In collaboration with Aboriginal author Karen Reys, we have adapted her unique story book Gandjau Wangai to produce an accessible CD-ROM that all children can enjoy. The story title means “Hungry Snake” and the story line follows the snake’s interaction with other Australian animals as it seeks something to eat.

Karen has been involved in extensive research to revive the Badjala language, the traditional language of Aboriginals from Fraser Island, QLD.

• Story CD ROM
  • Karen Reys’ story, Gandjau Wangai, read in both Badjala language and English
  • Information and real photographs of the animal characters
  • Information about the author and her work
  • A glossary of the Badjala language
  • Interactive quizzes
  • Access by mouse, IntelliKeys or switch
  • A copy of Karen’s book included with every CD
• HandiActivities CD-ROM
  • 20 interactive writing, reading, word study and mathematics activities
  • Fully accessible
• Gandjau Wangai Story Book
  • Full colour copy of Gandjau Wangai.

A demonstration of how software such as IntelliPics Studio, IntelliTalk II and IntelliMathics can be used to develop curriculum materials relevant to students needs and abilities.

These products are well-suited to the inclusive classroom as they can be fully accessed by mouse and keyboard users as well as providing special needs access through IntelliKeys and switches.

This one hour demonstration is suited to staff meetings, network meetings, PD days or after school sessions and is free to schools in the metro area.

All PD Courses are available at your site or ours, for both Metro and Country areas. Contact us on (08) 9458-1574 or 9295-6551 for further information.

Coming Soon!

Visit our web site on

www.handsonconcepts.com

• View our range of ready-made inclusive classroom resources.
• Check our current range of training dates.
• Read about current projects.
• Link to related sites including the new Australian Activity Exchange where you can download activities created by Aussie teachers.
• Download our 2002 catalogue.

About Us

Alison Jarred and Nadja Roelofs are teachers with many years experience in Early Childhood, Primary and Special Needs Education and as professional development providers for the Curriculum Development Branch, Education Department of Western Australia.

Their company, Hands On Concepts, was formed in 1994 when they began creating and publishing resources for other teachers.

Alison and Nadja are curriculum authors who have been published internationally and nationally through companies such as IntelliTools Inc (USA), Inclusive Technology (UK), McGraw-Hill Book Co. (AUST) and Scholastic Australia. Their focus has been the design of accessible software resources for the inclusive classroom.

In 1997-9 they were invited to design a progression of emergent literacy resources to be used for research into the use of alternative keyboards in the inclusive early childhood classroom. This research was conducted across the USA and governed by the federal body, the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development. The results of this research was outstanding and their work has since been compiled into the resource, IntelliTools Reading:Balanced Literacy. This software resource was recently awarded the prestigious Technology and Learning Software Award for Excellence.

Alison and Nadja have presented at many conferences and provided professional development across the USA, UK, New Zealand and Australia. Some of the major conferences include: Closing the Gap (USA), BETT (UK), World Computers in Education Conference (UK), Australian Computers in Education Conference , ARATA and ALEA. In 1999 they were keynote speakers at the IntelliTools conference, San Francisco.