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.

Marc's Independent Project

The location that I chose for my individual project was a small coffeehouse named The Last Drop located on 1300 Pine Street in Philadelphia. The coffeehouse is a medium-sized establishment, roughly 35 x 75 feet. It has a ground level floor and a small lower floor. The top level seats about 25 people upstairs and about 10 downstairs. The Last Drop considers itself a old-fashioned coffeehouse that caters to the artist establishment prevalent in its section of Center City, Philadelphia. The reason I chose to highlight the restaurant is because I find their values and practices to be contradictory of the true artist liberal spirit it forcefully proclaims. This spirit should guarantee equal access to everyone.