When I was growing up, most books aimed at young female readers, seemed to only feature girls with perfect figures and the boys that fought over them. I had unrealistic expectations of the world because of [...]
In 1971 Ralph Gorin, of Stanford University's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, programmed a rudimentary artificial intelligence app that has become one of the world’s most widely used assistive technologies. Now, while Spell Check is not always perfect, [...]
When I was asked to review this book, I was hesitant as I don’t normally read non-fiction books – being forced to read them at University has put me off. But like a lot of people, [...]
As an Assistive Technology tutor, I’m familiar with most of the popular Mind Mapping programmes available for desktop Mac’s and PC’s. I’d never looked at using a mobile Mind Mapping app as I couldn’t imagine planning [...]
Nearly all courses expect you to submit written work that has been referenced, without it you may be accused of plagiarising (passing someone else’s work off as your own). Referencing is a time-consuming and complicated process [...]
Zotero handles the referencing so you can get on with the writing. When I was at University, I remember the euphoric feeling of getting to the end of my essay, hitting the word count and realising [...]
Jane Elson's second book doesn't disappoint and raises the profile Asperger’s in this heart felt tale of friendship, fear and flying. When I first started reading this book, after the first couple of pages I thought [...]