Bookshare- A Resource for Students with Print Disabilities

If you are parent of a child with a print disability or a teacher with students with print disabilities in your classroom you will want to check out Bookshare.  Bookshare is the world’s largest online digital library which is available for FREE for students and adults who have a print disability.  There are over 1/2 a million book titles in the library including most textbooks found in schools. So for students who qualify, this means that their textbooks or books they are reading in class (oh, let’s say a book such Charlotte’s Web) as  can be downloaded directly onto a computer or a device, and using a reader (super easy to download the app on the iPad) have the words read directly

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So You Think You Can Draw…..

Years ago my youngest daughter was taking piano lessons. On the wall above the piano at her teacher’s home hung a poster that read “If you can talk, you can sing. If you can walk, you can dance”.  I love that quote.  Every week while waiting for her lesson to end, I read that quote.  It became kind of my mantra for the upcoming week.  Just a reminder to throw caution to the wind and try something new regardless of what others think.  Well, following the “if you can talk, you can sing”  theme, how about  “if you can write, you can draw”.  Humm……..  I am so envious of artists.  Really, I am.  I so wish I had an ounce

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