NE W V6 of Co:Writer, Write Outloud, Draft:Builder, Read:Outloud are Here!

Don Johnston’s new version of Solo literacy suite and updates to all the individual elements is now shipping. I’ve been test driving the individual pieces and the software as a whole and it’s very impressive.  (There are some great concise presentations available on the DJ website http://www.donjohnston.com) The software is solid, easy to use, easy…

Grid II Communication Access Software — Licensing for Clinicians

I’ve had a lot of questions recently about usage rights for clinicians for the face to face communication software, the Grid II from Sensory.  If its bought for a user can a clinic install it on their computers to support their user, create communication grids etc. Yes. I’ve pasted some information from the licensing document. …

ECT Course Coming to Ontario

Environmental Communication Teaching Training Coming to Canada The focus of Environmental Communication Teaching (ECT) training is functional communication in natural environments. These sessions are taught by renown AT consultant and instructor Kelly Fonner. For this series of training we are focusing on the use of AAC strategies and tools in the school environment. The full…

Communicate:Symwriter Trial Download

The 21 day trial for Communicate Symwriter can now be found on Widgit’s website.  https://download.widgit.com/symwriter/.  It looks like Mayer Johnson doesn’t have it on their website anymore. I haven’t tested this one,  but I think it should work fine — it is intended for North America.

Bridges HQ New Digs

New address:  2550 Argentia Rd., Ste. 121 Mississauga, ON L5N 5R1 I neglected to mention the fact that we moved.  We have palatial new digs!  Well perhaps that’s going a bit far but there is a koi pond in the lobby, (many sushi jokes floating around the office at the moment.) and we’ve got plenty…

Bridges Live in Grande Prairie AB

I’ll be doing a Bridge LIVE seminar with my colleagues Claire McLaren and Joyce Tschmier in Medicine Hat Alberta on October 26th.  This is great chance to see experience and learn about tech in person.  See more details under Prairie News.

Kurzweil 3000 and PDF’s

For some reason there’s a lot of misconceptions of Kurzweil 3000 not supporting pdf.’s It does in two ways.  Kurzweil V. 11 can open up pdf.’s directly.  You go to open and it will see a pdf in a file folder as a supported file type and open it and OCR it and read it.…

Bridges To Learning Intent to Submit Deadline Looming

The Bridges to Learning Conference 2010 is set for May 13 15, 2010. This year we’re doing a two step process for submissions.  If you have an idea for a proposal, email a few sentences before October 1st, to Chantal@bridges-canada.com. That way you don’t fill out a whole proposal only to find out that someone…

Portable Communication Aids

Dynavox has yanked all its Palm communication devices.  People who’ve been around for awhile remember these came from a company they bought called Enkindu.  I’m talking about the portable dynamic display communication devices that ran on Windows CE. We have a few alternatives, the Tellus Smart II from Jabbla which you can get in English,…