Hmm... who needs another blog, website or ?? on AT? Probably no one. There are an incredible number of websites, tutorials, videos, and on-line courses on the basics of Assistive Technology.
So WHY this blog?
This blog will hopefully NOT reinvent the wheel (so to speak!). The goal is to identify truly excellent resources to help answer the basic questions as to how technology can assist you. It will also help me organize my thoughts so that I can "clean-up" these "stream of consciousness" type posts into articles for, dare I say since I am admittedly biased, excellent websites on Assistive Technology - those being http://atrc.utoronto.ca/ and http://snow.utoronto.ca/ .
What's so great about these websites?
The ATRC site is being redesigned and will have a new face in the next few months. I am hoping to reorganize the content to reflect a focus on how commercial assistive technology products and our many research projects are supporting the evolution of technology in it's many development phases to be more inclusive of all who use it.
SNOW is an excellent resource of many resoruces related to special education - not just AT. That being said - there is also a lot of information and an online course available on AT... so I would encourage you to "check it out"!
So... What to look forward to?
I am thinking that I will create short posts whenver I have a few minutes to summarize basic AT principles, highlight new and funky technology, examples of the "curb cut advantage" in our daily lives, helpful hints, quick tips... whatever I am inspired to write at the moment.
Formal writing is NOT my favorite thing (not a surprise if you've come this far), but these thoughts will contain resources that will hopefully help you on your search for more information to help you, your clients, your family or with whatever quest brought you to this site.
If I'm not posting and you want to give me a virtual kick in the pants to get going again - feel free to do so!
If you have a specific topic or question you'd like more information about... send this to me as well!
This will be fun!!!
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