XALTS New and Exciting Speech APP Proposal

Hi Everyone,
Click on the link below and find out what someone is doing to make communication apps accessible to everyone.  Developing a web-based free speech app that can be used on any device not just ipods.
Enjoy!!!

Wheelchair

This article makes me so mad because this is so bad. There should be handicap parking stalls available whether you need them for having cancer and needing to park close to the entrance or having a wheelchair all sorts of people have them for all sorts of different things.  And it shouldn't matter if people use them or not they should still be there.

Handicapped parking stalls rare in WSD

Handicapped parking stalls rare in WSD

Turbo Type

I found this really cool word prediction program that you can access for free on the internet. If you would like to buy it, it only costs 20 dollars. It's not as good as the word prediciton software that I talked about in my first post, but it's good enough, and it's nice and cheap. Here is the link:

http://www.easytousetools.com/turbo_type/

You can only use it for three hours at a time if you don't want to buy it. It is easy to restart when your 3 hours are up.

See you later!

Tooner

GAMES!!!!

have you ever wanted to play games  on the computer but you have limited mobility and you don't know what ones are accessible???  Here are some that I have found are good:
- They're mostly on Facebook but some of them are on other things too.
**Fashion World (a game where you get to sell your own clothes virtually).
***FarmVille (a game where you get to grow your own farm.)
****FrontierVille (a game where you get to make your own Frontier Town in the Old West).
*****Happy Pets (a game where you get to take care of your own virtual pets (cats and dogs and other kinds of animals).
If you have any other games that you know of please comment me back I would love to hear about other games that you play if you have limited mobility.
HAVE A GREAT DAY!

Certain Proof: A Question of Worth - Trailer

Certain Proof

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This video got me going. I think that when some people see a wheelchair they freak out.  It's four wheels and then they go "what do I do..." ahhhh! It's a monster! this video is a movie of a boy with cerebral palsy and his mom.  She was saying that people think that he doesn't know anything that he is doing because is non verbal. i think it is really wrong. I'm trying to be nice here. i think Communication not always verbal.
Some people in my life have done that to me too.  Even though I am verbal and I do talk (a lot):)  Some people think that I don't know anything about death and dying.  I work in a personal care home.  One day I was sitting with someone that was dying and someone asked my worker "Does she know what's going on??"  I hate that "DOES SHE..."?  "Do I..."?  Would be better.  But still, I think that is really the wrong question to ask.  Because why would I be sitting there for a long time with someone if I didn't know what was going on??
It's so hard to find people that will treat you normally.  It's like they have to treat you differently because you're in a wheelchair and you "don't know what's going on".  In the video it also says that "He shouldn't be in a real-life classroom (but a special one)" and I remember very distinctly when I was in school them telling me that I couldn't go to university and I went. 
I believe in special programming but you don't have to take them out of the classroom but you can just do ability appropriate activities with them in the same class as all the other kids.  And if they have to go out for something that's fine.  I don't think they should be separated.