QIAT Resource Bank - UDL Apps!

Have you been to the QIAT Resource Bank lately?  I was looking for a document and ran across this beautiful Placement of Core Apps Serving Learning for All!  Each of the three separate sections, Representation, Expression and Engagement, list apps in categories by student area of difficulty: LD reading, LD writing, LD executive functioning, physical, visual, hearing and communication.

If you're looking for educational app, I'd start here!  Thank you to Barbara Welsford, M.Ed., ATP, ADE for putting this together!

This is just one example of the excellent resources on the QIAT Resource Bank.  Check it out at http://indicators.knowbility.org/resource-bank.html

Gloves Translate Sign Language into Speech!

The winner of this year's Microsoft Imagine Cup in Sydney is a project called Enable Talk by the Ukrainian team, QuadSquad.  They've created gloves fitted with flex sensors, touch sensors, gyroscopes and accelerometers (as well as some solar cells to increase battery life).  The gloves can translate sign language into text that is spoken with a text-to-speech engine and connects to a smartphone via Bluetooth.  Wow!  Something we could only dream about just a decade ago is now a reality. 

The team got the idea after interacting with some hearing-impaired athletes at their school, and Enable Talk was born.  They hope their project will help a lot more people and I'm certain it will.  Congratulations to the QuadSquad from Ukraine!