Assistive Technology
Multimedia
- Braille n' Speak Presentation (Breeze)
- PacMate PMView Presentation (Breeze)
- Cranmer Abacus Series (Breeze)
- PowerPoints and Voice Over (Breeze)
- Braille Plus Video Series
Links
- Texas School for the Blind Adaptive Technology website.
- SET BC Learning Centre.
- Tutorial for sighted users of JAWS screen reader by Kathleen Beaver.
- APH Technology software and hardware demonstrations.
- AFB (American Foundation for the Blind) Technology
- Intellitools
- PulseData/Humanware
- Freedom Scientific
- GW Micro
Docuemnts
Discussion Forum
There is a discussion forum provided for this section. This forum is designed to allow mentors and protégés to communicate and allow the rest of the mentoring community to benefit from these interactions.
Specialist Bio
Sandy Smith is an instructor at UMass Boston where she co-teaches the two braille courses for both the TVI and O&M Programs. Sandy has been using braille for over thirty-five years, is a member for the BANA Formats Committee, is certified as a braille transcriber, and holds a Certificate of Literary Braille Competency from the Library of Congress. Sandy is a certified TVI. She taught at Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts for thirty years. She began as a teacher of Remedial Language Arts, and later became a Computer teacher at the secondary level.
Sandy also holds an advanced C.A.E.S. degree in Educational Technology. She helped to develop the curriculum for the two semester braille course and works with other members of the Instructional Technology Committee at NERCVE to develop strategies for using technology in new and innovative ways for the delivery of online content.
