Computer Software

See also Computer Peripherals and Communication Aids

Information Sources

• Closing the Gap
  An internationally recognized source for information on innovative applications of computer technology in special education and rehabilitation. This site provides the opportunity to receive a free sample directory of products.
  
  
• Adaptive Hardware and Software Resources
  A listing from Equal Access Software and Information (EASI)

Software Developers

• Academic Software, Inc.(ASI)
  This is an educational research, development, and consulting firm that specializes in the field of assistive technology and computer access for children and adults with disabilities and for health professionals who work with people with disabilities.

• Ainsworth & Partners, Inc.
  This company offers keyboard training software for education and industry

• Apple K-12 Education Disability Resources
  This company strives to make computer technology that meets the special needs of children and adults with disabilities around the globe. It offers a rich selection of add-on accessibility products for its computers.

• Aurora Systems Inc.
  This company offers products for Learning Disabilities, Augmentative Communication, and Speech Disabilities.

• Bungalow Software
  This company offers treatment software for Speech/Language Pathologists and patients suffering from: aphasia (aphasic patients), cognitive impairment(s), CVA, TBI, CHI. This software provides age-appropriate (adult) instruction for remediation of reading and comprehension skills.

• Discover Technology
  This company is devoted to sharing information that is pertinent to persons with disabilities and those professionals who provide services. This site offers a Web Catalogue for ordering software and hardware, a comprehensive list of disability links, a disability pen pal directory, and a disability clip art archive.

• Don Johnston Incorporated
  This company offers software for students who struggle with reading and writing and for students with disabilities.

• Dragon Systems, Inc.
  This company is a leading worldwide supplier of speech and language technology, including award-winning speech recognition software.

• Educational Fontware
  Sells Specialty fonts that are of interest to Special Ed/OT/Title 1 teachers and parents. The font names are Ball-and-stick, Ball-and-stick with Rules, Braille 24, Braille 24 Hollow, Clocks, Dashes, Dashes with Rules, Emo-faces, Fingerletters, Lettersound Pictures, Morse Code, and POSTNET-16. Many mainline classroom teachers find them very useful.

• Education by Design
  This company publishes special needs and educational software -- including the Special Learning...Food for Thought program that has well-designed, simple learning activities that encompass basic language, math and science skills for learners with intellectual disabilities or early learners.

• Gus Communications, Inc.
  This company is one of the top providers of speech output and computer access software for persons with speech and/or physical disabilities. The software is available in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish (Latin American) versions.

• Intellitools
  This company provides adaptive computer products that are affordable and innovative -- to help people to learn, communicate, and live to their fullest potential.
   
• Judy Lynn Software
  This single switch software (for IBM PC and compatible computers) is designed specifically for children (9 Months - 5 Years cognitive age level) with developmental delays and limited motor skills.

• LAB Resources Catalog
  This company offers a variety of computer assistive technology products.

• Laureate Learning Systems
  This company publishes computer software for special education and people with special needs. Its concentrations include software for language development and language disorders, for cognitive development and cognitive remediation, and for reading in special education settings and for children at risk for reading failure.

• Little Fingers Software
  This company offers shareware lessons providing specific focus on basic skills taught in grades K-5.

• Lorien Systems
  This company offers software (textHELP) for those with reading and writing difficulties.

• Millennium Software
  This individual is the maker of Labeling_Tutor, a program made to specifically help children with autism (and other learning disabilities) learn to associate written words and sounds with anything one can depict in a picture.

• Parrot Software
  This company produces computer programs for people with cognitive, language, and memory disorders and professionals involved in the rehabilitation process.

• RJ Cooper & Associates
  This company makes products for persons with special needs, including special software and hardware adaptations for persons with very special needs.

• Serious Signing
  This software program from Awe-Struck Books provides a series of HyperStudio stacks that will teach you how to communicate with a hearing impaired family member or friend. It was written by a sign language instructor and interpreter and the presented lessons will give you all the tools to communicate in sign language.

• SofDesign
  This company offers programs to help individuals with Dyslexia.

• Windmill Works
  This company offers educational software specifically designed for deaf and hard of hearing students (with a visual rather than auditory emphasis).