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Pokemon GO outdoors

Pokemon GO is a popular free augmented reality app for iPhones and Android (including Samsung) devices. To play it you need to leave your […]

Pokemon GO is helping people with autism

RemoteMouse

Tiny keyboard and mouse combination devices such as the wireless iPazzPort, Compass Mini or FAVI FE01-BL Mini can help people who have a limited range of movement. Most […]

Control your PC mouse and keyboard using your phone

Speechless TV Series Screenshot

Speechless is a new TV comedy series due to air on the 21st September 2016. It features a family of five including a mum who fights […]

Speechless – Official trailer of a new TV series

Windows 10 Keyboard Repeat Rate Dialog

This tutorial looks at how to slow down the keyboard repeat rate in Microsoft Windows. Many people find that when they press a key […]

Adjust Windows Keyboard Repeat Rate

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Sticky Keys is a free Windows accessibility features that helps people who find it difficult to hold down two keys at the same time.

Sticky Keys in Windows 10

Voice Access Screenshot

For a few years Google Now and Siri have enabled iPhone, Samsung and other Android users to make calls, send messages and ask questions using voice alone. It’s […]

Access your phone or tablet using only your voice

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Bragi Dash Earphones

The Bragi Dash is a set of $299 earphones that can play audio and intelligently process and filter the sounds around you. Fundamentally they […]

Placing computers inside the ears of children with Autism and ADHD

SoliType

Last summer I shared a short video about Project Soli, an advanced Google Project that uses a tiny radar to detect and recognise small movements. The […]

Project Soli produces first gesture protoype

Today I was instructed by my university to download SPSS from their server so I could complete a practical statistics activity for my course. […]

Downloading Large Files Slowly

Windows 8 On Screen Keyboard

Although it is possible to buy keyboards of alternative shapes and sizes, access can often be improved by use of Windows’ Accessibility Options and […]

Solutions for keyboard difficulties

Most children with autism have some difficulty understanding and talking with people. Communication skills are fundamental for participation in family activities, to do well at school and for long-term […]

10 things you should know when considering an iPad as a communication tool for your autistic …

The Grid 2 Arabic communication grid

This week I worked with a 21-year-old CP lady, Ms F, whose expressive communication is limited to a few hand gestures and a glottal […]

Case Study: Understanding Symbols on an AAC device

World OT Day Logo

Celebrate the role that OTs have in helping people lead fulfilling and meaningful lives around the world. Yesterday I joined forces with Sidra Medical […]

World OT Day 2015

Text in different colours

Mears Irlen Syndrome / Visual Stress (MISVis), also known as Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome (SSS), describes distortions in vision sometimes experienced by people with dyslexia, attention […]

Colour tinting your computer screen (to make text easier to read)

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Stephen Hawking in Space

In January 2012 Intel announced they were looking into improving the efficiency of Stephen Hawking’s access to his communication aid. At the time, an infrared […]

Stephen Hawking’s improved speech software is now free to download

Girl Clapping

Background Information When we’re born we immediately use a range of pre-intentional behaviours to communicate. Generally a crying or laughing baby is not consciously intending […]

Developing symbolic communication using a BIGMack and a clapping activity

Windows 8 Mouse Properties

Windows Snap To Snap To is an accessibility option in Windows that automatically moves the cursor to the default button (usually “OK”) in any dialog box. […]

Snapping the mouse pointer to buttons

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Model train set scene

Here’s a session I did this afternoon. The child is 5 years old, nonverbal, has good receptive language, and is a little non-compliant. He […]

Encourage expressive communication with a scene building activity (and GoTalk Now!)

Optima rollerball and joystick

If you’re finding the computer mouse difficult to use you might to think about making some changes in Windows or downloading some free software […]

Alternatives to the regular computer mouse

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Mouse tremor

Hardware Ten years ago IBM created a box that you could plug into your computer that would reduce the effect of tremors on the movement of […]

Solutions for Mouse Tremors

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The Soli chip

I work with a number of people who benefit from the Micro Light switch to access computers, phones and tablets. The switch is suitable […]

Project Soli captures tiny gestures

Jackson Pollock Website Screenshot

Create some abstract expressionist art (potentially worth millions) using a mouse, rollerball, joystick, headpointer or even eyegaze. Press the mouse button (or hit the switch or […]

Develop early mouse skills at jacksonpollock.org

iPad App Shapes & Colors

This fun app takes children through a series of activities to help them learn about shapes and colours. It can easily be used for […]

Learn Shapes & Colours with Patchimals Shapes&Colors

Dasher Screenshot

The Inference Group at Cambridge University originally intended to create a method of entering text into PDAs and other mobile devices. The result, however, […]

Hands-free computer access using Dasher

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Charlie Danger is an Occupational Therapist who has been finding ways in which technology can help improve the quality of life for adults and children since 1999.

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