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Teaching & Learning Centre
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Committed to enhancing the quality of teaching and learning at the University of Calgary. Provides leadership and support for integrating technology into the learning process. Web site includes information on programs and workshops, educational resources, services and projects.
- Source: Teaching & Learning Centre
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Workplace strategies - job analysis
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Identifies the purpose of a job analysis and its steps. Gives examples of assistive/adaptive technology. Link requires PDF reader.
- Source: EmployAbilities
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VoicePrint
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Offers a national broadcast reading service that provides news and information in audio format for the benefit of Canadians with a vision impairment or print restrictions.
- Source: VoicePrint
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Adaptech Research Network
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Provides information to assist in decision making that ensures that new policies, software, and hardware reflect the needs and concerns of university students with disabilities.
- Source: Adaptech Research Network
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Seniors: breaking down the barriers to independence
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Presents statistics illustrating the aging of the Canadian population. Focuses on the health and safety consequences for those seniors living in their own home. Suggests simple modifications that can be made to prevent hot water burns, and falls in the home in general, and in the bathroom, in particular.
- Source: Canadian Health Network (CHN)
- From: Magazine feature of the month: archives
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What is an aid to daily living (ADL)?
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Explains aids to daily living (ADLs) are devices that assist people with disabilities in their daily activities. Suggests government and non-profit organizations can provide funding if certain requirements are met. Lists the provincial and territorial ADL funding programs. Created for CHN by the Living with Disabilities Affiliate.
- Source: Canadian Health Network (CHN)
- From: FAQs: living with disabilities
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Canadian Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists
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Supports the professional needs, interests and development of speech-language pathologists and audiologists. Advocates the interests of people who require speech, language and hearing services.
- Source: Canadian Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists (CASLPA)
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SlideTalk
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Promotes a communications aid in the form of a computerized slide show for people with disabilities who can only process a limited amount of information at one viewing. Addresses the need for full screen scanning by displaying only one image on the screen at a time. Allows users to play and create slide shows.
- Source: Easter Seals New Brunswick
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Directory for accessibility: make your business or organization accessible to employees and customers with disabilities
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Lists service providers that can help increase accessibility for employees and customers with disabilities. Searchable database of service providers, consultants and community organizations in Ontario. Includes listings for architects, consultants for barrier-free design, assistive technology, training, assessment, employment accommodation, and more.
- Source: Accessibility Directorate of Ontario
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Library of papers
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Provides on-line links to publications from the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC). Covers a variety of technological issues applicable to people with disabilities.
- Source: Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC)
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