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Assistive Technologies: Principles and Practice
Description: The new edition of this popular text presents a model of a disabled human operator using various assistive technologies. Also included: an overview and historical perspective of the field; special disabilities and the use of assistive technologies; how to derive and measure standards of performance; proper positioning when using assistive devices; and more. New to this edition -- a comprehensive glossary; new appendices, including a list of resources and a list of product manufacturers; additional case studies; new illustrations and photographs; and more.
Value: $29.00	Vendor: Amazon.com
Beginning Thesaurus
Description: Help your younger students find just the right word to use in their writing.
Value: $6.95	Vendor: Curriculum Associates
Book of Possibilities - Elem. & Secondary
Description: Practical affordable ideas for educators working with students with severe disabilities.  Now you can provide a range of curriculum-focused activities for your students to be successfully included with their peers. A “must have” resource for all educators. Affordable easy-to-implement inclusion strategies.
Value: $49.00	Vendor: This product is no longer available for purchase.
Brain Based Learning & AT
Description: Describes research findings that focus on how your students learn and how you can change the learning environments in your classroom to best meet their needs and strengths. Explore low to high tech tools that you can use to create specialized lessons or that your students can use in learning - all of which are supported by research based on how our brain learns, recalls, and applies. A variety of topics are covered including the use of color, lighting, sound and music, smells, using digital images and graphics, memory aids, then tie it to specific technology tools and strategies you and/or your students can use to make this kind of learning part of your classroom.
Value: $30.00	Vendor: Onion Mountain Technology
Capital Letter Stories
Description: Features stories themed with letter groupings to help children learn each letter in a fun way. The tablet is arranged in developmental progression to keep the child engaged.
Value: $5.39	Vendor: Amazon.com
Children's Writer's Word Book
Description: This title's unique design ensures that writers speak to their audience with a vocabulary and style they both understand and find appealing. A fast-reference guide meant to be used along with a dictionary, thesaurus and yellow pad of paper, it will help fulfill the dream of becoming a published children's writer.
Value: $11.55	Vendor: Amazon.com
Computer Resources for People with Disabilities: A Guide to Assistive Technologies, Tools and Resources for People of All Ages
Description: It lists what's available and how best to use it; provides names of organizations, vendors, and online resources; and tells the stories of real people of all ages who are using technology successfully.
Value: $19.46	Vendor: Amazon.com
Computerized Paper & Pencil Tasks
Description: There are a number of software programs that can be used to computerize paper and pencil tasks like tests, quizzes, lab reports, study guides, but there is not one program that has all the features a student might need.  This book explores different software programs and the features of each.
Value: $20.00	Vendor: Onion Mountain Technology
Do A Dot Art Discovery My World "Activity Book"
Description: Discovering My World: In this delightful collection discover fish, frogs, cats, dogs, dinosaurs, teddy bears, and clowns. 24 Pages. Ages 3 and up By Do A Dot Art
Value: $5.00	Vendor: Onion Mountain Technology
Edl Core Vocabularies
Description: This is a collection of word lists, alphabetically arranged. It's sources are the textbooks used in grades pre-primary through grade 13. The words are listed by grade level, and then combined in a cumulative list. In the cumulative list, the year in which each word was introduced is given next to the word. Also included are mathematics, science and social studies word lists for grades 1 through 6, as well as a aural comprehension list for adults with low reading skills. No thesaurus is included. This book is most valuable to anyone writing for a target audience of grade school children. It answers the question,"Can I expect a reader in this particular grade to comprehend this particular word?
Value: $9.50	Vendor: Amazon.com
Graphic Organizer Blackline Master
Description: Graphic Organizers are visual representations of a text or a topic. The organizers provide templates or frames for students or teachers to identify pertinent facts, to organize information, and to record relationships between facts and ideas. Suggested instructional ideas are included for each graphic organizer.
