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=Quick links to questions that were asked during the conference sessions (in no particular order!)=

- They have a lot of information about assistive technology on their web site. - They offer workshops throughout the state. See ‘Disability Links’ for more information.
 * [|South Carolina Assistive Technology Program] (SCATP)** www.sc.edu/scatp/

This site is maintained by the SC Department of Education’s Assistive Technology Specialists. It includes answers to many questions about assistive technology and give contact information for the specialists in each region in the state. See ‘Disability Links’ for more information. For additional information about the Assistive Technology Specialists, see [|Regional Services - Assistive Technology Specialists] ed.sc.gov/agency/Accountability/Regional-Services/ATRS.html
 * South Carolina Collaborative Assistive Technology Network ( SCCATN) ** sccatn.wikispaces.com/

This is a “technical standard used by publishers to produce source files (in XML) that may be used to develop multiple specialized formats (such as Braille or audio books) for students with print disabilities.” See ‘Universal Design for Learning & Software Examples of UDL’ in Tips for more information.
 * [|NIMAS (National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard])** nimas.cast.org/index

It can be frustrating to get an accessible textbook for a student; it may take a few months into the school year. Bookshare is a source for assessable textbooks for individuals with a documented print disability. If your textbook publisher is on the vendor list, it should be available through Bookshare. See ‘Universal Design for Learning & Software Examples of UDL’ in Tips for more information.
 * [|Bookshare]** “Accessible Books and Periodicals for Readers with Print Disabilities” www.bookshare.org/

This is how we made the pictures of the three ‘t’s. You can write a word, it will spell it into individual letters that you can change until you like the way it looks. You can then save the letters or the word as an image and insert it in a web site, document, presentation, etc. See ‘Fun With Words’ in Tools for more ideas.
 * [|Spelling with Flickr]** metaatem.net/words/

This is the tool that will put a button on your web site that says something like ‘“Select text & click for speech”,’ The user highlights text that he or she wants to have read aloud, presses the button, and the text is read. See ‘Reading & Writing Supports: Screen Readers & Text to Speech’ in Tools for more ideas.
 * [|vozMe]** vozme.com/webmasters.php?lang=en

This tool by the CAST (Center for Applied Special Technology) allows you or your students to create online books that include audio support through animated characters that can read selected text, define selected words, give additional examples of topic, etc. You can then publish your book for others to use. The example was of a book about computer vocabulary found from a search of the ‘Public Library’. See ‘Universal Design for Learning & Software Examples of UDL’ in Tips for more ideas.
 * [|Bookbuilder]** bookbuilder.cast.org/

This feature of Word takes a passage of text and highlights the test that is deemed most important. You can adjust the percent of the text it will highlight. You can keep the highlighted within the body of the text, put it at the beginning of the passage, etc. The example was doing an autosummary of a few paragraphs from a web site about dinosaurs. See a screencast video about using the Autosummarize feature. accessibledocs.wikispaces.com/Autosumm Also see ‘Readability’ in Tips for more ideas.
 * AutoSummarize** – in Microsoft Word