Assistive technology (AT) is any item, piece of equipment, software program, or product system that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of persons with disabilities.
Read and Write: text-to-speech to hear words, passages or whole documents read aloud with easy-to-follow dual color highlighting; text and picture dictionaries to see the meaning of words explained; speech-to-text, dictate words to assist with writing, proofreading, and studying
Magic School: Click on the student support section. It includes sentence starters, text leveler, social stories, SEL lesson plans, accommodation suggestions, student work feedback, and assignment and text scaffolder.
Diffit for teachers: adjust resource's level and complexity. Get "just right" resources for an article or video or any text or excerpt.
Bouncy Balls: Bounce balls with your microphone! A fun way to manage classroom noise or visualize music
Classroom Timer: Interactive timer
Rewordify: Simplifies difficult English and teaches words
Goblin Tools: breaks down tasks into to-do lists
HelpKidzLearn: switch-based games
WeaveChat: Weave Chat AAC is a free, category-based, dynamic, and completely customizable AAC application designed to run on iOS and Android devices.
Smartphone Apps for People with Hearing Loss
Mind Maps: Bubbl.us makes it easy to organize your ideas visually in a way that makes sense to you and others.
Bookshare: Training and Learning Library FREE for students
Common Core Text Ease and Readability Assessor: Provides measures of text "easability" and readability.
100 Low Tech Assistive Technology Solutions for Classrooms: This website provides the history of assistive technology, explains the difference between low and high tech AT, and lists several examples of low-tech in several areas. This site provides many examples of low-tech AT tools and how they can be used!
Referral/Question Identification Guide
Send Referral to the AT Team via interoffice mail or email to
Nia Saffell at the ESS Suites