OERs for Intellectual Disability and Inclusion (Further Course)

This page lists all the Open Educational Resources (OERs) that were created for the further course Intellectual Disability and Inclusion, which was created by the Dublin Institute of Technology.

These OERs are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC-BY 4.0). Simply put, this licence allows you to share, adapt and redistribute the content of the OERs, provided that you correctly attribute the original creators of these resources (Dublin Institute of Technologies). If you are not familiar with this licence, please read it before reusing these OERs.

The entire content of the course is stored as a set of OERs in a Google Drive folder, except for the videos, which can be downloaded from a dedicated channel on Vimeo. Below is a breakdown of all the OERs.

Week 1

OER folder for week 1.

• Activities that People with Intellectual Disability enjoy: ODF document that invites learners to read Chapter Two – The views and experiences of people with intellectual disabilities in the NDA “Independent and Community Living : Focus Group Consultation Report”. (This NDA report is not an OER.)
• Assistive Technology and Good Design (ODF document).
• Assistive Technology for People with Intellectual Disability (ODF document).
• Assistive Technology (ODF document).
• Week 1 Design Challenge 1 (ODF document).
• Week 1 Reflection (ODF document).
• Week 1 Summary (ODF document).
• Week 1 Welcome (ODF document).
• What Is Intellectual Disability? (ODF document).

Week 2

OER folder for week 2.

• How Computer Technology Empowers People (ODF document).
• AAC Apps (ODF document).
• AAC Links and Resources (ODF document).
• Activities to Promote Phonemic Awareness (ODF document).
• Aspects of Language Development (ODF document).
• Assistive Technology and people with Intellectual Disability (ODF document).
• Assistive Technology can open Doors to Independence (ODF document).
• Assistive Technology to Support Writing (ODF document).
• Categories of AAC (ODF document).
• Introduction to AAC (ODF document).
• Introduction to Aspects of Reading (ODF document).
• Introduction to Assistive Technology in Education (ODF document).
• Introduction To Language Development (ODF document).
• Introduction to Reading and Writing (ODF document).
• Language Development Apps (ODF document).
• Locator Systems (ODF document).
• Low Tech and High Tech Memory Aids (ODF document).
• OCR, Text to Speech and other technology to support Reading (ODF document).
• Overview of Assistive Technology (ODF document).
• Phonemic Awareness Apps (ODF document).
• Phonics Apps (ODF document).
• Phonics (ODF document).
• Prompting Systems (ODF document).
• Week 2 Reflection (ODF document).
• Stages of Writing (ODF document).
• Week 2 Summary (ODF document).
• Week 2 Welcome (ODF document).
• Enhancing Vocabulary Links (ODF document).
• Enhancing Vocabulary (ODF document).
• Improving Fluency Links (ODF document).
• Improving Fluency (ODF document).
• Reading Comprehension (ODF document).

Week 3

OER folder for week 3.

• Assistive Technology and Service Delivery (ODF document).
• Factors which Influence Assistive Technology use (ODF document).
• Models of Assistive Technology (ODF document).
• COGA Links (ODF document).
• COGA New Proposed Techniques (ODF document).
• COGA New Success Criteria (ODF document).
• COGA proposed Extensions (ODF document).
• COGA Themes (ODF document).
• COGA User Research (ODF document).
• Cognitive and Learning Disabilities and WCAG an Introduction (ODF document).
• Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force (ODF document).
• Week 3 Design Challenge (ODF document).
• Designing For Accessibility Link (ODF document).
• Good Design (ODF document).
• Introduction Mobile Design (ODF document).
• Making written information easier to understand for people with learning disabilities (ODF document).
• Meet the Normals Link (ODF document).
• Mobile Design and WCAG (ODF document).
• Pavlov’s Design Recommendations (ODF document).
• Week 3 Summary (ODF document).
• Transferable Benefit and the Curb-Cut Effect (ODF document).
• Universal Design (ODF document).
• User Centred Design link Don Norman (ODF document).
• User Centred Design (ODF document).
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (ODF document).

Week 4

OER folder for week 4.

• Co-Design for Community Inclusion (ODF document).
• After the Project (ODF document).
• An Approach to User Centred Design UCD (ODF document).
• Co-Design Activities (ODF document).
• Co-Design Link (ODF document).
• Co-designing with partners with Intellectual Disability (ODF document).
• Consider the Person (ODF document).
• Design Challenge 4 (ODF document).
• Design Thinking Link (ODF document).
• Ethical Issues? (ODF document).
• Expected Learning Outcomes of Co-Design? (ODF document).
• General Conduct Rules (ODF document).
• Getting Started (ODF document).
• Informed Consent for those who cannot read? (ODF document).
• Intellectual Property (ODF document).
• Participatory Design Framework (ODF document).
• Participatory Design Link (ODF document).
• Participatory Design Techniques Link (ODF document).
• Participatory Design to Co-Design (ODF document).
• Preparing for the Co-Design exercise? (ODF document).
• Week 4 Summary (ODF document).
• The National Disability Insurance Agency of Australia Co-Design Initiative for people with Disability (ODF document).
• User Centred Design UCD (ODF document).
• User Participation (ODF document).
• Using the User (ODF document).
• Video based Consent forms (ODF document).
• Visual Consent forms (ODF document).
• What is Co-Design? (ODF document).
• Consent: video on Vimeo, captions in SRT format, licence info for the video, licence info for the captions file.
• Project information: video on Vimeo, captions in SRT format, licence info for the video, licence info for the captions file.

Week 5

OER folder for week 5.

• Telecare and The Internet of Things (ODF document).
• The Internet of Things and Assisted Living (ODF document).
• Accessibility of the new technologies (ODF document).
• ConnectR Telepresence Robot video Link (ODF document).
• Data Protection Considerations with the new technologies (ODF document).
• Design Challenge 5 (ODF document).
• Domestic Robots (ODF document).
• thical Considerations with the new technologies (ODF document).
• Examples of current technology in our everyday Lives (ODF document).
• Examples of the Internet of Things (ODF document).
• Independent Living for people with Intellectual Disabilities (ODF document).
• Internet of Caring Things Link (ODF document).
• Internet of Things Example Link (ODF document).
• Internet of Things and Healthcare Link (ODF document).
• Internet of Things New Promises for People with Disabilities (ODF document).
• Internet of Things Video Link (ODF document).
• Robotic Kitchen video Link (ODF document).
• Robots that are changing everything Link (ODF document).
• Robots (ODF document).
• Social Robots (ODF document).
• Week 5 Summary (ODF document).
• Technical Considerations with the new technologies (ODF document).
• Telecare Robots (ODF document).
• Telepresence Robots (ODF document).
• What is the Internet of Things (ODF document).