“In Other Words,” a new game designed for children and teens with autism, teaches figures of speech. Our popular “Verbal Behavior Technique” is renamed “MatchUp!”, runs on the web, and lets you customize it!
New LATKids project helps immerse children in language by combining synthetic speech, the web, and the world’s greatest works of literature.
Take ten minutes and watch the LATKids video. Meet LATKids director Bob Crisler, and some of the kids, parents and teachers we work with, and get a look at some of the technologies we’re exploring.
See how Claire Myers’ artistic vision comes to life in an extraordinary and inspiring way.
Watch this video to see how Claire paints with the aid of a “tracker,” and why Andy embraced 160-year old technology to help him use a computer.
We staged an adaptation of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” complete with period costumes. Take a look at some of the pictures from that evening, and download the script we used for the play.
L•A•T Kids is the nickname of the LifeShare Assistive Technology Project, a ministry of The LifeShare Foundation in Jackson, Mississippi. Its mission is to better the lives of children with disabilities through the use of technology.
L•A•T Kids offers for download all of the software and resources it develops, free of charge, and in Mississippi currently offers one-on-one consulting with children, parents, teachers and therapists, also free of charge.
If you need our help, please contact us.
Program Center
Speak for Yourself- Synthetic speech augmentative communications program for Windows™ computers. Icon-based, customizable, and free!
I AM Instant Messenger- A smart instant messenger featuring response prediction and user-programmable responses. Free for your use.
Kalon's Colors & Shapes- Designed for use by a child with cortical vision impairment, but appropriate for other applications too. Colored shapes appear, grow and shrink according to your settings. Free for your use.
In Other Words- Learn figures of speech (idioms).
MatchUp!- Associate objects with words.
The ZONE- Start your own free blog in our community of LATKids and friends!
Assistive Technology News
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Symposium brings latest technology to Alabama School for the Blind
People from across the state came to Talladega to participate in a technology symposium hosted by the Alabama School for the Blind.
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Keys to change
The humble keyboard is facing competition from touch and voice-recognition technology.
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A miracle convention for the disabled?
Fine words without actions are meaningless but actions usually only come about after fine words have been written - Victoria Brignell celebrates a new UN convention
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Faith in a nonverbal world
Autistic youth has a traditional bar mitzvah using nontraditional technology
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Grandfather builds Web browser for autistic boy
John LeSieur is in the software business, so he took particular interest when computers seemed mostly useless to his 6-year-old grandson, Zackary. The boy has autism, and the whirlwind of options presented by PCs so confounded him that he threw the mouse in frustration.
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Disabled Teens Get Grant For Online IT Training
Young people with disabilities are expected to get a helping hand with new online IT services thanks to national grant monies garnered by the Computing Technology Industry Association Educational Foundation.
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Making Assistive Technology Work at Libraries
While many libraries have assistive technology for the public, most report it’s not used very often since people don’t know how to use it. Our instructional program is comprehensive – taking people with no computer skills and teaching them to keyboard, to use the computer and to use the assistive technology programs.
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Ireland’s First Ever Assistive Technology Library
Ireland’s first every Electronic Assistive Technology web based library bank was launched May 15 by a consortium of groups who work with people with disabilities.
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Accessible play areas: Able-bodied and handicapped kids can share many playgrounds
When Robison Elementary School unveiled its new playground in April, a whole new world of activity opened up for Anthony Planck, a student. “He thinks they built it for him,” his mother, Jamie Planck, said in a telephone interview, “so he can play with the other kids.”
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Microsoft, DAISY Make Reading Easier for People With Print Disabilities
Microsoft Corp. has joined with industry and advocacy group leaders worldwide to launch new software that will make it easier for anyone to create documents and content that will be accessible for blind and print-disabled individuals.
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