Cool Websites! - PharmaD

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US Pharm D  is a website created my licensed pharmacists to help future pharmacists and the public become more educated about healthy living. This link directs you to a page dedicated to IPHONE apps that assist a person in regulating their health. People with disabilities can benefit from such apps because they help a person to regulate medications, set fitness goals and track progress. These apps also promote healthy eating and exercise, which can improve a person’s quality of life. 

Cool Websites! - Apple Apps

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This website is a link from apple.com. This page describes how a person can use his/her IPHONE to reach 911 quickly in an emergency. For a person with limited communication, this tool is an efficient way to signal for help. 

Cool Websites! - Stoloff's Blog

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Mathew Stoloff is a civil rights attorney with interest in discrimination law and special education law. He uses his blog to change the way the public thinks about people with disabilities. His blog offers insight into the legal system and is a place for people to share their thoughts and opinions about current disabilities issues.

Stoloff’s blog has an Assistive Technology section that features current articles. This specific link is for an article on the IPHONE and its assistive capability.

Cool Websites! - Assistware

http://assistiveware.com/podcasts.php#frontiers

AssitiveWare Podcasts and Videos offers a variety of examples of how real people with disabilities use apple products to improve their quality of life. Each person has a written story as well as video. 

Cool Websites! - Abilitynet

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AbilityNet G.A.T.E.  features the IPHONE’s use as assistive technology. AbilityNet describes the IPHONE as having many features that make iPHONE easy to use for everyone, as well as having accessibility features available that are designed to make it easier for users with visual, auditory, or other physical disabilities to use. 

AbilityNet describes how specifically the IPHONE can be used for people who have visual impairments, hearing impairments, autism, learning disabilities, memory disabilities and physical disabilities.  It offers videos on each feature. 

Cool Websites! - AtMac

http://www.atmac.org/

ATMac covers all Apple products with a slant towards disability. They have an interest in users with a disability, adaptive and assistive technology, and making accessible programs and content.

AtMac is a one-stop shop for using apple products as assistive technology. This website has featured products, a newsletter, tutorials, real life experiences, and is easy to navigate. 

The IPad and Universal Design

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How easy do you think it is to engage all students of all different abilities?  What about with an iPad?

It's as easy as 1, 2, 3...

VoCal App

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Sometimes we forget that assistive technology can be used to help students with high-incidence disabilities, too.  What about the millions with ADD? Or, perhaps a student who is learning to function independently and need reminders on what time to catch the bus?.. take their medication?... call home?

The VoCal app is a cool - and affordable - app that can be programmed to give you quick daily reminders on your phone using your own prerecorded voice.  It's intuitive and sleek.  Another example of universal design right on the iPod.  Check it out

Proloquo2Go

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This video follows Proloquo2Go™, a new application from AssistiveWare for use on an iPhone and iPod touch. It is cost-effective and provides a communication solution for people who have difficulty speaking or by those with many cognitive, developmental or acquired disabilities, including autism, cerebral palsy or traumatic brain injuries. Educators, parents or service providers can easily program and customize the natural sounding text-to-speech voices, symbols, automatic conjugations and default vocabulary.

New AT Apps!

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This video describes 5 different applications for use on an iPod touch or iPhone.  These assistive applications provide opportunities for those with limited hand mobility or even lacking fine motor skills, allowing the users to become more productive and independent.  

Expressionist by AdastraSoft

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This video demonstrates an application for use on an iPhone or iPodTouch, called Expressionist, made by AdastraSoft.  It is particularly suited for those who are visual learners, such as those with autism individuals or anybody with learning/language disabilities. That company's website is www.adastrasoft.com

iPrompts by HandHold Adaptive

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This video shows an application for use on an iPhone or iPodTouch, called iPrompts. The program enables users with language and behavioral challenges to transition from one event to the next, follow a schedule and have the ability to make choices. Caregivers or educators can easily program the iPod to facilitate enhanced productivity and independence for the user via picture schedules, countdown timers and choice prompts.

Parisa's Independent Project

I chose to more critically examine the Chapterhouse Coffee Shop in Bella Vista because it is a place that I patronize very frequently and one often recommend to others. It is located in a mixed residential and retail area, across from a park, along Ninth Street, at the end of the Italian Market area. There is only off street, public parking available. The two-story coffee shop is sandwiched between two other establishments and all three stores are situated in buildings built in the early 1900s, in row-house fashion.