AT´s Recommended Web Site Links
The TARC Assistive Technology (AT) program has assembled a collection of helpful links to Third Party Web Sites*. These web sites were selected as having fun and useful games, information, or other resources for children or adults and their families. This collection was assembled from suggestions by staff, persons receiving services, families, and friends of TARC. Please Enjoy.
- Arcess.com Accessible Games Lab - http://www.arcess.com/index.htm
- Arcess.com is an online Accessible Games Lab. Here you are be able to play with snippets from our upcoming games, and provide feedback on accessibility issues. Our ultimate goal is for each game to be universally accessible - playable as single switch games but designed to be enjoyed by players with a very wide range of ages, languages and abilities.
- Single Switch Online Dice - http://www.arcess.com/dice.cfm
- Baby Games Online - http://www.BabyGamer.com
- Free fun online computer games for infants and toddlers.
- Baby-Place Children's Games - http://www.baby-place.com/games.php
- A section of home-made games for small children. These kid-tested games teach numbers, math, colors, hand-eye coordination and help children get used to computer use as well.
- BBC CBBC Switch Accessible Games - http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/games/switch/
- Switches are specialized items of hardware which enable children, whose motor disabilities prevent them from using a mouse, to access the computer. There is an option to use one or two Switches and the Switches use 'scanning', which allows your child to choose items on the screen. These six CBBC games have been re-versioned for children who use Switch technology. You can play more Switch games in CBeebies plus find out more about Switch technology and how to set up your Switch interface in CBeebies Grown-ups.
- BBC CBeeBies - http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/
- CBeebies is the BBC's offering for young children, featuring new and repeated high-quality, largely UK-produced content to educate and entertain our youngest audiences.
- TARC recommended games from the cbeebies site include:
- Boohbah - http://www.boohbah.tv/
- BookPALS Storyline Online - http://www.storylineonline.net/
- The Screen Actors Guild Foundation is proud to bring you Storyline Online, an on-line streaming video program featuring SAG members reading children's books aloud! Each book includes accompanying activities and lesson ideas.
- Clifford the Big Red Dog at PBSKids - http://pbskids.org/clifford/index-brd-flash.html
- The PBS-Kids (http://pbskids.org) home page for everyone's favorite Big Red Dog… Clifford. Play games, print coloring pages, and more.
- The Cray Machine at www.zefrank.com - http://www.zefrank.com/snm/index.html
- A cute little program with interactive graphic effects when typing on the keyboard.
- Cricketweb -http://www.crickweb.co.uk/
- collection of Educational resources, games, and web links. Suitable for use at school and for parents/children at home.
Free interactive resources and activities for Foundation Stage, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. Subjects including:
Maths, English, Science, History, Geography, R.E., D.T., I.C.T, French and Spanish.
- Disney
Online games, video games, party games, kids games and activities from Disney.
- Fisher-Price Online Games and Activities - http://www.fisher-price.com/us/fun/games/
- Online games and learning activities are a great way to spend quality time with your child. Have fun with these online activities, and remember: whether your child is an infant, toddler or preschooler, it's important to let him learn at his own pace!
- TARC Selected Favorites include:
- Fun Baby Games Online - http://www.fun-baby-games-online.com/
- TARC Selected Favorites include
- Farm Animals. Peek-a-Boo. Babies love farm animals! Simply press the space bar and a farm animal will pop up and delight your young one!
- Hello Baby! Do you notice how your baby loves looking at other babies? Your baby will be enthralled when she sees these little 'uns! Simply press the space bar and a cute baby will pop up and delight your young one!
- Fun Brain - http://www.funbrain.com/
- Gamco Educational Software - http://www.gamco.com/
- Educators and students alike love Gamco's combination of instruction and motivation.
- GameVance - http://www.gamevance.com/
- Harcourt School Publishers - http://www.harcourtschool.com/
- Help Kidz Learn - http://www.helpkidzlearn.com/
- Welcome to HelpKidzLearn, a web site full of free software and resources from Inclusive Technology.
