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Products
The Switch Ensemble
Jon Adams, Assistive Technology Specialist at Massachusetts Hospital School has developed "Super Switch Ensemble," software that allows students with disabilities to create music via the computer. Through the utilization of assistive technology, this software is enabling students to express themselves in ways previously impossible to them.
For more information on this product, please visit www.switchintime.com or call
Phone: 978.486.9433 or email adams@switchintime.com.
The ARM
Exact Dynamics has created the ARM, a robot that assists people who have reduced arm and hand functions. The ARM helps to perform many daily living activities, including eating, drinking, lifting objects, and more. When mounted on an electric wheelchair, it aids in daily living tasks. For more information on this product, visit www.exactdynamics.nl.
WEB ReadingBar
Listen to, Magnify and Record Internet Web Pages.
Opening up the web for many that have low vision and other reading challenges.
Bellingham, WA Colligo Corp., an assistive technology solutions company, announces WEB ReadingBar". WEB ReadingBar is a cost effective and easy-to-use Internet enhancement using real Natural Voices" from AT&T. From children to seniors it advances Internet use for millions who suffer from many varieties of reading hurdles, such as: blindness*, visual impairments*, dyslexia, and the 94,000,000 adult Americans that show low basic literary skills Converge Magazine Jan 03.
Web ReadingBar is an attachment to Microsoft s Internet Explorer" that allows users to listen to and view magnified web pages. Other features allow the user to audibly record and save web pages, including over 70,000 books on the web. Any word document can be created then recorded for later use, for emails and other purposes. An online or offline screen reading clipboard purges web graphics. Synchronized visual and audible highlighted words offer substantial aids for those with dyslexia and literacy problems. Translation tools assist those learning English as a second language. The award winning Natural Voices technology from AT&T,
WEB ReadingBar for low vision and Colligo s other assistive technologies for the blind and visually impaired open a newfound information super highway at prices more cost effective than ever before. states Sean Ison, Vice- President of Colligo Corp.
Assistive technology from Colligo is appropriate for:
á Libraries and all Government agencies who are complying with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/508/508home.html
á Educational facilities complying with the No Child Left Behind Act, http://www.nochildleftbehind.gov/
á Consumers, in particular, seniors with reading and vision impairments
Many (seniors) experience deteriorating eyesight. It can be a very formidable barrier when using a computer, they attempt to get online, run into difficulty, and simply assume that the Internet is not for them." SeniorNet
Innovations of this nature that use readily available technology to improve information access, provide knowledge, freedom and power. Without these basic rights, the ability to self advocate becomes very difficult, therefore hindering independence, said Dr. Dean Stenehjem, Superintendent of the Washington State School for the Blind.
Introductory consumer pricing is $189. Multiple licensing is available.
For more information, please visit: www.colligo.us.
1400 King St., Suite E, Bellingham WA 98229