Thursday, 31 October 2013

Library Thursday: 31st October 2013

Ability Links NSW Newsletter, Issue #1, October 2013
NSW Department of Family and Community Services
Ability Links NSW (ALNSW) is a new way to support people with disability, their families and carers as part of the ongoing reforms of the disability service system in NSW. The NSW Government has committed $28.7 million per year to the ALNSW program. When fully established, ALNSW will comprise a network of 248 Ability Links Coordinators, known as Linkers, across the state, including 27 Aboriginal Linkers ...

Breadmakers (2007)
A film revealing intricate social relationships that operate in a community of workers with intellectual/developmental disabilities making a variety of organic breads for daily delivery to shops in Edinburgh. This short documentary was made by Yasmin Fedda and can be viewed at the Scottish Documentary Institute website.

Touch-Words
Special iApps, for APple iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch
$1.99 (US, Canada, Australia), $1.49 (UK), 1.79 € (Euro)

Touch-Words offers a visual-based approach to help children who are at the first stage of learning to talk and to read. It contains resources from the See and Learn Language and Reading program of activities devised and published by Down Syndrome Education International.

Specifically designed for children who may have difficulty learning to talk and to read, such as those with Down syndrome, and other visual learners.

Cause and effect: touch the picture to see and hear the word.

Includes 28 pictures from See and Learn First Word Pictures, with matching written and spoken words.

Includes text and clearly-spoken words.

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