Bridges new website is LIVE!

Bridges has a brand new website that makes searching for, learning about, and purchasing Assistive Technology easier than ever. To celebrate we’re having a launch sale.  All-Turn-It Spinner, Don Johnston Switch Interface, Connection in the Workplace and other curricula, Jelly Bean Switch and more! We’ll be adding more items, so be sure to sign up for…

Free Symbolized Resources for 2015 Pan Am Games

Inspired by our recent March break camps and up coming summer camps, our training department put together some symbolized resources for the 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games taking place in Toronto in July. Below you can download the pdf versions which you can print freely. If you have Communicate: In Print, email us at Bridges and…

Sites Rich with Resources for Teaching Special Needs Math, Literacy

Alberta Education has launched two websites summarizing their initiatives for Literacy for All and Numeracy for all.

Equals + AB Teachers = Awesome Resource for Special Needs Math

As part of an ongoing initiative, Numeracy for All — A Community of Practice, Alberta teachers are sharing their experiences with the Equals math curriculum for students with significant disabilities on a publicly readable Wiki. http://abnumeracyforall.wikispaces.com/home (Last year we wrote about the sister wiki that described the Literacy for All project in Alberta.) In 2012 – 2013 Alberta Education, in collaboration with Central Alberta Regional…

Apple vs. Win in the Classroom — and the winner is…. Chrome?

This is the second of three posts about trends we see effecting AT in the coming months written by Bogdan Pospielovsky  Business Development Manager at Bridges. Coming up: Chromebooks and iPads, the Internet of things, eye-gaze in the classroom, the return of Word Prediction, AT legacy and the new platforms. What trends have we missed?…

LDCSB’s educATe Site Launched

London District Catholic School Board’s  educATe website is officially up and running after a day of presentations and hands-on exploring on Friday Sept 21st.  We started this PD day with two hands-on sessions in a board office computer lab with about 40 Educational Assistants (EA’s). Then in the afternoon we toured educATe with about 200…

Bridges Announces ECT Training for 2012-2013

Bridges will be offering ECT training for the 2012-2013 school year in Mississauga and Winnipeg. ECT training has two goals. The first, and primary goal, is to facilitate an increase of augmentative communication use in target students. The secondary goal is to give communication facilitating adults (SLPs, teachers, parents, care-givers, para-educators, and others) strategies for…

Reading Accommodation Assessment System Now a Free Download

The PAR (Protocol for Accommodations in Reading) is a system for assessing reading accommodations by Denise DeCoste, author of the widely embraced Assistive Technology Assessment: Developing a Writing Productivity Profile and Linda Bastiani Wilson. PAR is completely free as a download from the good folks at Don Johnston Inc. PAR doesn’t compare specific pieces of…

New e-Sourcebook — Updated for 2012

We’ve just released an updated e-version of the Bridges Sourcebook.  Still the most comprehensive guide to AT in Canada with plenty of tips and tricks buying guides and more.   You can browse and download from our Issuu site http://issuu.com/bridgescanada/docs/bridges_sourcebook_2012 Or request a free cd with an easily searchable pdf.

Bridges LIVE! Newmarket

We’ve confirmed our next Bridges LIVE! event will be in Newmarket, Ontario.  Bridges LIVE! is an interactive, hands-on day of trying technology and curricula for students with special needs.  This year we’re focusing on tools for students with intellectual, physical and/or communication challenges who may be following modified or alternative curricula. Looks like there will…