29 Aug: Piggy's AAC Phone

Making a movie of a PowerPoint story using sound files made with text to speech software. I have some movies of how to do it on YouTube. Look for my Tutorials Playlist. www.youtube.com/user/michaelbrianreed

Sound files from text

AAC: Saving Time in the Classroom: Part 1

We have put Bruce Baker's excellent lecture about core vocabulary on YouTube. It is in 6 parts. My YouTube username is michaelbrianreed if you want to see all the movies I've uploaded. Here's Part 1 of Bruce:

25 July: Lily Was Here - Mick and Katy Style

A nice piece from cousin Katy and uncle Mick:

AAC and Transition: Scope filming at CM

New movie uploaded to YouTube:

AAC Keys: Writing from Pathfinder to Computer

This is how I wrote my 1 Voice Teenagers 'Moving On Up' story.

My Pathfinder writes to any computer that has AAC Keys installed.

I connect my (old) Pathfinder to a laptop with a serial cable. Newer communication aids have USB and bluetooth. I'm buying a USB to Serial converter from eBay so I can write to our Mac PowerBook.

AAC Keys is a keyboard and mouse emulator offered as a free download from the AAC Institute:
http://www.aacinstitute.org/Resources/ProductsandServices/aackeys.html

3 - 5 July: Headlines Activity Weekend

Had a great time wall climbing, bridge building, rafting, and having fun in the pool and around the campfire. Headlines Teenagers' activity weekend was at the Pioneer Centre, Kidderminster. On Sunday I interviewed some friends about the weekend and about their talents for Shine Week, a UK national festival of young peoples' talents.

Here's my first wall climb:



Headlines supports children and young people with craniofacial conditions including Apert, Crouzon, Muenke, Pfeiffer and Saethre-Chotzen Syndromes. I have Apert Syndrome. http://www.headlines.org.uk

You can watch our rafting, rope bridge and campfire movies on YouTube. Search my username: michaelbrianreed