Shop Information tagged with: cognitive

"AbleLink Technologies was founded in 1997 specifically to address the significant need for well-researched cognitive support technologies for individuals with intellectual disabilities. Our team has been built purposefully with individuals representing relevant fields of expertise including human services, human factors, rehab technology, software engineering, occupational therapy, and clinical and experimental psychology."

Products and downloads for language & communication, physical impairments, vision impairments, speech synthesis, voices and text to speech. Amsterdam based company. Many Mac friendly products.

"Cambium Learning Technologies ... includes ExploreLearning, IntelliTools, Kurzweil and Learning A-Z. Through its core divisions, Cambium Learning Group, Inc. provides research-based education solutions for students in Pre-K through 12th grade, including intervention curricula, educational technologies and services primarily focused on serving the needs of the nation's most challenged learners and enabling students to reach their full potential."

"We’re a bunch of people who believe that a good teacher and assistive technology can help every student with a disability read and write better than they can today. We’ve been creating tools focused on doing just that since 1980. Our tools are used by students with autism, dysgraphia, quadriplegia, cerebral palsy, and dyslexia in over 1/3 of U.S. school districts."

"Livescribe has developed a breakthrough low-cost mobile computing platform which includes the award-winning Pulse smartpen, dot paper, smartpen applications, Livescribe Desktop software, Livescribe Online Community, and development tools."

About the SmartPen: "The smartpen revolutionizes the act of writing by recording and linking audio to what you put on paper. Tap on words or drawings in your notes, and the smartpen replays recorded audio from the time you were writing. Transfer notes to your PC to backup, replay, and share them online."

"BrowseAloud reads web pages aloud for people who find it difficult to read online. Reading large amounts of text on screen can be difficult for those with literacy and visual impairments." As a website host, you can include a BrowseAloud that will read your site out loud to a visitor.

"It is simple. Any school that is already a recipient of the Breaking Down Barriers to Assistive Technology Grant or the Premier In-School program can simply sign up for the Home Use extension. Once a school signs up for the program, they are given a user name and password that allows students to log into the Premier AT Home site and download any and all Premier Literacy Accessibility Suite products onto their personal computers."

"Premier Literacy has established a mission to provide assistive technology to persons with disabilities and give them access to today's technologically oriented world. In targeting those objectives, we are rapidly finding that our technologies are beginning to reach far beyond the boundaries that have historically been framed by the visually disabled software market to other emerging areas. We have developed a complete suite of products that address "reading, writing and information transfer" needs for individuals with visual, cognitive and mobility challenges. Applications for learning disabilities, general literacy and English as a Second Language can also be well-served using existing and emerging assistive technologies."

Makers of: "NETalker, Premier Internet Toolbar, Universal Reader Plus, Scan and Read Pro, Text-To-Audio, Talking Word Processor, Text Cloner Pro, PDF Equalizer ML, PDF Builder, Ultimate Talking Dictionary, Predictor Pro Word Prediction, Talking Checkbook, E-Library, E-Text Reader, Premier Test Builder, Key to Access™, Key to Access VPod™, Premier To Go, Premier Videocast Studio, Language Model Information Summarization, and Talking Calculator."

Maker of "personal, portable, scanning dictionaries, reading pens and scanning pens. Our pocket-size, user-friendly Quicktionary® Pens enable students and people working in multilingual environments to translate and define printed material without disrupting their reading process. Our ReadingPen® products serve as assistive reading devices for people with reading difficulties such as dyslexia and  our InfoScan^TM Pens are an effective productivity tool for business people and students, allowing them to scan printed text and transfer it to a PC or handheld device either immediately or at a later time."

"Electronic devices for treating stuttering and other speech disorders."

"The Smalltalk anti-stuttering device immediately reduces stuttering, while training you to no longer need the device. It's the world's smallest DAF/FAF anti-stuttering device,"