Value: $24.95	Vendor: Mentoring Minds
Handbook for Beginning Writers
Description: Give beginning writers the basic 330 words they need to begin writing sentences. Each word is introduced by showing it in context of a sentence and also provides all word forms. Space is provided for students to include their own words. The handbook also includes:       Weather words      School-related words      Colors, Animals, and Foods      Days, months, and number words
Value: $6.95	Vendor: Curriculum Associates
Handbook for Everyday Writers
Description: Give students the tools they need to become better writers. Each handbook contains more than 1,200 frequently used words and includes space for students to write in their own words. The handbook also includes:      Homophone guide and sentences      Days, months, and number words      Common abbreviations
Value: $6.95	Vendor: Curriculum Associates
Handbook for Everyday Math
Description: QUICK-MATH Handbooks are available in two levels. (Grades 3–5)  Common math concepts covered are:      Place value      Area and volumes      Estimating      Averages      Coordinates      Algebra (Grades 6–8)  Math concepts covered are:      Exponents      Box and whisker plots       Ratios      Mean, median, mode      Square roots      Flips, turns, slides
Value: $6.95	Vendor: Curriculum Associates
Handhelds for Teachers & Administrators
Description: This book covers iPods, Podcasting, and handhelds that use the Palm OS 4, Palm OS 5, and Pocket PC operating systems.
Value: $35.00	Vendor: Tom Snyder
Hello Toes!  Hello Feet! Guided Reading Kit
Description: One month's worth of related activities for students with disabilities in each kit! For both included or self-contained classrooms. Based on popular children's books.
Value: $38.00	Vendor: Infogrip
I Can Cook Too
Description: Reflecting colors! Activate your capability switch and watch the vibrating fiber optic strings swirl magically and reflect changing colors of red, green, blue, green, and purple. A wonderful sensory experience.
Value: $14.00	Vendor: Mayer-Johnson
If You Give a Pig a Pancake Guided Reading Kit
Description: One month's worth of related activities for students with disabilities in each kit! For both included or self-contained classrooms. Based on popular children's books.
Value: $11.55 (book only)	Vendor: Amazon.com
Intervention Strategies Guide
Description: A tool to help educators provide research-based academic and behavioral intervention strategies to identified students. Numerous strategies are suggested that target specific skills a student has not acquired in the following areas: Reading (Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Vocabulary, Fluency, Comprehension), Writing, Mathematics (Calculation and Reasoning), and Behavior. The guide also includes instructional strategies that match the learning preferences of students and reflect sound research.
Value: $12.95	Vendor: Mentoring Minds
Job Ads and Career Paths with CD
Description: Students use JobWeb to get valuable vocational information by exploring 30 simulated websites. Students search for job vocabulary, investigate company background, submit interest in a job via email and print job applications. The Jobs Ads & Career Paths book focuses on the application process for jobs commonly found in your community. Includes 150 student worksheets that can be photocopied or printed from PDF. Worksheets cover job comparisons, interest matching and "finding the details."
Value: $99.00	Vendor: Attainment
Learn to Letter Tablet with Raised Ruling
Description: The See and Feel Learn to Letter with Raised Ruling reinforces writing within the lines. The embossed raised ruling helps students feel the lines.
Value: $2.49	Vendor: Amazon.com
Lowercase Letter Stories
Description: Features sky-grass-dirt paper which facilitates proper alignment on primary paper. Letters are grouped based on like motor patterns line placement and similar pre-writing components. Stores are themed per letter grouping and each letter features fun verb
Value: $20.00	Vendor: Amazon.com
Making Connections
Description: With dozens of practical applications for voice output communication, Making Connections is a must-have idea book for assistive technology trainers, speech language pathologists and educators. This step-by-step guide includes strategies for introducing voice output communication to students of all abilities, ideas for effective messages, simplified data collection and more. Research-based and approved by leaders in the field. Soft cover, spiral bound, 110 pages.
Value: $75.00	Vendor: Independent Living Source
Master Instructional Strategies Flip Chart
Description: The Master Instructional Strategies Flip Chart is an easy-to-use resource that offers hundreds of instructional strategies from the major instructional schools of thought.
Value: $18.95	Vendor: Mentoring Minds
Math Exercises for Non-readers
Description: a book that approaches the subject of maths in a fun and creative way, using Picture Communication Symbols to help non-readers in grades K-12 feel more comfortable with mathematics and the contexts in which maths concepts are used. It is a series of learning activities, worksheets, and teaching suggestions.
