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Author Archives: kazr
Tar Heel Reader
Tar Heel Reader offers free, easy-to-read, and accessible books. These books area created by teachers and students. You can download these files and use them as slide shows in PowerPoint. These books can be speech enabled with the following voices … Continue reading
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Digital Problem Solver (DPS) app
An Autistic child is an individual with unique needs. One example can be on how to cope with his or her feelings. The Social Express Inc. develops apps, which are designed to teach users how to think about and manage … Continue reading
Games for learning
Educators and parents recognized that some games help children develop in other areas, such as instilling motivation to learn, encouraging decision-making strategy, increasing creative design, improving strategy, promoting co-operation and teamwork, and fostering problem solving. In addition, they indicated that … Continue reading
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Dropbox vs. Evernote
While researching productivity apps, I have found many articles about Dropbox (https://www.dropbox.com/) and Evernote (http://evernote.com/), and many people seem to like both. These services are based in the cloud, and I think that both services are good productivity apps. If you … Continue reading
Reminder Apps
I attended a Webinar sponsored by RESNA the other day. In this webinar, Tony Gentry, PhD OTR/L presented how apps and strategies can be used with smart phones, PDAs, or tablet computers to help veterans with cognitive-behavioral challenge related Traumatic … Continue reading
Windows Phones
Windows Phones offer many ways for you to personalize your phone like iPhone and Android phones. It seems that over 130,000 apps including Live apps are available for Windows phones. You can access the built-in accessibility features called “Ease of … Continue reading
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Google Glass
What are Wearable computers? According to the Wikipedia, “Wearable computers, also known as body-borne computers are miniature electronic devices that are worn under, with or on top of clothing.” Adib Ghubril, a Research analyst and Director at Gartner’s Technology, noted … Continue reading
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All-terrain wheelchairs
Years ago, I lived in South Dakota in an undeveloped area where an all-terrain wheelchair may have served a real need. However, since I have been living in a metropolitan area for many years, I have never received questions about all-terrain … Continue reading
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Keyboard case for iPhone
Many people use iPhone have become accustomed to a phone with a keypad but still miss the tactile feeling of pressing actual keys. Some manufacturers already have released an Apple iPhone 5 Bluetooth Keyboard in a case that slides out … Continue reading
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Switch Mouse by Humanscale
Switch Mouse from Humanscale has been on the market for a while. This mouse has a V-shaped base, which allows the wrist and forearm to be in a natural position, and most users found that this mouse is amazingly comfortable. … Continue reading
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