Key Term Website Resources

Alternative keyboards

• Alternative Keyboard FAQ http://www.tifaq.com/keyboards.html
  
• Glossary of Adaptive Technologies http://www.utoronto.ca/atrc/reference/tech/altkey.html
  
• Alternative Keyboards http://www.infinitec.org/learn/learningaboutat/ATYTT/altkeyboards.htm

Assistive technology

• AbleData http://www.abledata.com/
  
• Assistive Technology: Enabling Dreams http://www.edutopia.org/php/article.php?id=Art_1241&key=137
  
• Family Guide to Assistive Technology http://www.pluk.org/AT1.html
  
• Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Association of North America http://www.resna.org/

Closed-circuit television (CCTV)

• Closed-circuit television, from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-circuit_television
  
• Video magnifiers, from the American Foundation for the Blind http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?SectionID=4&TopicID=31&DocumentID=221
  
• Closed-circuit television, from the Museum of Broadcast Communications http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/C/htmlC/closedcircui/closedcircui.htm

Disability

• Disability Info http://www.disabilityinfo.gov/digov-public/public/DisplayPage.do%3fparentFolderId=500
  
• Disability Resources Monthly http://www.disabilityresources.org/index.html
  
• The National Organization on Disability http://www.nod.org/
  
• Disability World http://www.disabilityworld.org/

FM amplification system

• Classroom Sound Field Systems http://www.hearingresearch.org/Dr.Ross/classroom_sound_field_systems.htm

Inclusion

• Inclusion Press http://www.inclusion.com/
  
• The Inclusion Network http://www.inclusion.org/inclusion/htdocs/index2.html
  
• Parents for Inclusion http://www.parentsforinclusion.org/
  
• Inclusion Research Institute http://www.inclusionresearch.org/

Joystick

• Joystick, from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joystick
  
• How Joysticks Work http://computer.howstuffworks.com/joystick.htm
  
• Alternative Pointing Devices http://www.gawds.org/show.php?contentid=98

Mainstreaming

• Inclusive Settings http://ericec.org/faq/incluson.html

Optical character recognition (OCR)

• Optical character recognition, from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition
  
• Optical character recognition/reading software http://www.utoronto.ca/atrc/reference/tech/ocr.html

Screen readers

• Screen Reader Simulation http://www.webaim.org/simulations/screenreader
  
• Screen reader, from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_reader
  
• Alternative Web Browsing http://www.w3.org/WAI/References/Browsing

Sensory disabilities

• Sensory Disabilities Resources http://www.wapd.org/links/Sensory_Disabilities/

Switches

• Adaptive Switch Labs http://www.asl-inc.com/

Universal design

• Universal Design Education Online http://www.udeducation.org/
  
• Universal Design Network http://www.universaldesign.net/
  
• Universal Design for Learning http://www.cast.org/

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