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Realising Potential through Enabling Technologies in the 21st Century
As part of Dyslexia Awareness Week, Abi James presented a BDA Webinar on Realising Potential through Enabling Technologies. In this session Abi introduced some of the common technologies used in schools and the workplace and discuss the latest research into the … Continue reading
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Technology At Your Fingertips
Making use of technology can make a huge difference to anyone who has difficulty with reading and writing. In the past; many of these helpful tools have only been available with the purchase of additional, specific software. In contrast; all … Continue reading
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Five tips and hints for schools to support Dyslexic learners
Want advice on how to start supporting your learners with technology? Here are five tips from BDA New Technologies member Victoria Crivelli for Dyslexia Awareness Week: 1. Find out what technology is available and working in the school or classrooms … Continue reading
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Enabling Technologies (Part 4). Google Docs and Chrome Extensions supporting Study Skills.
This article is 4th and final part of our series on built-in enabling tools, looking at a range of tools available through the Chrome browser. If you type ‘Chrome Extensions for Dyslexia’ into Google you will be amazed how many … Continue reading
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Enabling Technologies (Part 3). Windows 10 and Microsoft Office latest developments
In the last two articles we have looked at tools that are built into iPads and Macs that can help with reading, writing and overcoming common issues associated with dyslexia. In this article, we will focus on the features now … Continue reading
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Enabling Technologies (Part 2): Mac OS
Continuing our series of articles exploring some of the useful features available on the devices we own, Robert McLaren from Diversity and Ability (https://www.dnamatters.co.uk) draws our attention to some of those offered on a Mac. The images and location of … Continue reading
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Enabling Technologies (Part 1). Tools built into iPhones and iPads
Introduction to Enabling Technologies on the iPad. In recent years, the range of accessibility features now found within the basic operating systems of the latest computers and mobile devices have become more extensive. Some now offer a range of options that … Continue reading
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Articles from Contact Magazine
Enabling Technologies- Part 1 Introduction In recent years, the range of accessibility features now found within the basic operating systems of the latest computers and mobile devices have become more extensive. Some now offer a range of options that were … Continue reading
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Jisc on exams
The Joint Information Systems Committee, (see Wikipedia description of Jisc) has issued guidelines for digital examinations, like the Scottish ones posted recently. B.D.A. NTC contributed to these guidelines. They encourage schools to take advantage of digital exam formats for print-impaired … Continue reading
Talking in exams
CALL Scotland announced a project about Talking in Exams, i.e. writing by Speech Recognition with particular reference to Dragon Naturally Speaking and ReadQ SpeakQ. This is particularly relevant for English examinations when scribes cannot be used, but Speech Recognition can. … Continue reading
Literacy Toolbox
We have added Eddie Carron’s free Perceptual Learning software, Literacy Toolbox, to the Study Skills page. Structured synthetic phonics teaching is essential. After that, masses of reading experience is vital. The Literacy Toolbox provides hundreds of short texts, with comprehension … Continue reading
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MPs and Peers
Google Alerts flags a presentation, for MPs and Peers, by AbilityNet and others, including Abi James and Neil Cottrell of B.D.A. New Technologies Committee, today 20 January 2015. Digital access by and for disabled people: technology showcase for MPs and … Continue reading
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A.T. webinar
Abi James, NTC Chair, presented a B.D.A. webinar on Assistive Technology in Examinations. Here are PDF and Powerpoint versions of her presentation. It is good that schools are increasing their use of Computer Readers and Exam pens in Examinations. © … Continue reading
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Updated pages
updated pages Cheryl Dobbs has done a major revision of our Apps page for all facilities that support dyslexia. She has added some, deleted a few, and revised the description and comments on most of the items. There is now … Continue reading
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A.T. Case study
A blog was posted on 10 April 2014, about a senior Microsoft Assistive Technology staff member. He helped two dyslexic workers, but he learned about the software for his own benefit, as well as showing it to them. One worker … Continue reading
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‘Monster’ for literacy
‘Teach your monster to read’ is an excellent on-line, free, early literacy games program for Windows and Mac, with an app coming soon. It is sponsored by the Usborne Foundation. Children will learn to read letter-sounds and some letter-groups, relevant … Continue reading
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NTC presentations
Members of the B.D.A. NTC were involved in a range of presentations at the 9th B.D.A. International Conference, 27 to 29 March 2014. This page provides summaries of each talk and links to open or download their slides. © B.D.A. … Continue reading
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Free workshops
Publishers and suppliers provide a lot of training and support. They have open days and workshops for prospective customers and for users of their products. They also have videos and guideline documents online. Some of them are listed on our … Continue reading
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JPE review
Two pupils in the B.D.A. Children Will Shine project in Peterborough are making good use of a Jolly Phonics Extra kit with a Talking Pen. The specialist teacher in charge, Jacqueline Swift, reports their enjoyment. More comments come from a … Continue reading
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Apps wheel
CALL Scotland has produced a ‘wheel’ of apps for dyslexia learners and users who have reading and writing difficulties, as an A3 poster. You can see or down-load the poster as a PDF file. Note that all the app titles … Continue reading
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