I think one of the most obvious points of this chapter was the section "Who Should Assess? Collaborative Team Assessment Approach". DUH! When it comes to making life changing decisions for a students, YES, more than one person should be involved. And hopefully at least some of them know what they are talking about!
I never thought about an issue with Boardmaker being that a student may not be able to ready. Granted, most of the blocks are just symbols, but a few have words for clarification. That would be difficult to look at if you had dyslexia or something. I like the labels opaque and transparent. It makes it easier to understand as a person who can see these icons with no problem.
The building sentences part is awesome! I always wondered how that would work on a device. Otherwise, you would just be putting nouns together with no context.
Reading that Tim uses his iPod Touch for his augmentative devices is incredible. That's how we should be designing these devices. Not bulky and single use. But small, concealable, and multifunctional devices. Apple has some incredible developers to come up with apps and programs that can revolutionize AT. I think that market needs to be tapped into more as opposed to outdated single-function devices.
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