Value: $29.95	Vendor: PCI Education
Math and Technology
Description: Learn how to bring the language and world of math to your students through a full continuum of technology tools. This book is designed to help teachers match assistive and educational technologies to national math standards and to use brain-based teaching strategies to make sure that the lessons "stick." A variety of low-tech tools for measurement, color, problem alignment, highlighting, use of rubber stamps, markerboards, magnifiers, and more will be explored. A comparison of features in calculator categories including talking, giant, conversion, subject specific and money calculators are discussed.
Value: $20.00	Vendor: Onion Mountain Technology
Modifying Texts with Technology
Description: Learn how to bring the language and world of math to your students through a full continuum of technology tools. This book is designed to help teachers match assistive and educational technologies to national math standards and to use brain-based teaching strategies to make sure that the lessons "stick." The book will explore a variety of low-tech tools for measurement, color, problem alignment, highlighting, use of rubber stamps, markerboards, magnifiers, and more. There is a comparison of features in calculator categories including talking, giant, conversion, subject specific and money calculators, and you will discover how to make talking flash cards with a simple AT digital recording device.
Value: $20.00	Vendor: Onion Mountain Technology
News 4 You
Description: Suitable for all school-aged students, News 4 You helps you customize newspaper activities that explore current events, sports, birthdays, crosswords, weather, jokes, interviews, horoscopes and an advice column, as well as movie, book, restaurant and recipe reviews. It includes weekly newspaper templates based on Picture Communication Symbols (PCS), and features 400 pages of finished and master pages for customization. Based on the school calendar, it serves as an outreach to other students, parents, school staff and community.
Value: $18.00	Vendor: Mayer Johnson
Organization & Technology
Description: Organizational skills plague many students in --- and out – of special education. Students have problems keeping track of assignments and long-term projects; finding and storing papers; keeping their desks, lockers, and backpacks organized; making their work readable and organized; and prioritizing the importance of competing tasks. This book will provide a way to label what kind of organizational problem the students face (temporal, spatial, categorical, attentional, or prioritization), and then demonstrate a variety of low, mid and high tech tools which can help them be more independent and successful in these areas.
Value: $20.00	Vendor: Onion Mountain Technology
Phonics Handbook
Description: Strengthen students' reading skills. For primary students, struggling readers, and English Language Learners, this important resource explores the relationship between letters and the speech sounds they represent. Students learn to recognize patterns that will help them read and pronounce more challenging words.
Value: $6.95	Vendor: Curriculum Associates
Picture Exchange Communication System
Description: The Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS™) is designed for use with children with autism and related developmental disabilities. It empowers children to proactively engage in communication exchanges by teaching children to approach their communication partner (friend, parent, etc.) and exchange a picture of a desired item in exchange for that item. Suitable in a variety of settings, PECS™ enables children to calmly and clearly make a request within the first day of training, and requires no extensive equipment, comprehensive testing or expensive training. A DVD is also available.
Value: $69.00	Vendor: Mayer Johnson
Quick and Easy - Academic with video
Description: Quick and Easy Classroom uses PCS content and vocabulary to help teachers quickly and easily incorporate nonverbal students into the classroom. It includes two types of overlays to be used with augmentative communication devices:  The first set of overlays is centered around core ideas to be used throughout the school year such as art, lunch, a calculator and the alphabet.  The second set of overlays is designed around thematic units to help with instruction.  Both sets of Quick and Easy Classroom show how to meet IEP goals and objectives, and how to set up the classroom with appropriate accommodations.
Value: $20.00	Vendor: Mayer Johnson
Quick and Easy - Talk at Home with video
Description: Designed to help teachers integrate nonverbal students into the classroom, Quick and Easy Classroom Overlays include two types of overlays to be used with augmentive and alternative communication (AAC) devices. It contains Boardmaker® communication boards that:   Help nonverbal children effectively communicate,  Support a smooth transition through daily activities,  Stimulate discussion of daily events,  Boost participation in functional activities.  Can be customized to suit varying needs. Print overlays for repeated use at home or in the classroom.
Value: $15.00	Vendor: Mayer Johnson
R.A.P.S.: Reading Activities Project For Older Students
Description: 10 "whole language style" stories for older students with rhythm, rhyme (raps-style!), & repetition. Each story includes: story retelling overlay, role play overlay, and extension activities for: art, computer, reading, cooking, gross motor, etc.
Value: $25.00	Vendor: Mayer Johnson
R.E.A.D.! Really Easy Activities for Do It Yourselfers!
