UCP Election Day Twitter Patrol

United Cerebral Palsy has set up a twitter feed for real time reports of polling conditions for people with disabilities! For more information and to find out how you can participate, visit their blog at http://twitterpatrol.blogspot.com/. Want to find out more about voting accessibility? Visit: http://delicious.com/cedir/voting

Did You Hear...No Child Left Behind ACT

Online Resources:

http://delicious.com/cedir/nclb

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10 Tools for testing Web Accessibility

Jacob Gube at Six Revisions has put together a list of 10 free tools available to test how accessible your website is for people with disabilities. Often when people think of web accessibility they mainly think about whether or not their website is legible to a screen reader. Mr. Gube's list also includes tools to ensure that your website is accessible for people with low vision, and people who are color blind. Check it out at:

http://sixrevisions.com/web-standards/accessibility_testtools/

Technical difficulties...

Due to some technical difficulties our regularly scheduled podcast will be delayed by a day or so. In the meantime, please enjoy a book review!

Peer Buddy Programs for Successful Secondary School Inclusion. Everybody wins when schools include kids with disabilities and their peers without. This book looks at the ideas, philosophy an research behind inclusion in the schools. It goes on to say exactly what a peer buddy program is and how to start one, how to recruit participants, and how to sustain the program.This book will help school administration, teachers and anyone interested in inclusion in today's schools.

Call us to check it out or go to worldcat.org to find it in a library near you!