Boardmaker Studio is the new kid on the Boardmaker block!  This session will demonstrate how Boardmaker Studio is an ideal tool for literacy learning.  It has a range of templates available, allowing teachers to quickly create a range of appropriate literacy activities to support a balanced literacy program – and works beautifully with Interactive Whiteboards for whole class activities too.  The use of Boardmaker Studio to support literacy development in Word Identification, Language comprehension and Print Processing will be shown – as well as benefits for teachers in the rapid production of resources. Come along and learn how this new tool can help you create accessible instructional literacy materials for all your students.

Jane Farrall has been working in the disability and assistive technology field for 20 years. She has extensive practical experience in both Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) and in teaching children and adults with disabilities to acquire literacy. Jane has worked for Yooralla Society of Victoria School and Adult services as both therapist and literacy teacher. She has also worked at the Microcomputer Applications Centre (now called ComTEC) in Victoria, Australia, as an assistive technology professional. She has completed a Masters in Special Education focusing on literacy acquisition in children and adults without speech. Jane is a former Chairperson of AGOSCI and is the founder and organiser of the Big Mouth Camp, a camp for school aged students using speech generating devices and their families.