abilities

How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed Ability Classrooms (2nd Edition)
$22.67
An EXCELLENT resource for all regular education and special education personnel ... Solid research coupled with practical advice, and everyday applications. A "must read" for all teachers! HIGHLY recommended reading!

Ability Magazine
$29.70
ABILITY Magazine focuses on disabilities to crossover into mainstream America. It provides information on New Technologies, the "Americans with Disability Act", Travel and Leisure, Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities, Human interest Stories, National and Local Resource Centers.

Ability Office Standard
$99.99
I bought Ability Office 4 years ago at an Office Depot.

The programs themselves are not exact replicas of their similar counterparts. If you need to use the extra bells and whistles in photoshop, excel, etc., then I suggest getting the actual product. But for basic purposes, this program is awesome, especially for home use and college students.

Mine has Ability Draw (like paint), Ability Launcher (never used it, but I think it's a way to open various Ability Programs), Ability Photo Album (never used it), Ability Photopaint Studio (like photoshop), Ability Presentations (like PowerPoint), Ability Spreadsheet (like Excel), Ability Write (like Word). You can save your image/document/presentation/etc. in many different formats to be compatible with almost any major software.

While I bought it for the spreadsheets because it would save it as an excel document (whereas Works would not), I use it more now for the photopaint studio (which saves things as a png file...awesome).

I originally had Windows XP and it worked awesome on that. But, now I have Windows Vista and a whole new computer (thanks to a power surge), and there are a few bugs with it now. I only really use the photopaint studio now on Vista, and the main bug is when I delete a layer, the program shuts down soon after. But I can select the whole image and hit the delete button creating a blank layer just fine. Sometimes I have a hard time getting the scanner to be recognized, and that might be more because my printer/scanner is wireless. The other thing that doesn't function on Vista at all but did on XP is the PDF. I don't know if that's because I switched computers or not, or because I switched operating systems. I can't get any programs that saved as a PDF to work on this new computer at all. I haven't tried to figure it out because I rarely want to do that. I thought I'd mention all this since Vista isn't listed for compatibility.

Cosco Ability Care Tub Assist Bar, Sand
$75.00
I bought this because my mom was staying with me while recovering from an illness. It gets the job done and is stable enough if you just need to steady yourself while entering or exiting the tub. However, it was really hard to install and I would never recommend it for anyone who needs to put all their weight on it. Additionally, despite following the directions, the adhesive pads removed some of the finish from my tub.