Tahirih Bushey is a speech and language therapist who works with children who have autism. She describes herself as a "collector and recorder of good games for children with ASD". She blogs at Autism Games and also has maintains the Autism Games website.
The video clip below is one of a series about the Stage Play Games acting class for young people with autism:
Be sure to read Tahirih's post, "Why Games".
You can follow Tahirih on Twitter.
Eric Sailers is a speech and language pathologist and assisted technology specialist who explores new technologies that he's found useful in the schools. Below is Eric's demonstration of applications such as "I Write Words", Wikipanion, Preschool Adventure, Twitterific, Google Mobile, and the calendar.
To demonstrate the iPod Touch,Eric uses the Elmo document camera that projects onto a screen. Note that as Eric demonstrates the Twitterific application, , he navigates to a link to a blog of one of his colleagues, which highlights the way one school is using the Wii as an augmentive communication tool and also an assessment tool for occupational therapy.
Take some time to explore Eric's Speech-Language Pathology Sharing blog. It is full of great information!
Update: Here are two video clips Eric created to prepare for an interview as a finalist for the Cox Communication Innovation in Special Education award. In one of the videos, Eric discusses the EduSim application, a 3D multi-user virtual world platform and authoring toolkit intended for classroom interactive whiteboards.
Interactive Applications for Special Education: Wiimote Whiteboards and iPod Touch in Special Education, Part I
Wiimote Whiteboards and iPod Touch in Special Education, Part II
