A Few of My Favorite Things Linky Party. My 3 Favorite Resources I am taking part in the "Few of My Favorite Things" linky sponsored by Teaching Trio. I am posting my 3 favorite resource websi...
Can You Listen to One More Word About Cortical Vision Impairment? Whether or not students have vision issues is a big consideration when you're trying to provide them with an alternative mode of communi...
What's the Number 1 Way to Improve Early Literacy and Language Skills? I just read an interesting article in the Las Vegas Review-Journal on-line that I found interesting only because it was so affirming for me....
Love Berries? How About a Berry Red t-Shirt? It's here! My free blogger t-shirt from the folks at A+Images. I posted yesterday that I would upload a better photo of the shirt when...
Life's a Picnic......and Check it Out! Who doesn't love a picnic? As long as I can avoid the ants, I'm there! Two topics today. One is the free picnic picture communicat...
Writing Centre Reading Workshop June 18th 12:00 to 1:00 We'll be using English 115 articles to develop reading skills for annotated bibliographies, literature reviews, and summaries.
OS X 10.11: Preview of New Chinese/Japanese Features From the info provided by Apple on June 8: Chinese: New system font. The new Chinese system font PingFang is designed for a modern appearanc...
June is Vision Health Month. Are You Looking at Your Student's Vision? June is Child Vision Awareness Month. Vision is a very important sense for all of us, but even more so for our AAC use...
What Kinds of Questions Can You Answer? I spend an awful lot of time and energy on Wh-Questions. I always have. Being able to answer Who, What, What doing, When, and Where questi...
Shared Reading Strategies Again - Did You See My Guest Post? This week I was a guest blogger at One Stop Teacher Shop , talking about one of my favorite subjects - Shared Reading to Build Language Skil...
A Few Words About a Few Good Words - 5 Reasons to Use Core Vocabulary AAC needs to be approached with the idea that the user does, indeed, have his own thoughts he wants to express – and that these thoughts are...
Is There More Than the Core? Beyond Single Words for AAC Users. Intervention in AAC needs to continue beyond basic core vocabulary building. As with all students who lag in language skills, such skills a...
Apple Watch: OS Update Adds 7 Languages Watch OS 1.0.1 released 5/19/15 adds support for Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, Swedish, Russian, Thai, Turkish. This brings the total...
What's So Different About AAC Intervention? 3 Things to know. There are a variety of schools of thought about how to begin to provide intervention and where to begin with AAC. Many believe that it is ...
Bug in Apple's Bangla Fonts A poster in the Apple Support Communities has pointed out that Apple's Bangla fonts (Bangla MN and Bangla Sangam MN) do not display the ...
Script and Font Support in Windows For those who run Windows on their Mac, this page which lists the script and font support provided by that OS may be useful. https://msdn.mi...
Literacy for All Students: Are You Teaching Your AAC Users to Read? “No student is too anything to be able to read and write” (David Yoder, ISAAC 2000) Just as language and cognition a...