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		<title>The Power of Peers</title>
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I found this youtube video and wanted to share it with everyone. It&#8217;s about a young boy with cerebral palsy and his desire to get involved with sports at his school. Well, I will let the video tell the rest of the story!

 It just goes to show you, communication can take on many forms!
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		<title>Free IEP Checklist Application for iPhone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Parent Educational Advocacy Training Center (PEATC) is pleased to announce the development of an Individualized Education Program (IEP) Checklist iPhone application.
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The IEP is an individualized program designed to support the educational needs of school aged students with disabilities. This new IEP app helps parents of students with special needs become better-informed advocates by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aacdevices.com/free-iep-checklist-application-for-iphone.php</link>
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		<title>What is Proloquo2Go?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Proloquo2Go™ is a new product from AssistiveWare that provides a full-featured communication solution for people who have difficulty speaking. It brings natural sounding text-to-speech voices, up-to-date symbols, powerful automatic conjugations, a default vocabulary of over 7000 items, full expandability and extreme ease of use to the iPhone and iPod touch.




With a price of US$ 189 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aacdevices.com/what-is-proloquo2go.php</link>
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		<title>What is Assistive Technology?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Assistive Technology (AT) devices are any type of aid that can substitute or enhance functions of a person with a disability.  AT can be home-made, purchased, a modified product that is used to help an individual perform a daily task. AT covers low-tech (pencil grips, paper stabilizers or adaptive scissors) to high-tech ( computers, voice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aacdevices.com/what-is-assistive-technology.php</link>
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		<title>iPrompt Looks Promising</title>
		<description><![CDATA[iPrompts is a new app available at the iTunes store designed for parents, special educators and other working with children and adults that have developmental challenges or that need a bit of visual structure in their daily lives.




It features 4 visual prompting tools that are quick and easy to use:

Picture Schedules – to create sequencing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aacdevices.com/iprompt-looks-promising.php</link>
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		<title>Low Tech AAC Guidelines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a hot debate with a colleague about high/low tech I came up with guidelines for low-tech aac devices. In our &#8220;debate&#8221; she was insisting the low-tech meant non-electronic. I disagreed (rather loudly at a conference), arguing that low tech is really low cost. We did agree on the guidelines, check them out for yourself [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aacdevices.com/guidelines-to-low-tech-aac-solutions.php</link>
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		<title>Proloquo2 Cool!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the resident Tech Geek at my school, I was so excited when AssistiveWare released it&#8217;s new App for the iPhone &#38; iTouch. The cooler thing was I had just gotten an iTouch for Christmas, so I was ready to try it with very out of pocket money.
After downloading it I began checking out the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aacdevices.com/prolo-cool.php</link>
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		<title>Cyrano 2 Communicator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Cyrano 2 is a handheld augmentative communication device that has great potential, but lacks an easy interface for younger users to build expressive language. The device ships with a Windows Mobile PC OS and the interface pre-set for basic communication needs and can be quickly used right out of the box. The programming appears [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aacdevices.com/cyrano-2-communicator.php</link>
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