[laptop-accessibility] [support-gang] Fwd: suggestions for children with disabilities?

[Mel Chua]

Moving this discussion to the accessibility mailing list 
(support-gangers, please make your suggestions there - no reason for 
this to be private!)

There are some projects under development for kids with special needs - 
see Matt Barkau, Lisa Beal, and Tony Anderson's 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/FreeIconToSpeech.

One thing we wanted to do at ILXO this summer but didn't get to is 
testing Activities for accessiblity-friendliness - see 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Accessibility for a pretty messy stub. 
Where is the information request coming from? Maybe they could work with 
volunteers to review Activities and build that list.

-Mel

Lisa Caroline Lewis wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Adam Holt wrote:
>
>   
>>   Subject:  	suggestions for children with disabilities
>> Date: 	Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:27:43 -0400
>> From: 	Reuben K. Caron <reuben at laptop.org>
>> To: 	devel at lists.laptop.org
>> CC: 	Julia Reynolds <julia at laptop.org>
>>
>> Are there any suggestions or activities that address the needs of children 
>> with disabilities?  For instance, at the moment we have a request for 
>> assistance with students with  visual impairments.
>>     
>
> Have people talked with any organizations that work with assistive
> technology for children?  The only organization that pops into my mind
> offhand is the Boston Center for Independent Living, but I don't know to
> what degree they deal with children's issues.  They should, however, be
> able to point to other organizations.  I wonder if Children's Hospital
> would also know of the right sort of organizations to ask.  Just a
> thought.
>
> - Lisa
>
>
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