Special+Education+Resources

__ Special Needs Links __
http://www.ataccess.org/resources/nochild.html This article describes the relationship between the No Child Left Behind Act and the provision for assistive technology for students with special needs.
 * No Child Left Behind: Implications for Assistive Technology**

http://www.cast.org/policy/ncac/index.html In a collaborative agreement with the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Programs, CAST established the National Center on Accessing the General Curriculum (NCAC) to provide a vision of how new curricula, teaching practices, and policies can be woven together to create practical approaches for improved access to the general curriculum by students with disabilities.
 * Center for Accessing the General Education Curriculum**

http://www.wizcomtech.com WizCom Technologies, Ltd., develops personal, portable scanning pens that help people read and use text.
 * WizCom Quicktionary Reading Pen**

http://www.donjohnston.com Don Johnston Incorporated delivers life changing interventions to struggling students
 * Don Johnston's Co:Writer and Write:OutLoud**

http://www.dragontalk.com Dragon NaturallySpeaking allows for fast, continuous, large vocabulary speech while still allowing for control in the Windows operating system.
 * DragonTalk's Dragon Naturally Speaking**

[] Freedom Scientific develops, manufactures, and markets technology-based products and services that those with vision impairments and learning disabilities use to change their world.
 * Freedom Scientific's WYNN**

http://www.ablenetinc.com AbleNet designs practical products and solutions for teaching children with disabilities. 4
 * AbleNet**

http://www.attainmentcompany.com Attainment Company produces materials for special needs.
 * Attainment Company**

<span style="color: #7682cc; font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">http://www.adaptivation.com <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">Adaptivation provides assistive technology products and services to individuals with severe and multiple disabilities.
 * Adaptivation**

<span style="color: #7682cc; font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">http://www.enablingdevices.com <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">Enabling Devices provides affordable assistive and learning devices for the physically challenged.
 * Enabling Devices**

<span style="color: #7682cc; font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">http://www.intellitools.com/ <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">IntelliTools provides learning solutions for the diverse classroom.
 * Intellitools**

<span style="color: #7682cc; font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">http://www.orcca.com <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">ORCCA Technology provides a variety of assistive technology products.
 * ORCCA Technology**

<span style="color: #7682cc; font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">http://www.aagi.com <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">ALVA Access Group provides high-tech solutions that enable blind and visually-impaired people to use computers and communication systems.
 * Alva Access Group**

<span style="color: #7682cc; font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">http://www.dolphinusa.com <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">Dolphin Computer Access creates software products that allow visually impaired people to use mainstream information technology in its original form.
 * Dolphin Computer Access**

<span style="color: #7682cc; font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">http://www.telesensory.com <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">Telesensory helps visually impaired and blind people achieve greater independence through innovative, technology-based products.
 * TeleSensory**

<span style="color: #7682cc; font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">http://www.audioenhancement.com <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">Audio Enhancement creates audio enhanced classrooms by equipping them with amplification systems.
 * AudioEnhancement**

<span style="color: #7682cc; font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">http://www.brainpop.com <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">BrainPOP produces educational animated movies for grades K-12 to explain concepts in a voice and visual style that is accessible and entertaining. <span style="font-family: Arial,Arial;">5
 * BrainPop**

<span style="color: #7682cc; font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">http://www.tomsnyder.com <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">Tom Snyder Productions, a Scholastic company, is a developer and publisher of educational software for K-12 classrooms.
 * Tom Snyder**

<span style="color: #7682cc; font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">http://www.tip.duke.edu <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">The Duke University Talent Identification Program (Duke TIP) identifies gifted children and provides resources to nurture the development of these exceptionally bright youngsters.
 * Duke TIP program**

<span style="color: #7682cc; font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">http://www.hoagiesgifted.org <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">Hoagies' Gifted Education Page offers resources and links for parents, for educators, counselors, administrators and other professionals, and for kids and teens.
 * Hoagie's Gifted Education page**

<span style="color: #7682cc; font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">http://poster.4teachers.org <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">Project Poster is for students who wish to publish projects or reports on the public internet.
 * Project Poster**

<span style="color: #7682cc; font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">http://www.abledata.com/abledata_docs/Children_Wheelchair.htm <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">This page is a fact sheet on wheelchairs for children.
 * Standing wheelchair**

<span style="color: #7682cc; font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/software_jaws.asp <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">The JAWS screen reader works with a PC to provide access to today's software applications and the Internet.
 * Jaws Screen Reader**

<span style="color: #7682cc; font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">http://www.iping.com <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">iPing has tools used to keep track of the daily events of life. Many people use iPing as a backup to their alarm clock for more reliability.
 * iPing**

<span style="color: #7682cc; font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">http://www.readplease.com <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">ReadPlease is the developer of text-to-speech software for Windows based operating systems.
 * ReadPlease**

<span style="color: #7682cc; font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">http://www.windows.ucar.edu <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">Windows to the Universe is a learning system covering the Earth and Space sciences for use by the general public.
 * Windows to the Universe**

<span style="color: #7682cc; font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">http://www.wordq.com <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">WordQ software is a special education writing tool used along with standard Windows word <span style="font-family: Arial,Arial;">6 processing software to provide spelling, English grammar (and French grammar), and reading assistance.
 * WordQ**

<span style="color: #7682cc; font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">http://www.idictate.com <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">iDictate is a blend of technology and human interaction that enables users to dictate any document using a telephone, fax machine, or dictation device, and then receive the completed job back for editing via e-mail.
 * iDictate**

<span style="color: #7682cc; font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">http://www.webmath.com <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">WebMath provides web-based tools to help students with math problems. Tools include instant-answer, self-help, math solvers, more than 1,200 completely solved math problems, and access to a math expert.
 * WebMath**

<span style="color: #7682cc; font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/vlibrary.html <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">The library is a collection of interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction (K-12 emphasis).
 * Virtual Math Manipulatives**

<span style="color: #7682cc; font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">http://crayon.net <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">CRAYON is a tool for managing news sources on the Internet and the World Wide Web.
 * Crayon**

<span style="color: #7682cc; font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">http://my.yahoo.com <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">My Yahoo is a custom portal to news, search tools, and other information from the web.
 * My Yahoo**

<span style="color: #7682cc; font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/index.jsp <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">TrackStar is a starting point for online lessons and activities. Teachers use the site to collect Web sites, enter them into TrackStar, add annotations for students, and then have an interactive, online lesson called a Track.
 * TrackStar**

<span style="color: #7682cc; font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">http://www.closingthegap.com/ <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">Closing The Gap, Inc. is an organization that focuses on computer technology for people with special needs through its bi-monthly newspaper, annual international conference, and extensive web site.
 * Closing the Gap**

<span style="color: #7682cc; font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">http://atto.buffalo.edu <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;">The Assistive Technology Training Online Project (ATTO) provides information on AT applications that help students with disabilities learn in elementary classrooms.
 * Assistive Technology Training Online**