Who is. Employment and Education Solutions 4/23/2015. Access Technologies, Inc. "For people without disabilities, technology makes things easier.

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1 "For people without disabilities, technology makes things easier. Elisha Kirsch, ATP For people with disabilities, technology makes things possible. Who is Get to Know Us!

2 VISION A society where all people are valued and respected, and where all people have the knowledge, opportunity and power to improve their lives and the lives of others. MISSION To assure that persons with disabilities in Oregon will be able to secure and effectively use assistive technologies. About ATI Assessments Assistive Technology Ergonomic Risk Workplace Computer Trainings Assistive Technology Computer Access idevices Voice Recognition

3 About OSATP At School At Work At Home In The Community Device Demonstrations Device Loans State Financing Programs AT Purchasing Plan Cooperative Buying Device Reutilization Public Awareness Activities Information and Assistance Technical Assistance Information and communications Technology (ICT) About NDBEDP National Deaf Blind Equipment Distribution Program icanconnect Oregon Demonstrations Assessments Short Term Loan Purchase Training

4 How Can Assistive Technology Help with Education? Hearing Solutions Vision Cognitive Devices Tactile books Audio books pens Talking Dictionaries ereaders

5 Built in Accessibility PC Narrator Magnifier Mac VoiceOver Zoom Invert colors Accessibility on ios Accessibility for Increase Contrast Invert Colors Grayscale Large Text Speak Selection Speak Screen

6 Speak Selection on ios Speak Selection Built in accessibility feature in ios 8 Allows highlighted text to be read aloud. Speak Screen on ios Speak Screen Built in accessibility feature in ios 8 Different than Speak Selection! Can be activated through Siri or through the Accessibility setting Only runs on devices running ios 8 or higher

7 Software Claro Read Read and Write Gold Kurzweil 3000 Apps ibooks vbookz PDF Word Reader Voice Dream Reader TextGrabber Read2Go Audiobooks News2You KNFB

8 Talk to Me Talk to Me - $1.99 (ios) Interactive "Talk to me" speaks the words as typed Continues speaking in the background or when the device is locked Supports remote control of pausing and playing Displays the current words being spoken on the lock screen and in the multi tasking bar's play controls ClaroSpeak Plus ClaroSpeak Plus (ios) $6.99 Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Read aloud any accessible text

9 Prizmo Prizmo Mac and ios ($9.99) Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Translation VoiceOver compatible Dynamix text size ZoomReader ZoomReader ios $19.99 Magnification zoom up to 4X Filter six different color filter modes OCR and Text to Speech Customizable highlight colors Adaptable speech rate

10 How Can Assistive Technology Help with Education? Hearing Solutions Vision Cognitive Devices Pen Grips or holders Raised lines or line guides Fusion Writer

11 Built in Accessibility PC On Screen Keyboard Sticky Keys Filter keys Mac Slow Keys Sticky keys Built in Accessibility ios Keyboard features Shortcuts Auto Capitalization Auto Correction Enable Caps lock Word Prediction Split keyboard Dictations

12 Software Voice Recognition (Speech to Text) Read and Write Gold WYNN Wizard Solo 6 Suite (Co:Writer) Inspiration Speech to Text Built in Microsoft Speech Recognition Program Save Voice File No Yes Customize Vocabulary Yes but limited to vocabulary already used on the computer Customize Quick Commands Able to Learn from mistakes Upgradeable Yes but computer code must be written first No No Dragon NaturallySpeaking Yes can add and delete words Yes simply select text, pictures or mouse movements and save as a command Yes Yes

13 Read and Write Gold Available for PC/ Mac/iDevices/ Android Spell Checker Verb Checker Word Prediction Speech Input Verb Checker Speak while typing Sounds like and confusable words WYNN Wizard WYNN Wizard for PC Word prediction Outlines Spell Check as you Type Homophones

14 Inspiration Inspiration for PC/Mac/iOS Mind maps with pictures and text Instantly transform mind map into an outline to develop writing Make visual connections in Outline View by showing or hiding symbols and Linking Phrases Take multiple topics and make them one topic using Combine Topics Use Break Apart to divide one long topic with multiple ideas into separate topics Use Word Count to meet word and page count requirements Applications Clicker ios Pix Writer ios Pictello ios Inspiration Sentence Builder Dragon Dictate CoWriter ireadwrite Spell Better Abilipad Typ O HD

15 Co Writer Co Writer ios $19.99 Read aloud Word prediction Phonetic spelling Typ O HD Typ-O HD ios $14.99 Word Prediction Text to Speech

16 Dragon Dictation Dragon Dictation ios Free Voice to text Easy edit feature Voice correction interface Swype Swype ios $0.99/ Android Free Gesture typing dictionary Customize dictionary settings Auto correction Phrase Correction

17 Keeble Keeble ios $14.99 Word prediction Timing options Select on Release Select on Dwell Auditory feedback Swiftkey Swiftkey ios/android Free Adapted keyboard Learns a writing style Autocorrect Word prediction

18 How Can Assistive Technology Help with Education? Hearing Solutions Vision Cognitive Devices SmartPens Jenda Talking Calendar Watch Minder Z Band

19 Life Balance Available for Mac/PC/ iphone/ and Palm OS Easy to customize To Do list with priority levels Easily update the To Do list order Automatically group tasks in same location Alerts and Reminders for meetings and tasks Break down tasks into smaller sections Apps Reminders Calendars Note Takers

20 Skitch Skitch Free (ios and Android) Part of the Evernote family Visually communicate ideas Snap and store pictures Write on pictures Share with others Any.Do Any.DO Web, Mac, PC, ios and Android Free Seamless cloud sync, Speech recognition, Alerts Turn missed calls into reminders

21 Picture Scheduler Google Keep Google Keep Android Free Voice Photos Written notes Lists Categories by color or icon Sync with device and use offline Compatible with GoogleDrive

22 ColorNote ColorNote Notepad Android Free Take notes, s, to-do lists etc. Organize notes and tasks by color Set reminders Auto backup cloud or SD card 30/30 30/30 ios Free Timer based task manager Setuplistofto-dotasks Lists synced over icloud Assign time for each task Built in breaks

23 iprompts iprompts ios $49.99 Android $9.99 Visual schedules Visual countdown timer Choice prompts and print Voice narration Image library How Can Assistive Technology Help with Education? Hearing Solutions Vision Cognitive

24 Devices and Apps Cognitive Picture board and books Talking Photo Albums Speech Communication devices and apps Proloquo2Go Step by Step Task apps - CanPlan CanPlan Cognitive CanPlan ios (unlock $15.00) Brake down an activity or task into sequence of steps Using pictures with captioned text or audio Schedule task reminders

25 How Can Assistive Technology Help with Education? Hearing Solutions Vision Cognitive Devices Vision Magnifiers CCTV s Contrast Lens Talking Calculators Tactile Graphics Color Readers Braille Displays

26 Software and Apps Vision Software Screen Readers Jaws OpenBook OCR Screen Magnification ZoomText Apps VoiceOver OCR KNFB Reader Zoom How Can Assistive Technology Help with Education? Hearing Solutions Vision Cognitive

27 Devices Hearing FM Systems Portable Info Loops Amplified Stethoscope Sonic Alerts UbiDuo QUESTIONS??