Jennifer Holloway, Assistive Technology Specialist, Certified Reading Specialist, "Assistive Tecnhology Support for Dyslexia"
Assistive technology only helps a student and compensates for deficit areas.
Frequently Used Tools for Reading
- Positioning aides - book stand, paper holder, clip boards
- Tracking aides - rules, color overlays, index cards, reading helpers with color overlay ex: EZC reader from Really Good Stuff or Onion Mountain
- Contrast Aides - highlighters, highlighter tape, post-it notes, color overlays (See it Right),
- Word Identification Aides - Talking dictionaries, spell checkers, reading pens
- Magnification Aides - Hand help or stand magnifies, video magnifier
- Alternate format books - audio, large type books, Braile, text and symbols (News 2 You), Start to Finish Literacy Starters (Don Johnston), Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic (www.rfbd.org), GLASS, National Library for Accessible Services, Project Gutenberg, Bookshare, Accessible Book Collection, directly through the publishing company
- Text Reading Software
- Digital Voice Recorders - THS Technology has four of these for use and Lisa can provide information about which you should purchase and where you can get them from.
- MS Word - accessibility features
Simple English Wikipedia - great free resources
Google - Grade Level Search
Power Point Books - adapting books, using the narration feature to create your own electronic books. Older students create for younger students.
Writing and Math - we did not get to these topics, but I will email Jennifer to get the list of these tools.
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