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View ArticleRemarkable Ideas
When you’re in the classroom with a room full of diverse students it often presents a challenge to include all students into various activities. You might have a student with hearing impairment,...
View ArticleTarheel Reader makeover and new beaut features
We’ve blogged in the past about what a fantastic resource Tar Heel Reader is and how you can use this free collection of easy-to-read and accessible books for kids of all different abilities in the...
View ArticleSENICT News and Resources from Ian Bean, February 2013
More games coming… So pleased to see that you are finding our free switch games useful. In the last month our online games have been played tens of thousands of times in schools and in children’s...
View ArticleSENICT News and Resources from Ian Bean, March 2013
More Free Cause and Effect Activities This month, we’ve added more, free to download cause and effect activities for your early switch or touch-screen users. Choose from Formula One Racing, Trains,...
View ArticleMultimodal Communication in Early Intervention
Multimodal Communication in Early Intervention: Successfully using Signing, Symbols and Apps to help children become better communicators On the weekend I had the pleasure of presenting to a group of...
View ArticleSENICT News and Resources from Ian Bean, April 2013
A fantastic offer from Flo Longhorn Flo Longhorn, world respected trainer and advocate for sensory education is launching her new online magazine ‘Info Exchange‘ in April. The magazine is packed...
View ArticleTexthelp Toolmatcher: Getting the most out of Read&Write GOLD
For those of you out there utilising all of the many great features of Texthelp Read&Write GOLD you will already know there is something for just about everyone! But I’m sure there are many people...
View ArticleSupport literacy skills for early primary students with Clicker 6 on laptops,...
Your young students are engaged and motivated by learning on mobile technologies like iPads and laptops. How can you tap into this motivation to support, scaffold and advance their reading and writing...
View ArticleReview of Ghotit – Real Writer and Reader V2.6
Ghotit Real Writer and Reader is a standalone software program, available for MS Windows and MAC OS computers. Users can work with Ghotit RR&W with a preferred word processor or use it with any...
View ArticleSoundfield Systems in Schools
Students must be able to hear the educator’s voice clearly in class, in any environment whether it is in a classroom, laboratory, and library/study/work area or science room. This is not always...
View ArticleSENICT News and Resources from Ian Bean, September 2013
NZ Workshop tour dates and venues In September, I’m off on a three week workshop tour of New Zealand delivering eight workshops and school consultancies around the country culminating in a keynote...
View ArticleHot topic: Workflows
Our consultancy team are all talking about “Workflows”…. ie… the sequence of steps you use to complete a task. In our world, we are talking about what apps and technologies can combine to complete...
View ArticleEasy English for Health: Better Outcomes for All
For health consumers with low English literacy it is essential to provide health information in a way that is easy to understand. In health care settings, communication breakdowns between patient &...
View ArticleFree Text to Speech for Google Docs
Reposted with permission from blog.texthelp.com Read&Write for Google™ is a Chrome extension that works on Macs, PCs and Chromebooks using the Google Chrome web browser. The extension can be...
View ArticleFree Dyslexia Font
Reposted with permission from blog.texthelp.com Last week a colleague asked me if there was a way to access the OpenDyslexic dyslexia font that is included in the iReadWrite iPad App in other programs...
View ArticleiPads in Special Education
This blog post includes information from the hands-on training day, provided to teachers and educators from a cluster of schools in NSW on December 19th, 2013. It includes important references and...
View ArticleWord Prediction for Google Docs
Reposted with permission from blog.texthelp.com Over the last couple of weeks I have added blog posts on some recent word prediction research and a short Q&A session with a co-author of that...
View Article629 More Free Fonts
Reposted with permission from blog.texthelp.com I recently posted about a Free Dyslexia Font that many readers found useful. While the font that I referenced may be beneficial to a number of...
View ArticleGoogle Story Builder
Reposted with permission from blog.texthelp.com I recently stumbled upon Google Story Builder and found it to be a great way to engage students in writing, which I find is half the battle in classrooms...
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