- Hiyah.net - http://www.hiyah.net/
- Welcome to Hiyah.net. My name is Sara. I have 2 boys who both showed an interest in the computer, but didn't know how to use the mouse or keyboard. Since there was nothing on the market to meet their needs, I developed a series of educational computer software programs that they could operate on their own by simply pressing the spacebar. I am making these programs available at no charge to any parent or teacher who thinks they may be able to use them.
- http://www.Hihah.net/software.html: This educational software is made for children 18 months to 4 years of age (or higher for children struggling with language delays due to autism or other causes).
- Inclusive Technology - http://www.inclusive.co.uk/index.shtml
- Jackson Pollock - http://www.jacksonpollock.org/
- Painting page by Miltos Manetas, original design by Stamen.
- Instructions - Move mouse over the web page to paint. Click left button to change colors. Press any key on the keyboard to clear the page and start over.
- Kiddies Games - http://www.kiddiesgames.com/en/baby_games.php
- Fun, educational computer games for babies, toddlers, and kids.
- KidsHealth - http://kidshealth.org/
- KidsHealth is the largest and most-visited site on the Web providing doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence.
- Pages for Parents, Kids, and Teens.
- KneeBouncers - http://www.kneebouncers.com/
- Kneebouncers is a whole lotta fun. Games and activities to stimulate your baby or toddler. Colorful animated graphics combined with great sound effects, excite and entertain the ittiest of the bittiest. Kneebouncers is also educational. Your budding genius may even start to understand the cause and effect principle, but mostly they will just squeal with delight. So if you have a little one clamoring for the keyboard, plop them on your knee and let the bouncing begin!
- Lara's Free Online Baby Games - http://www.gizdic.com/freegames/youngest.htm
- Light Up Your Brain - http://lightupyourbrain.com/
- LiteracyCenter.Net (http://www.literacycenter.net) - The Early Childhood Education Network
- MagicKeys Children's StoryBooks Online - http://www.magickeys.com/books
- Illustrated children's stories for kids of all ages: Young Children, Older Children, Young Adults.
- Take special note of their list of "Award Winning Links" at http://www.magickeys.com/books/links.html. The links on this page have received their "Storybooks Award" because they have special appeal due to story creativity, specialized content, educational information, fun activities, or are just downright charming.
- MightyBook - http://www.mightybook.com/
- Books. Music. Cartoons. Games. Jokes.
When you subscribe to MightyBook.com, your children get more than 500 great stories, songs, puzzles and games, presented in a safe secure environment. There’s no email, no chat, no social networking, no outbound links, no advertising. Just great fun that teaches kids to read.
- Monterey Bay Aquarium - http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/
- MouseTrial Autism Software - http://www.mousetrial.com/index.html.
- MouseTrial's autism software is a collection of fun exercises and games designed for children with autistic spectrum disorders and other special needs. The exercises are based on the method of discrete trial therapy which is a major component of ABA and related treatment programs. You can play MouseTrial online , or get it on CD or download it.
- National Geographic Kids - http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/
- Games, Animals, Photos, Stories and More.
- Northern Grid For Learning - SENSwitcher - http://www.northerngrid.org/ngflwebsite/sen/Intro.htm
- SENSwitcher is a suite of programs designed to help teach early ICT skills to people with profound and multiple learning difficulties, those who need to develop skills with assistive input devices and very young children new to computers. It is, we believe the first time anyone anywhere has developed an online switch enabled application which targets ICT skills from purely experiential through cause and effect, switch building, timed activation, targeting and row scanning.
- Nick Jr - http://www.nicjr.com/
- Papunet Games - http://papunet.net/games/
- A selection of accessible games, in the following broad categories puzzle, dominoes, memory games, games of precision, sudoku, word exercises, drawing exercises, and first games.
- Rader's NumberNet.com - http://www.numbernut.com/index.html
- This site is all about math.
- Roy the Zebra - http://www.roythezebra.com/
- The site is home to a package of interactive games, stories and resources that have been developed to help emerging readers learn to read. The site can be used at school or at home. It's one of the most comprehensive interactive literacy resources on the net that is freely accessible. No area of the site is password protected.
