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Barron Associates, Inc. (BAI) proposes to develop an affordable assistive technology in the form of a motorized joystick with position sensors and associated software that will permit the remediably disabled to operate computers, household appliances, machinery, powered wheelchairs, and other vehicles, with a minimum of fatigue. The system will adapt quickly and robustly to a wide variety of diffe ...

This research and development effort will produce two empirically-derived Web-based applications designed to build school and teacher capacity to improve student literacy in middle schools and high schools: 1)a School-Wide Literacy Audit and Planning Process incorporating research-based indicators of school practices that support literacy development; and 2)a Content- Area Literacy Professional De ...

An estimated 43 percent of all teachers in grades K-12 in public schools instruct at least one LEP or English language learner (ELL) student (Zehler et al., 2003). Most are mainstream teachers who instruct small numbers of ELLs and who have had very limited training in effective instruction of ELLs. The Phase I project goal is to develop the design parameters for an innovative technology-based tra ...

This Phase I application, prepared in response to Priority 2, seeks to develop a web-based, multimedia instructional product for educators to develop skills in promoting the pro-social skills of students with high functioning autism and Asperger’s syndrome, a group of students whose poor social skills pose a barrier to optimal school achievement for themselves and their classmates. During Phase ...

Teaching, as a profession, makes many demands upon teachers. In addition to the many other tasks that a teacher must perform everyday, every teacher must manage information from many and varied sources. Teachers must keep on top of lesson plans, assignments, assessments, rubrics, curriculum standards, Best Practices, student portfolios, parent emails, materials, directives, schedules, tests, and s ...

THE PURPOSE OF THIS RESEARCH PROJECT WILL BE TO TEST THE FEASIBILITY OF DEVELOPING A SCREEN ACCESS MANGER (SAM) UTILITY TO ASSIST VISUALLY IMPAIRED INDIVIDUALS IN ACCESSINGDIFFICULT TO USE OFF-THE-SHELF SOFTWARE FOR THE IBM PC, IBM AT, AND COMPATIBLES. THE PROJECT WILL FOCUS ON DETERMINING A METHODOLOGY (LOGIC) FOR AUTOMATICALLY LOCATING THE DIFFERENT NEARLY RANDOM VISUAL SCREEN FORMATS PRESENTED ...

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MILLIONS OF INDIVIDUALS IN THE UNITED STATES HAVE SEVERE LOWER BODY DISABILITIES. THESE PEOPLE ARE CUT OFF FROM MANYOF THE ACTIVITIES OF SOCIETY. IN NO AREA IS THIS MORE TRUETHAN IN THE AREA OF PHUSICAL RECREATION. THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED ARE LIMITED, AND WITH FEW EXCEPTION IS KAYAKING. AS AN UPPER BODY SPORT, IT OFFERS THOSE WITH LOWER BODY INJURIES NOT ONLY A CHANCE TO P ...

THE PROPOSED PRODUCT WILL BE A MICROCOMPUTER-BASED PROGRAM WHICH WILL ASSIST THE COGNITIVE REHABILITATION OF TRAUMATI CALLLY HEAD-INJURED ADOLESCENTS AND ADULTS. THE CORE OF THEPROGRAM WILL BE A REAL-LIFE, REAL-TIME DECISION SUPPORT AND PROBLEM-SOLVING SYSTEM SUITABLE FOR COMMERCIAL AND POPULAR DISTRIBUTION TO BOTH CLINICAL AND EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS DEDI-CATED TO WORKING WITH THE HEAD-INJURED. INIT ...

PROPOSES TO DETEMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF DEVELOPING THREE COMMERCIAL MULTIMEDIA INSTRUCTIONAL PACKAGES ON THE SUBJECT OF PROVIDING ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING (ADI) ASSISTANCE TO SEVERELY DISABLED AND/OR FRAIL ELDERLY INDIVIDUALS RESIDING IN THEIR OWN HOMES. TWO ARE TRAINING MATERIALS PACKAGES--ONEFOR TRAINING IN-HOME ADL ASSISTANCE PROVIDERS, ONE FOR TRAINING DISABLE OR ELDERLY USERS OF SUCH ASSIST ...