• Socialization and AT: What's Love Got to Do with It?

• Links to relevant topics on Coping.org

• PowerPoint Presentation

• Internet Resources for Presentation

Socialization and AT: What's Love Got to Do with It?

In an interview with James J. Messina, Ph.D., author and webmaster of www.coping.org, the Family Center for on Technology and Disability in its August 2005 newsletter discussed the socialization issues involved in the use of assistive technology. You can read this article at: http://www.fctd.info/resources/newsletters/displayNewsletter.php?newsletterID=10024 . It was this article which was the reason why this current presentation was prepared. This presentation was presented at the 2006 North Carolina Conference on Visual Impairment & Blindness: Social Skills: Getting Beyond Hello! http://www.ncaer.net/NCCVIB/2006/conference_index.htm

Links to relevant topics on Coping.org

Tools for Parents of Children with Disabilities and Special Needs: http://www.coping.org/specialneeds/coping.htm

• Bonding with your child: http://www.coping.org/specialneeds/normaliz.htm

• Lifelong Normalization: http://www.coping.org/specialneeds/normaliz.htm

• Handling Lifelong Grief and Loss Issues: http://www.coping.org/specialneeds/griefloss.htm

• Communicating with Children about their Special Needs: http://www.coping.org/specialneeds/children.htm

• Parental Advocacy: http://www.coping.org/specialneeds/advocacy.htm

Parenting Pathfinders: Tools for Raising Responsible Children: http://www.coping.org/parenting/contents.htm

• Parenting Tips for Activating Children's Self-esteem over the Life-span:  http://www.coping.org/parenting/4esteem.htm

• Parenting Pathfinders Track Structures for Children: http://www.coping.org/parenting/5tracking.htm

• Parenting Pathfinders Hug Children to Create a Healthy Bond: http://www.coping.org/parenting/6hugging.htm

• Parenting Pathfinders Formulate Behavioral Consequences to Encourage Personal Responsibility in Children: http://www.coping.org/parenting/7consequ.htm

• Parenting Pathfinders Negotiate to Advocate for Children's Rights: http://www.coping.org/parenting/9advocat.htm

• Parenting Pathfinders Discuss Issues With Feelings Oriented Communications: http://www.coping.org/parenting/10discuss.htm

Getting Parents Involved in Exceptional Education Process: http://www.coping.org/specialed/involve.htm

• The Coping.org Assistive Technology & Educational Adaptation Survey: http://www.coping.org/specialed/atform.htm

• Classroom Strategies for Inclusion of Students with Communications and Learning Disorders: http://www.coping.org/specialed/inclusion.htm

• Presentation: Inclusion of Students with Communications, Learning & Social Relating Disorders: http://www.coping.org/specialedpres/index.htm

PowerPoint Presentation

Click here to download or to view PowerPoint: Adapting Technology for a More Social Child Presentation

Internet Resources for Presentation

• Ablenet, Inc: http://www.ablenetinc.com/  
• Arc of the United States: http://www.thearc.org/
• AT for Blind Students: http://atto.buffalo.edu/registered/ATBasics/Populations/Blind/index.php
• Axistive Assistive Technology: http://www.axistive.com/
• Braille  American Foundation for the Blind – 2004 http://www.afb.org/section.asp?sectionid=6
• Braille Bug Site: http://www.afb.org/braillebug/
• Center for Computer Assistance for the Disabled Inc. (C-CAD): http://www.c-cad.org/
• Clicker 4, available from Crick Software: http://www.cricksoft.com/us/
• deaftv.net -website is focused on communication and video entertainment for deaf people: http://www.deaftv.net/
• Dolphin Computer Access: http://www.dolphincomputeraccess.com/index.htm
• Don Johnston Incorporated: http://www.donjohnston.com/
• Edutopia-George Lucas Foundation: Enabling Dreams: http://www.edutopia.org/php/article.php?id=Art_1241
• Exceptional Parent Magazine: http://www.eparent.com/
• Family Center for on Technology and Disability: http://www.fctd.info/  
• Freedom Scientific: http://www.freedomscientific.com/
• Georgia Project for Assistive Technology: http://coefaculty.valdosta.edu/spe/ATRB/Video_Tips.htm
• Listen up web: Specializing In Information For The Deaf And Hard Of Hearing: http://www.listen-up.org/
• Nextup home of Text Aloud a text to speech tool: http://www.nextup.com/
• NIDCD Fact Sheet: Cochlear Implants: http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/hearing/coch.asp
• Read Please Corporation: http://www.readplease.com/
• SPARKLE-Supporting Parent Access to Resources, Knowledge, Linkages, and Education: http://www.sparkle.usu.edu/

• TASH- Equity, Opportunity and Inclusion for People with Disabilities: http://www.tash.org/

• The TTY and relay Fact Sheet: http://www.temple.edu/instituteondisabilities/piat/faqs/tty.html

• United Cerebral Palsy (UCP): http://www.ucpa.org/