Description: This is a make and take-it book by Dr. Caroline Ramsey Musselwhite on adaptations that support access to reading skills.  The project planbook features 9 projects (e.g., book easels, page fluffers).  It includes illustrations, case examples, tips and one page of tip labels.
Value: $6.00	Vendor: Caroline Musselwhite
Reading and Technology
Description: Summary of all the tools and strategies involved with reading K-12 and technology. 59 pages.
Value: $25.00	Vendor: Onion Mountain Technology
Recipes for Success
Description: Clever, motivating activities using switches, voice output devices, and other assistive technology are clearly described in step-by-step fashion and offer helpful hints, ways to extend or modify the activity or equipment, and techniques for skill building. Whether your experience with AT is minimal or extensive, you are sure to appreciate this resource of 100's of easy to follow instructions and fresh new ways to utilize AT to improve the lives of your students. This is a must-have for all educational teams and parents of children with disabilities.
Value:	Vendor: This product is no longer available for purchase.
See It Right Kit
Description: A new authentic assessment to identify and remediate visual perceptual problems caused by a sensitivity to light. This assessment is a cost-effective, dynamic program developed specifically for teachers and specialists who work with elementary students. However, it has also been used through the high school level. If your students see moving, reversed or distorted letters and/or words, you can help them see clearly and accurately, using their own books and materials and a piece of colored plastic.
Value: $195.00	Vendor: See It Right
Signs and Symbols for Children
Description: Literature review and extensive "how-to" section with 25 original songs with tunes, goals, related activites. Appendices: listing of tunes, more than 100 signs (Signed English) and symbols (Blissymbols, Picsyms, PCS).
Value: $13.00	Vendor: Caroline Musselwhite
Silly Sally Guided Reading Kit
Description: Rhymes, rhythm, and other predictable language structures to encourage children to join in the shared reading experience.
Value: $24.95	Vendor: Scholastic
Simple Guide to Podcasting
Description: This book is a wonderful practical guide to podcasting. There’s even a chapter on copyright laws and acceptable use policies for podcasting. Learn what you can and can’t post on the internet, and explore safe podcasting practices. All of the materials were developed as a result of practical hands-on training.
Value: $19.98	Vendor: Tool Factory
Singing To Read: Songs For Favorite Children's Books
Description: Story construction songs for 10 favorite children's books, such as: Dear Zoo & Goodnight Moon. All songs are symbolized.
Value: $6.00	Vendor: Caroline Musselwhite
Songs to Communicate
Description: Songs To Communicate encourages language participation in a fun, lighthearted way with rhythm, melody and repetition of delightful music.
Value: $13.00	Vendor: Mayer Johnson
Successful AT use in Jr/Sr High Schools
Description: By the time students with special needs reach junior and senior high school, they must be prepared for fast moving schedules, a variety of teachers each day, rapidly increasing work demands, and a schedule without any extra time in it. The same applies to their special education teachers and case managers. This book is designed to demonstrate strategies and technology tools designed and tested by these older students and their teachers. In particular, we'll explore technology related topics including: ways to communicate with staff and parents via email and mail box, keeping track of assignments, working with regular educators to develop courses and assignments, modifying text levels, modifying tests and quizzes, choosing between books on tape and text readers, supporting and science with AT, low and mid tech tool options, preparing students for college AT use, note-taking, finding the best writing technology, and overcoming student reluctance to using AT.
Value: $	Vendor: Onion Mountain Technology
Symbol Songbook: Older Students Sing Out
Description: Includes light tech / high tech "how-to" section + 10 original symbolized songs & 2 traditional symbolized songs.
Value: $6.00	Vendor: Caroline Musselwhite
The AT Continuum  Description: You will be exposed to a full range of low, mid, and high tech tools (including the use of color, hand held devices, computers, and assistive software) designed to help students function more independently and successfully. Following the belief that people need to know what is available before making choices, this presentation will help participants match needs and strengths to tools; learn about establishing an entire collection of tools to meet variable needs, tasks, and environments; and find out where to get the tools as well as the necessary training. Finally, we will examine the pros and cons of many of the current technologies in order to provide the participants with the best and most thorough options and strategies to consider when making individual or program choices for assistive technology.
