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This isn't a direct comparison but it may yet be of interest. All the JISC regional support Centres have a box of assistive technology tools which they use for demonstrating to learning providers. Several of them had been recently updating their Toolkits and these are the sorts of things that three of the regions have been including. RSC Y&H Canon Powershot A610 5.0mega pixels Casio Digital Camera Fluke Etherscope Fluke Etherscope II Sony Handycam Video camera Sony Video Camera HDD Visualiser Video Tripod Video Light Sony Viewsonic Digital Data Projector NEC Digital Data Projector Canon Portable Printer PoGo - Instant Mobile Printer Voting Kit Mimio Disgo Flip Video Wii & Wii sports (with Controller & Nunchuck) Wii Fit board Wii Big Brain Academy Wii My word Coach Ipod Nano Ipod AV Kit Head Cam Voice Recorder 1 Voice Recorde 2 Olympus Voice Recorder Sony Microphone Spare Laptop 1 Spare Laptop 2 Spare Laptop 3 Spare Laptop 4 Digimemo Logitech RSC East Midlands We are creating two duplicate portable AT boxes with the following SW and HW: Gyration suite Vado Intellikeys Accessapps Digital keyring (pre-loaded with exemplar content (eg sequences re personal care, making a cup of tea) Digizo Evoluent mouse TechDis/LSN Upwardly Mobile disc Livescribe Pulse pen Olympus Digital voice recorder with Dragon Naturally Speaking Nintendo DS A laptop loaded with Windows 7 and specialist software, o SymWriter, o JAWS (on one) o PenfriendXL o Clicker5 o Read and Write Mobile o AudioNotetaker Livescribe Pulse Pen £99 Gyration suite £119 Digital photo keyring £11.97 Dell Vostro 3500 laptop £379 Nintendo DS £97 Olympus VN-5500PC DNS Digital Voice Recorder with Dragon Naturally Speaking Software £72.20 Vado usb camcorder £94.21 Read & Write Gold Version 9 Mobile £411.25 JAWS £795.00 AudioNotetaker £79.95 Clicker5 £125 Penfriend XL £120 Symwriter £139 Martin Martin Cooke RSC N Ireland We currently have the following in our AT Kit: * Gyration suite * Intellikeys * AccessApps * Flipvideo camera * Busbi video * Esterline Joystick roller * Trackerball * Mitsumi ergonomic keyboard * Keytools Big Keys * Reading pen * Cambridge digital notebook and pen * Olympus digital voice recorder with Dragon Naturally Speaking A laptop loaded with Windows 7 and specialist software: * TextHelp Read and Write v9 Gold * Clicker 4 * Penfriend XL * Claroread * MyStudyBar From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Patrick Adams Sent: 08 May 2012 12:08 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Loan equipment Thanks to all those who sent their recommendations of assistive technology imagining they had the possibility of a large donation as we have here at University of Birmingham. In particular we are looking at the provision of equipment in our loan pool. We would like to hear of the experience in other universities and in particular focussing on lap-top and tablet provision. · Do other Disability support departments keep a stock of lap-tops for loan; · Do they regularly update that stock after a number of years?; · Do other universities keep IPads or other tablets as loan equipment and if so how do they manage the loan of such devices? · How do other universities keep their stock of lap-tops current and who actually does this? I know I have already sent a post out last year about this last point but it would be good to get an update or comment from those who did not reply to that post. As always I am extremely grateful for the valuable contribution from DisForum members and look forward to the responses to this post. Best wishes Patrick Adams Disability and Assistive Technology Advisor Disability and Learning Support Service University of Birmingham 3 Elms Road Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT Tel: 0121 414 5130 This email is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient please accept our apologies. Please do not disclose, copy, or distribute information in this email nor take any action in reliance on its contents: to do so is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please inform us that this message has gone astray before deleting it. Please note that views expressed in this email are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Higher Education Academy. Please note that this e-mail has been created in the knowledge that Internet e-mail is not a secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when e-mailing us. Although we have taken steps to ensure this e-mail and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. The Higher Education Academy Registered No 4930131