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• Congratulations to the 2008 NCTI Technology in the Works Awardees!

  Posted on May 6th, 2008
  

  Five outstanding teams of researchers and vendors have been selected to examine the impact of innovative assistive technologies for students with special needs. This year’s winners represent a wide spectrum of research interests from instant messaging on augmentative communication devices to speech-enabled calculators for algebra students with learning disabilities. Learn more about the 2008 NCTI Technology in the Works Awardees.

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• SMART BrainGames: Learning from Neurofeedback in Video Games

  Posted on March 5th, 2008
  

  Recognizing the potential of neurofeedback as a tool for understanding the special symptoms of attention-related disabilities, SMART Braingames uses the latest neurofeedback technology advancements paired with a video game interface.

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• The Art of Collaboration Using Emotional Intelligence (E.I.): What Does Trust Mean?

  Posted on January 8th, 2008
  

  This research team shares keen insights into the importance of mutual trust to ensuring a productive collaboration. This team of emotionally and socially gifted professionals articulates what it means to build trust among new colleagues.

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• Documenting the Impact of Project SOLO on Writing Outcomes

  Posted on October 6th, 2006
  

  Researchers at the SEAT Center at Illinois State University, together with Don Johnston, Inc. and a 6-county coalition of special education programs, investigated the outcomes for students with learning and academic disabilities when tech-savvy teachers were given professional development and access to SOLO®, Don Johnston’s new state-of-the-art software.

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• IntelliTools: Asking the Right Question

  Posted on June 20th, 2006
  

  IntelliTools, Inc., represented by Arjan Khalsa and Ed Murphy, and David Chard pose a key question that no one has attempted to answer for students with physical disabilities: “How can software accurately detect mathematical automaticity?”

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• Project SOLO Leads to Unexpected Discoveries

  Posted on April 26th, 2006
  

  Karen Erickson at the University of North Carolina’s Center for Literacy & Disability Studies with Don Johnston Inc.’s President Ruth Ziolkowski and Product Manager Ben Johnston proposed a Tech in the Works project to research the benefits of Don Johnston’s SOLO software. The modest project took off—with surprises from subject recruitment through data analysis.

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• Signing Science Dictionary: Benefits to Students and Teachers

  Posted on March 29th, 2006
  

  Tech in the Works Shows Potential Effectiveness of the Signing Science Dictionary: For researcher Judy Vesel of TERC and her partners at Vcom3D, developer of the Signing Avatar® assistive technology, Tech in the Works-funded research demonstrated that a preliminary, 300-word version of the Signing Science Dictionary raised science achievement among students with hearing impairment.

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• My School Day Online: A Small Project with Big Collaborative Strength

  Posted on March 2nd, 2006
  

  With an NCTI Technology in the Works grant, the team of Matt Kaplowitz, Director of Technology and Content Innovation at Bridge Multimedia, and researcher Wendy Sapp of Visual Impairment Educational Services compared the ease of use for students and teachers of Bridge’s My School Day Online scheduler to ease of use of Microsoft’s Outlook scheduler.

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