Value: $25.00	Vendor: Onion Mountain Technology
The Wonderful World of Word
Description: Microsoft Word is a powerful word processing program that dominates the business and educational field. Many people use it every day for reports and letters, and many students use it for papers and reports. Few teachers, though, have had the time to really explore the myriad of features tucked away in all areas of this program. Fewer still have thought seriously about how these created-for-business features could make a difference for them and their students. This books sets out to show you what you can and should be doing with Word. More than a tutorial for different program parts, this book will show you how to use these program features to make your life in the classroom more productive and creative. We’ll cover topics including: creating autotext buttons for report writing, autotext buttons for making picture schedules, using the form feature of Word to make locked worksheets, adding hints to these worksheets, using text boxes to create labeled diagrams, creating Mad-Lib type lessons with mail merge, using Auto Summarize and advanced Find/Replace for modifying text, determining readability of a passage, editing locked documents to comment on student work, making custom tool bars for underlining worksheets, putting pictures in tables, using tables for name poems, accessing and using Equation Editor for math, and much, much more.
Value: $25.00	Vendor: Onion Mountain Technology
This Is The One I Want
Description: It integrates the Picture Communication Symbols (PCS) into a series of 33 entertaining but structured activities and exercises. It is appropriate for any special needs student who enjoys creating simple pictures. The use of the picture symbols also allows for the physically challenged student to participate by directing activities.
Value: $49.00	Vendor: Spectronics
Time Saving Technology Tips for Teachers
Description: It's time to send out an SOS...(Save Our Sanity!) Today's teachers and therapists are buried under mounds of paperwork, evaluations, curriculum constraints and demands, and now an every-changing array of new and exciting technologies. This book is designed with one thing in mind -- how to save your time and effort through the use of technology. We'll demonstrate a variety of time-saving technology tips designed to help with teacher and student tasks. We'll cover a wide variety of programs available for the Macintosh and Windows platforms with special emphasis on Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, OmniGraffle and Adobe Acrobat as well as a variety of tools for managing, enhancing, and using digital images and sounds, and ways to computerize typical paper and pencil tasks.
Value: $20.00	Vendor: Caroline Musselwhite
Visual Literacy
Description: Really a book...principles of graphic design and visual learning for special education. 102 pages including quickstarts.
Value: $22.95	Vendor: Onion Mountain Technology
Visual Strategies for Improving Communication
Description: One of the major areas of difficulty for students with autism spectrum disorders is the development of social and communication skills. Communication breakdowns can be a "root" cause of problems in social interaction, educational performance, and behavior. While it is common for educational programming to focus on developing communication skills, that focus in most settings tends to be directed toward developing the student's expressive communication. Comparatively little attention is directed toward increasing the student's ability to understand the communication in his life. This book demonstrates why an inability to effectively take in and understand information can be a significant factor in these student's performance. Visual Strategies for Improving Communication contains numerous easy to use systems and strategies that have proven to help these students significantly improve their ability to understand, express themselves, participate in home and school routines and improve overall behavior.
Value: $39.95	Vendor: Amazon.com
Who, What, Why
Description: The book created to teach students, ages five and up, to understand and ask "why-" and "do" questions.  Student must make choices and comment about these choices or situations.  The activities are designed to be used in functional contexts (recreational, domestic, vocational, community, and communication).
Value: $49.00	Vendor: This product is no longer available for purchase.
Write to Talk - Talk to Write!
Description: Supporting Language & Literacy for AAC Users. Includes: writing scaffolds, alternative pencils, vocabulary access ideas, modeled writing, topics, velcro poetry
Value: $6.00	Vendor: Caroline Musselwhite
Using Assistive Technology Solutions to Meet Literacy Standards
Description: These books are organized by grade level; K-3, 4-6, 7-12. The books provide AT solutions and sample IEP goals, and cover a wide range of AT options, from digital talkers to slide-on pencil grips. Curriculum areas include reading, writing, written and oral composition, listening and speaking. Each book includes a PDF on a Win/Mac CD with a Classroom License for printouts.
Value: $49.00	Vendor: Attainment
W.R.I.T.E.! Writing with Really Innovative Tools for Everyone
Description: Project planbook with 10 projects (e.g.,velcro poetry, writing slant board), illustrations, case examples, tips 1 p. of tip labels
Value: $6.00	Vendor: Caroline Musselwhite