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ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY -  OTHER RESOURCES

A variety of resources are available for faculty, staff and students. A sampling of these resources have been included and organized below.

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• ADA home page (Link will open in new window)
• ADA Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG) for buildings and facilities (Link will open in new window)
• Adobe on-line conversion tool for PDFs (Link will open in new window) This tool will convert your PDF file to either html or text formats to allow for use with a screen reader.
• American Association of People with Disabilities (Link will open in new window)
• America's Literacy Directory (Link will open in new window)
• American Public Transportation Association (Link will open in new window) This site offers a searchable database of all public transportation authorities in the US on state and local levels.
• Association for Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD) (Link will open in new window)
• Attention Deficit Disorder Association (Link will open in new window)
• Bobby approved! (Link will open in new window)
• George Washington University HEATH Resource Center (Link will open in new window)
• A Guide to Disability Rights Laws (Link will open in new window)
• Idaho Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (Link will open in new window)
• Job Accommodation Network (JAN) (Link will open in new window)
• Learning Disabilities (LD) on-line (Link will open in new window)
• National Center for Learning Disabilities (Link will open in new window)
• National Council on Disability (Link will open in new window)
• Northeast ADA & IT Center (Link will open in new window)
• Office of Civil Rights (OCR) (Link will open in new window)
• Post-secondary Education Consortium Center on Deafness (Link will open in new window)
• Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic (RFB&D) (Link will open in new window)
• University of Washington DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology) Program (Link will open in new window)
• U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs (Link will open in new window)
• U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (Link will open in new window)
• Additional web resources put together by the University of Kansas and the University of Wisconsin. (Link will open in new window)
  
  Assistive technology product information All links will open in new windows. Close the window to return to this page.
  (Please note: this information is provided to inform students of some of their options for assistive technology. This is not an exhaustive list and Disability Services does not endorse these products. You should research the options to determine which, if any, of these products (or others) would assist you in your studies.)

• Abbyy Fine Reader (Link will open in new window)
• Dolphin Computer Access (Link will open in new window)
• Dragon Naturally Speaking by Nuance (Link will open in new window)
• DSpeech - Free Text-to-Speech (Link will open in new window)
• JAWS by Freedom Scientific (Link will open in new window)
• Enhanced Vision (Link will open in new window)
• Kurzweil Educational Systems, manufacturers of Kurzweil 1000 and Kurzweil 3000. (Link will open in new window)
• OmniPage by Nuance (Link will open in new window)
• Premier Assistive Technology (Link will open in new window)
• WYNN Literacy Software Solutions (Link will open in new window)
• ZoomText by AI Squared (Link will open in new window)

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The following links are resources that can be found within Idaho state. In some instances, you can search the web site to find your local resources.

• Idaho Council on Developmental Disabilities (Link will open in new window)
• Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Developmental Disabilities (Link will open in new window)
• Idaho Assistive Technology Project (Link will open in new window)
• Idaho Council for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (Link will open in new window)