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DISABILITY SUPPORT EXPERIENCE 

WORK EXPERIENCE

Adaptive Technology Specialist
Disability Support Services at Dominican University, River Forest, IL • Spring 2009
  • Oversaw the implementation of academic accommodations, with regards to adaptive/assistive technology for students with disabilities, including grant and technology research.
  • Provided training in the use of Dragon Natural Speaking, Inspiration and Kurzweil.  
  • Responsible for electronic file management and maintained the DSS web pages.
  • Tech Expo 2009: Invited vendors, presented and coordinated the DSS presentation to promote the use of Universally Designed applications on campus.​


UNIVERSAL DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY

​Research Papers

Accessibility of Digital Libraries: Regards To People With Disabilities: Paper (Digital Library Class)

Faculty Training Proposal Project: Center For Teaching & Learning Excellence: Faculty Training In Learning Styles & Universal Design (Leadership Class)

Experience with Universally Desgined Application​  

SOFTWARE

​HARDWARE

APPLICATIONS FOR WINDOWS & MACINTOSH
• Kurzweil 3000 -Text-to-speech application that has a multi-sensory approach reading, writing and learning.
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• Dragon Natural Speaking - Speech-to-text application. In other words a dictation application. 

• Inspiration - Graphic Organizer

• Co:Writer- by Don Johnson. A writing program with word prediction, speech recognition and language support.



​IOS READING APPS
• Read2Go • vBookz PDF Voice Reader • Learning Ally • Easy Reader by Dolphin • Voice Dream • SeeAI

IOS WRITING APPS
• Co:Writer • Kurzweil 3000

IOS AUDIO RECORDING APPS
• Voice Memos • Voice Recorder Pro • AudioNote

​ORIGANZING APPS
• Inspiration  •  Priority Matrix

MAC COMPUTERS, iPADS & iPHONES
Mac OS & IOS Accessibility - Text-to-speech • Speech-to-text • AssistiveTouch • VoiceOver 

OTHER DEVICES
Digital Voice Recorders • Speaking Calculator 
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