Feb/March 2019 Closing The Gap Resource Directory

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Bridge to Grade-Level Literature. Board- maker Book Bridge is a curriculum to help students with special educational needs meet modern academic standards for reading, writing and vocabulary develop- ment. Included FREE with Boardmaker Online Subscription. Boardmaker Core First Learning Tobii Dynavox Price: $0 Special Skill: communication, language development Disability: cognitive, learning, speech Boardmaker Core First Learning is a FREE web-based program delivered through Boardmaker Online that helps your students learn the meaning, use, and placement of high frequency core words on their AAC system.The instructional sequence includes a series of reading, writ- ing, and language activities that comple- ment each other. Requires a Boardmaker Online subscription. Boardmaker Expedition Education Tobii Dynavox Price: $229 Special Skill: scanning, single switch, multi switch, speech output Academic Skill: geography, pre-reading, reading, social studies Disability: cognitive, hearing, learning, physical, speech Skill Level: elementary Operating System: Windows, Mac Boardmaker Expedition Education pro- vides a rigorous academic curriculum de- signed to transform students with special needs into readers, writers and thinkers. Build their knowledge of history, geogra- phy, STEM, and culture. Included FREE with Boardmaker Online Subscription.

recognition Academic Skill: reading, spelling Disability: cognitive, hearing, learning, speech Skill Level: infant/toddler, preschool, elementary, secondary, adult Operating System: Windows, Mac, Android, Chrome Ava’s mission is to provide 24/7 acces- sibility to conversations between deaf/ hard-of-hearing and hearing people. Ava is a mobile app that everyone (coworkers, family members, friends) download on their smartphone. Ava connects them all and transcribes in real time who says what. Business meetings, family dinners, lunch, restaurants, now accessible. Avatalker AAC Aurora Symbols, LLC Price: $189 Special Skill: communication, early childhood, language development, speech output Academic Skill: graphic arts, language arts, pre-reading, problem solving, reading Disability: speech Skill Level: preschool, elementary, secondary, adult Two stage iPad app for communicating for nonverbal children to adults. Avatalker AAC is a robust, full-featured augmentative and alternative communication solution. New to the industry, its interface has been designed to overcome some of the mistakes made by the current apps on the market. Proprietary symbol set. Baby Jigsaw - Assemble 3 pieces of a picture STEP BY STEP Price: $0 - $2.99 Special Skill: cognitive redevelopment, early childhood, eye-hand coordination, adapted keyboard/switch access, single switch, multi switch, diagnostic Academic Skill: problem solving Disability: cognitive, learning, physical Skill Level: infant/toddler Children learn piece together a well known picture of a toy. App helps develop spatial cognition skills, visual perception skills, and fine motor skills.

three through five. Can also be used by older students.

Attention Getter Marblesoft-SoftTouch Price: $80

Behavior Tracker Pro Data Makes the Difference, LLC Price: $29.99 Special Skill: basic living skills, early childhood, , diagnostic Disability: cognitive Skill Level: infant/toddler, preschool, elementary, secondary, adult Operating System: Mac Behavior Tracker Pro is a behavior data collection application for PDAs that al- lows BCBA’s, behavioral therapists, aides, teachers or parents to track behaviors and graph them. Behavior Tracker Pro improves your child’s ABA therapy by electronically capturing behavioral data and translating it into an easy to understand graphical format. Biggy RJ Cooper and Associates Price: $59 Special Skill: eye-hand coordination, large print Disability: cognitive, vision Skill Level: preschool, elementary, secondary, adult Operating System: Windows Very large cursors for the Macintosh and Windows.Windows version also contains numerous other cursor enhancement op- tions. All Windows and Mac OS supported.

Special Skill: cognitive redevelopment, communication, early childhood, language development, adapted keyboard/switch access, single switch, multi switch Academic Skill: language arts Disability: cognitive, learning, physical Skill Level: infant/toddler, preschool,

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elementary, secondary, adult Operating System: Windows

Attention Getter gets the attention of stu- dents with the most significant disabilities. It morphs pictures that go together like a king to a lion king or a young girl to an older woman. As the images morph, the anticipation builds. Each photo sequence is accompanied by interesting and lively music.

Attention Teens Marblesoft-SoftTouch Price: $80

Special Skill: cognitive redevelopment, communication, early childhood, language development, adapted keyboard/switch access, single switch, multi switch Academic Skill: language arts Disability: cognitive, learning, physical Skill Level: infant/toddler, preschool,

elementary, secondary, adult Operating System: Windows

Attention Teens is for the student learning to attend and stay interested.The whimsi- cal photos morph to another photo and then to a third photo right before your eyes. It is paired with interesting sounds and music. It has two switch option and is compatible with IntelliKeys. Audio Notetaker Sonocent Price: $99 - $279 Special Skill: communication, language development Academic Skill: geography, graphic arts, health, language arts, math, music, science, social studies Disability: learning, physical Skill Level: secondary, adult Operating System: Windows, Mac, Android Sonocent Audio Notetaker software enables students with learning disabilities to create their own notes. Instead of writing notes, students record classes and highlight key parts with color. Sonocent Audio Notetaker combines color, audio, text, images and presentation slides all into a single workspace. Available for iOS, Android, PC and Mac.

Boardmaker Tobii Dynavox Price: $399

Special Skill: basic living skills, cognitive redevelopment, communication, early childhood, language development, large print, scanning, single switch, authoring system Academic Skill: geography, health, language arts, math, music, pre-reading, problem solving, reading, science, social studies, spelling Disability: cognitive, learning, physical, speech Skill Level: infant/toddler, preschool,

Boardmaker Online Tobii Dynavox Price: $90 - $199

elementary, secondary, adult Operating System: Windows

Special Skill: basic living skills, cognitive redevelopment, communication, early childhood, eye-hand coordination, language development, vocational, scanning, single switch, multi switch, speech output, authoring system, instructional management Academic Skill: geography, health, language arts, math, pre-reading, problem solving, reading, science, social studies, spelling Disability: cognitive, hearing, learning, physical, speech, vision Skill Level: infant/toddler, preschool, elementary, secondary Operating System: Windows, Mac, Android, Chrome Building on the strong legacy of our tradi- tional Boardmaker software, Boardmaker Online provides a multi-level approach to creating engaging print and interactive materials for your special education needs. Start with convenient, ready-made print

Boardmaker lets you design valuable printed materials, like communication boards, sequences, schedules and more, with Picture Communication Symbols (PCS ). Choose the topics, symbols, labels, colors, borders, languages and more to help your students reach classroom goals. Boardmaker Book Bridge Tobii Dynavox Price: $0 Special Skill: scanning, single switch, multi switch, speech output, voice recognition Academic Skill: pre-reading, reading Disability: cognitive, hearing, learning, physical, speech Skill Level: elementary Operating System: Windows, Mac

Basic Skills Pack Merit Software Price: $335

Special Skill: basic living skills, cognitive redevelopment, communication, language development Academic Skill: language arts, math, problem solving, reading Disability: cognitive, learning, speech Skill Level: elementary, secondary, adult Operating System: Windows A collection of Merit titles covering core competencies in reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary and math.The software is self- paced and self-correcting. A convenient record management system tracks scores and allows teachers to view detailed reports. Designed for students in grades

Ava (www.ava.me) Ava Price: $0

Special Skill: cognitive redevelopment, communication, language development, speech output, telecommunications, voice

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