Bridges News

Accessible Text Repositories -- Canadian and International 1

Recently, a teacher in BC whose student just received Kurzweil 3000 called and said "Given that many students in BC use Kurzweil 3000, I have two questions:

1) Surely, I don’t have to turn a whole bunch of common Grade 6 novels and textbooks into .kesi files for this specific student?

2) Surely, someone else has already done this work and there is a source for it?"

I answered, “of course you don't,” and “of course there is.” (Bracketed by the phrases “reinventing the wheel” and “don’t call me Shirley...”)

Bridges Announces New Low Cost Eye Gaze Systems 0

Bridges, the Canadian source for eye gaze technology, is pleased to announce the arrival of the portable, affordable eye gaze systems, The Key and The Comm.

Both the Key and the Comm are powered by a full Windows 8 tablet and USB connected eye gaze system.

The Key is designed for affordable alternative access while the Comm is an eye controlled face-to-face communication tool.

SymWriter in the Cloud! 0

SymWriter Online Canadian (now named Widgit Online, as of 2016) has been launched. Another familiar piece of AT software has floated up and out to lofty internet heights; symbol supported word processing is in the cloud available through your web browser.

uPAR -- New Breakthrough Reading Accommodation Assessment 0

Back in April 2012 we raved about PAR (Protocol for Accommodations in Reading). This is a system for assessing the effectiveness of a specific reading accommodation for an individual student by noted researchers and educators Denise DeCoste and Linda Bastiani Wilson.