- TARC favorite areas include:
- SEN Teacher - http://www.senteacher.org/
- SEN Teacher provides cost-free teaching & learning resources for students with special needs and learning disabilities. All the resources available or listed here are free for use in schools, colleges and at home.
- Shockwave Kids Games: Where You're Free to Play - http://www.shockware.com/kids.jsp
- "We've been giving our large loyal audience its daily dose of online interactive fun since 1998, and Shockwave became a part of Viacom's MTV Networks in 2006. We've got more than 450 games, with new ones added each week. Games to get your heart pumping, games to get your brain buzzing, or games to help you unwind. Come play with us and see for yourself!"
- Starfall: Learn to Read - http://www.starfall.com/
- Teachers around the world use Starfall.com and Starfall high-quality educational products as an inexpensive way to make the classroom more fun and inspire a love of reading and writing. Parents use Starfall to prepare their children for school, and to support them once they are there. Starfall is an educational alternative to other entertainment choices for children.
- The Stonington Free Library - http://www.stoningtonfreelibrary.org/index.html
- Story Place: The Children's Digital Library - http://www.storyplace.org/storyplace.asp
- Welcome to StoryPlace, the ultimate Children's Digital Library. Explore our pages full of stories and activities for children young and old.
- TARC Selected Favorites from the Pre-school story collection:
- Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs - http://teachinglearnerswithmultipleneeds.blogspot.com/
- Resources and ideas for teachers of learners with severe, profound, intensive, significant, complex or multiple special needs.
- The Children's University of Manchester - http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/
- Interactive, online learning for key stage 2 from The University of Manchester. The Children's University of Manchester has been designed to support KS2 (7-11) teaching and learning both in the classroom and at home. The resources are aligned to the KS2 National Curriculum and QCA schemes of work and include a combination of interactive learning materials, downloadable resources, educational games and videos. The resources can be used for whole class teaching with a whiteboard and also for group, individual and homework sessions.
- Literacy - http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/interactives/literacy/wordclasses/
- The First Grade Backpack - http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Tower/1217/grade1.html
- The Kidz Page - http://www.thekidspage.com/index.html
- Welcome to theKidzpage.com free web site for kids! Hundreds of free kids games, puzzles, activities, coloring pages, clip art & more for children, parents, teachers... Kids of all ages are invited to play! We also have free online games, puzzles and kids printables in the kids games & activities pages! New educational and fun games, activities and printables added on a regular basis for kids, schools and family fun.
- Free Kids Games - http://www.thekidzpage.com/freekidsgames/index.htm
- TARC Suggested Favorite Games:
- TVO Kids - http://www.tvokids.com/
- Up To Ten: The fun place to learn online - http://www.uptoten.com/
- UpToTen has been building prize-winning early-learning games and activities since 1999. Your child will love the reassuring, friendly world that our unique games inhabit. S/he will have enormous fun whilst building independence on the computer.
- Walks with Red Dog - http://www.backyardnature.net/r/reddog00.htm
- Online short stories remembering a certain farm dog. by naturalist Jim Conrad.
- Woodlands Junior School - http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/
- ZAC Browser - http://www.zacbrowser.com/
- ZAC is the first web browser developed specifically for children with autism, and autism spectrum disorders such as Asperger syndrome, pervasive developmental disorders (PDD), and PDD-NOS. We have made this browser for the children - for their enjoyment, enrichment, and freedom. Children touch it, use it, play it, interact with it, and experience independence through ZAC.
Note: TARC is providing these links as an additional resource. These are a collection of third party web sites that our staff, families, and agency friends have found useful. These links are presenting them in hopes that some of them might prove helpful for others. TARC does attempt to verify the accuracy of these links. TARC will remove or correct outdated links, and will review and add new links as they are suggested. If you have a correction, or new suggestions, please send an email to the TARC webmaster
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Disclaimer: Please note that TARC does not own, has no control over, and can not be held responsible for the content of these third party sites. TARC does NOT endorse any of these sites or their products. As these third party sites are not part of TARC, and the content of these sites is NOT controlled by TARC, TARC may NOT be held responsible for the content of these sites (including any software or other resources that might be downloaded from those sites). Any questions or complaints about the contents of these sites should be directed to the organizations that host those sites.
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