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Assistive Tech > Hardware
AAC Devices and Apps: How to Choose Speech-Generating Technology
...eye-tracking systems, with a decision framework based on function and a breakdown of what insurance covers....Proloquo2Go, TouchChat, and CoughDrop. You're buying software, not hardware. Updates come through the app store....Saltillo, Grid Pad from Smartbox. They run proprietary software on ruggedized hardware designed to survive drops,...
Lifestyle > Independence
Assistive Technology That Helps: Tools for Daily Living Independence
...weighted utensils with timers, automatic jar openers. High-tech tools involve software, customization, or integration with other systems. Environmental control...systems. Environmental control units that operate lights and locks, tablet-based meal planning apps with visual schedules, smart home setups controlled by...
Assistive Tech > Mobility
Tariffs Are Raising the Cost of Wheelchairs, AAC Devices, and Medications — What Families Can Do
...2026 could reach 200%. While the Supreme Court struck down certain IEEPA-based tariffs on February 20, 2026, tariffs imposed under other statutory authorities...tablets, eye-gaze hardware. Most components are manufactured abroad. Even software-only solutions run on hardware subject to tariffs. Pharmaceutical products:...
Career > Accommodations
Assistive Technology at Work: Finding and Funding the Tools You Need
...That includes hardware like adapted keyboards and ergonomic equipment, software like voice recognition programs and text-to-speech tools, and modified devices....a workplace perk. The exceptions: if the cost creates an undue hardship based on the employer's size and resources, they may decline. Smaller organizations...
Assistive Tech > Software
Desktop AAC Software vs. Apps: When You Need More Than an iPad
...iPad app or dedicated desktop AAC software is the right choice for a nonverbal...honest place to begin. What Tablet-Based AAC Gets Right. Apps like Proloquo2Go,...SLP community's confidence in iPad-based AAC over the past fifteen years is...specific circumstances where a tablet-based system runs into structural limitations...
Assistive Tech > Software
Best Text-to-Speech Software for Dyslexic Students: A K-12 Guide
...student with dyslexia, every text-based assignment adds friction, and that...disability itself. Text-to-speech software does not remove dyslexia, but it removes...information as their peers. Which software does that most effectively depends...Is the Feature. At the K-5 level, software that requires configuration or feels...
Special Needs > Autism Spectrum
How Elemy's Transition to Software Impacts the Autism Spectrum Community
...a Predominantly Software-Based Company....Predominantly Software-Based Company. San Francisco-based...Company. San Francisco-based health tech startup Elemy has...becoming a primarily software-based company....primarily software-based company. In pursuit...to a primarily software-focused platform....where we had a software platform that empowered...efficacy of their software in a real-world...
Assistive Tech > Apps
App of the Day: Simplex Spelling
...With that in mind, we wanted to take a phonics-based spelling approach to literacy." –Craig Welburn,...literacy." –Craig Welburn, co-founder of Pyxwise Software and co-creator of Simplex Spelling Simplex Spelling...how to read, her research led her to a phonics-based spelling approach to literacy. But the curriculum...
Education > K-12
Hands-On Math Hundreds Chart
...level math classes. He also taught a computer-based math methods course at a university in Southern...graduate degrees in education learned to build software to teach math with a computer. "These early computers...different from the typical drill and practice math software." He recognized that computers could give what...
Health > Treatment
Neurofeedback: The Cure for ADHD?
...to a drug remedy, then it must be a software problem, not a hardware problem. The...problem, not a hardware problem. The software remedy on the horizon that addresses...Neurofeedback is a training technique based on the brainwaves themselves. Just...also indicate to us what kind of EEG-based training can affect a remedy....
Education > K-12
CDC Offers New Epidemiology Camps for Kids
...analyze an epidemiological survey-based study Use EpiInfo software to input...epidemiological survey-based study Use EpiInfo software to input and analyze survey data Design...and propose public health strategies based on epidemiological data Based on the...strategies Based on epidemiological data Based on the popularity of other CDC student...
Assistive Tech > Software
Screen Reader Software for Students: JAWS vs NVDA vs VoiceOver Compared
Free doesn't mean inferior. Compare JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver for students: cost, school compatibility, learning curve, and IEP requests.