Overlay Maker supports Classroom Suite

with a similar look and feel of the two products and a simple Make Overlay Wizard allow users to quickly make overlays to access curriculum activities. Overlay Maker also includes several Classroom Suite activities and tutorials featuring writing and math curriculum activities with overlays.

Templates for off-computer activities, based on work by Jo Meyer of SoftTouch, help students learn important concepts. Templates include game boards, Lotto cards, and dominoes.

Overlay Maker® 3 transforms the IntelliKeys keyboard into a curriculum access device, opening up a world that was previously closed to many students with special physical or cognitive needs. Overlay Maker allows users to create custom overlays in just minutes for individualized needs and greatly expands the capabilities of the basic keyboard.

The following simple yet flexible features empower educators to accommodate various range-of-motion and cognitive needs:

• Reduce input choices
• Group keys by color or location
• Add graphics to support comprehension
• Increase visual contrast by adjusting key size, shape, and color
• View keys as pictures, text, or both
• Motivate students to progress from switch scanning with switches to direct-select choices
• Program the keys, mouse keys, and switch-scanning content