January 2012
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“Is he excited about the prospect of using such cutting-edge technologies to communicate better?
I find it exciting. Stephen has a stubborn attitude towards this sort of thing. He feels that he has to prove he can still use his existing system. The result is that when there is a communications expert in the room – someone trying to show him new technology – his speed using the existing...
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OT web bookmark resource
New year. New resolutions. I don’t have many other than to fix up a number of the little OT (and AAC) web based projects I have had on the go. First up is the link database. I used to have a database of rather neatly pruned and tagged links on delicious which took me a long time (like over 4 years), but some of the links became outdated (stale) and then I missed the 3 month window when...
December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
2 posts
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September 2011
5 posts
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PIPs for AAC users
Driving home from CM yesterday I listened to In Touch on Radio 4 which was discussing PIPs; Personal Independent Payments - the replacement to the disability living allowance that the government have been working on for some time. Thought it was worth sharing re: the AAC aspects of the PIPs..
In order to qualify for any component of PIP you will have to score a certain number of points in...
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August 2011
5 posts
A lot of people ask me, “Hey, you’re from Alabama. Are you...
– $1000 Best. Roommate. Ever. (via Craigslist)
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July 2011
4 posts
June 2011
5 posts
Question: when else would you eat pepperoni when it’s not on a pizza or in a plastic wrapper being a “bit of an animal”?
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May 2011
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If you see something thats not possible make it possible. If not now then when. If not me then who. (See more on the eyewriter project here)
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“yeah I went to anger management. And I got kicked out of anger management. For being angry.” Nicky on “The worlds strictest parents” BBC3.
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The $25 USB-stick PC →
Seems to me that David Brabens (ex-Elite fame) who once became successful building a game on the back of another educational computing platform - The BBC Micro - wants to do the same again. Here here - enough with IT lessons that are teaching kids how to use word..
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Chuffing Regular Expressions! I have had it with them! I need something a bit more powerful and something that doesn’t eat my entire computer..I’ve tried a whole range of methods and nothing is working - I have come to the conclusion I’m doing it all wrong. I need someone else to take this headache away from me. Anyone handy at some computational linguistics? Got nothing to do...
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Gaming in Education
Love this. It’s a post from Joel Levin. He is a computer teacher at a private school in NYC. One of many recent little things to explore in my current role is the use of gaming to support education in children with speech, language and communication difficulties. I work with a fab teacher & SLT who have already started this work - using Myst within special school classes. What I love...