Mobile App Monday - soundAMP R

Looking for an alternative to hearing aids? Try soundAMP R. Sounds are sent to your earbuds in real time. Hear what you’d like to hear. Record what you’d like to record! Works in many situations, around the table at home, watching TV, in lecture halls, at parties, wherever you’d like to hear, or overhear, the people around you!

Interested? Visit: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/soundamp-r/id318126109?mt=8

Data Dynamics

Data dynamics: Aligning teacher team, school, & district efforts is a book about the deliberate and continuous tasks of accessing and using information in the context of district and school improvement processes and teachers instructional planning. Common misuses of data are illustrated and as well as strategies for how to use data better to help identify areas for improvement and more effectively help all students succeed. This book is designed to help administrators and leaders use the appropriate data to guide their school improvement efforts.

Interested? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check out this title.

Technology-related Internships for Students with Disabilities

Are you a high school or college student with a disability?

Would you like to gain valuable experience through paid internships and other work-related opportunities?

Are you interested in computing careers?

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington and DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology) sponsor the AccessComputing project for the purpose of increasing the participation of people with disabilities in computing careers. It is funded by the National Science Foundation (award #CNS-0540615, CNS-0837508, and CNS-1042260). AccessComputing provides a nationwide resource to help students with disabilities pursue computing fields and computing educators and employers, professional organizations, and other stakeholders develop more inclusive programs and share effective practices.

Want to learn more about it? Visit: http://www.washington.edu/accesscomputing/team_app.html

Ellettsville Seeking Input from Public

According to an article in the Bloomington Herald-Times, the town of Ellettsville, Indiana, is seeking input from the public on serving residents with disabilities and will hold a public hearing tonight on its ADA Transition Plan. The town's Director of Planning, Connie Griffin, says that planners want public input on this Transition Plan which will outline plans for improving Ellettsville's ADA accessibility. The plan is due for completion by December 2012.

The public hearing will be held at 7:00 p.m. tonight in the Ellettsville Fire Department's conference room. The fire department is located at 5080 W. Ind. Hwy. 46.

Mobile App Monday - Expressionist

Expressionist is designed to help users express and model expressions. Expressionist uses high quality pictures and avoids using secondary references (such as using "snail" or "turtle" to represent "slow"). The face and gestures of the cartoon character is carefully designed such that any visual learner would have no issue understanding or modeling it. In fact, none of the pictures requires learning any symbol or encoding system.

To learn more about this app, visit: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/expressionist/id318022654?mt=8

Help with Tuition for Adults with Blindness

Looking for a little help with college tuition for someone who is blind?

"To recognize achievement by blind scholars, the National Federation of the Blind annually offers blind college students in the United States and Puerto Rico the opportunity to win one of thirty national scholarships worth from $3,000 to $12,000.

"Applicant requirements:

1. must be legally blind in both eyes, and
2. must be residing in the United States, the District of Columbia, or Puerto Rico, and
3. must be pursuing or planning to pursue a full-time, postsecondary course of study in a degree program at a United States institution in the 2012 scholastic year, except that one scholarship may be given to a person employed full-time while attending school part-time, and
4. must participate in the entire NFB national convention and in all of its scheduled scholarship program activities.

"In addition to a scholarship, each winner will receive assistance to attend the 2012 National Federation of the Blind Annual Convention in July, providing an excellent opportunity for high-level networking with active blind persons in many different professions and occupations."

For more information, visit the National Federation of the Blind's Scholarship Program page at: http://nfb.org/scholarship-program

Made for Good Purpose

It's hard enough being a teenager thinking of leaving home and facing the unknown but, for those on the autism spectrum or with learning disabilities, it can be even harder. Made for good purpose: What every parent needs to know to help their adolescent with asperger's, high functioning autism or a learning difference become an independent adult can help. Giving these kids the extra support and advice they need  makes all the difference. This book is filled with personal anecdotes from the author's experiences with asperger's and those of his students. Social skills, finances, healthy lifestyles, higher education, and employment are all covered.


Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a  library near you.