Sign Language (ALS): www.indypl.org/blog/for-parents/read-alouds-for-kids-in-asl
Virtual Readability Lab: readabilitylab.xyz/
"We study how personalization can make your reading faster and more efficient."
The site lets individuals find the best and worst fonts for them.
Web Accessibility Initiative: http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Part of W3C: http://www.w3.org/
* They may not be able to see, hear, move, or understand easily.
* They may be in a situation where their eyes, ears, or hands are busy or interfered with; for example, working in a loud environment.
* They may have difficulty reading or comprehending text.
* They may not have or be able to use a keyboard or mouse.
* They may have an early version of a browser, a different browser entirely, a voice browser, or a different operating system.
* They may have a slow connection, a small screen, a text-only screen, etc.
* They may not speak or understand fluently the language in which the document is written.
100+ First ASL words: www.handspeak.com/word/most-used/
The 300 most commonly used signs in American Sign Language (SL)
A financial guide: Helping your child with a disability become a financially secure adult: www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/financial-guide-for-adult-children-with-disabilities/
A Guide to Supporting STEM Education for Students With Disabilities: alexandertutoring.com/supporting-stem-education-students-disabilities/
AFB (American Foundation for the Blind): http://www.afb.org/default.aspx
"Expanding Possibilities for People with vision loss"
ACCESS: YouTube: http://accessyoutube.org.uk/
A switch accessible YouTube site.
ASL Storytelling Online Library Stories: www.pinterest.com/aslstorytelling/asl-storytelling-online-library-stories/
"...a collection of ASL stories produced by the Educational Resource Center on Deafness (ERCOD) at the Texas School for the Deaf."
American Institutes for Research: http://www.air.org/
"AIR’s mission is to conduct and apply the best behavioral and social science research and evaluation towards improving peoples’ lives, with a special emphasis on the disadvantaged."
Assistive Technology: Free and Affordable Help for Everyone: www.couponchief.com/free_resources_assistive_technology
AT3 Center: at3center.net/
"The AT3 Center partners with the Disability Information and Access Line (DIAL) to help people with disabilities get connected to information about local community resources. Launched in 2021 to help people with disabilities access COVID-19 vaccinations, DIAL now provides information from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. ET, Monday–Friday about a variety of essential services such as assistive technology, transportation, housing support, disability rights, and more."
Call Scotland: www.callscotland.org.uk/
"CALL Scotland has been around since 1983 helping children and young people to overcome disability and barriers to learning, and to fulfil their potential"
CAST: http://www.cast.org/
Description and definition for Universal Design for Learning and much more.
College for Students with Disabilities: https://online.maryville.edu/disabilities-guide/
"A Guide for Students, Families and Educators" from Maryville University
The Complete Guide to Scholarships for Students with Disabilities: https://turbo.intuit.com/blog/relationships/scholarships-for-students-with-disabilities-3580/
Curb Cuts: 99percentinvisible.org/episode/curb-cuts/
The history of Curb Cuts, the importance of Ed Roberts in the movement to demand society see disabled people in a new way, and many other interesting facts in this podcast by 99% Invisible.
DO-IT: http://www.washington.edu/doit/
"Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology"
Graduate School success for Students with Disabilities: https://www.gograd.org/resources/students-with-disabilities/
Scholarships, support Resources, and Expert Insight for Achieving an Advanced Degree"
How to have your iPhone or iPad highlight text as it reads your screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GB-VntNWbY&feature=youtu.be
How to organize your child's IEP binder: www.understood.org/en/articles/how-to-organize-your-childs-iep-binder
Find out how to make an IEP binder with this step-by-step article, video, and downloads from Understood
Inclusive Design for Outdoor Spaces: www.greenschoolyards.org/inclusive-design
"Nature enhances Learning and Play for students of all abilities"
Inclusive Technology: http://www.inclusive.co.uk/
Indianapolis Public Library: Video Read Alouds for kids in American Sign Language: www.indypl.org/blog/for-parents/read-alouds-for-kids-in-asl
LDonline: http://www.ldonline.org/
"The educator's guide to learning disabilities and ADHD"
NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access): http://www.nvaccess.org/
"NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access) is a free “screen reader” which enables blind and vision impaired people to use computers. It reads the text on the screen in a computerised voice. You can control what is read to you by moving the cursor to the relevant area of text with a mouse or the arrows on your keyboard."
NVDA can also convert the text into braille if the computer user owns a device called a “braille display”.
Oh, The Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss - ASL version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO9JRRHdiS0
With available English subtitles
PPR: Koester Performance Research: http://www.kpronline.com/index.php
"Koester Performance Research works to enhance computer access for people with disabilities, particularly for people who are not well-served by the typical keyboard and mouse."
Quality Indicators for Assistive Technology: http://www.qiat.org/index.html
"Guiding the Provisions of Quality AT Services
The QIAT Community is a nationwide grassroots group that includes hundreds of individuals who provide input into the ongoing process of identifying, disseminating, and implementing a set of widely-applicable Quality Indicators for Assistive Technology Services in school settings that can be used as a tool to support:
- school districts as they strive to develop and provide quality assistive technology services aligned to federal, state and local mandates
- assistive technology service providers as they evaluate and constantly improve their services
- consumers of assistive technology services as they seek adequate assistive technology services which meet their needs
- universities and professional developers as they conduct research and deliver programs that promote the development of the competencies needed to provide quality assistive technology services
- policy makers as they attempt to develop judicious and equitable policies related to assistive technology services."
RESNA: http://www.resna.org/
Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America
SENICT Software: http://www.senictsoftware.com/index.html
"Accessible software and online teaching activities"
Sign Language Resource Online: http://www.handspeak.com/
Specialbites: http://www.specialbites.com/index.html
"On Specialbites you will find switch games to download and now tons of 'online switch games' which are also great on a touchscreen and for learning early mouse skills."
Special education: history, resource, advice: https://www.wgu.edu/blog/special-education-history-resources-advice2001.html
Western Governors University has curated a guide to some of the most popular resources for children and parents with disabilities. Additionally the guide takes a look at the history of Special Education in America. From Lyndon Johnson’s ESEA in 1966 to the ECSA of 2015 the guide examines what each piece of legislation materially did for those with disabilities as well as explaining what the bureaucratic bodies that enforce them do.
Symbolworld.org: http://symbolworld.org/
Teaching Math and Computer Science to Kids with Special Needs: www.bitira.com/crypto-stem-for-kids-with-special-needs/
Tips for Online Shopping With Disabilities: A Website Accessibility Guide: https://couponfollow.com/research/online-shopping-with-disabilities
This site has useful information about customizing browsers for easier navigation, web browser disability extensions add-ons, as well as software and hardware which can assist people with disabilities.
United Nations Division for Social Policy and Development Disability: https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/
Video Read Alouds for Kids in American Sign Language (ALS): www.indypl.org/blog/for-parents/read-alouds-for-kids-in-asl
Virtual Readability Lab: readabilitylab.xyz/
"We study how personalization can make your reading faster and more efficient."
The site lets individuals find the best and worst fonts for them.
Web Accessibility Initiative: http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Part of W3C: http://www.w3.org/