Tier 3 Decoding

Tier 3 Assistive Technology for Decoding

Reading Remediation: teaching the code

  • Reading Raven App
  • Montessori Crossword App
  • Bitsboard Pro / Bitsboard Student


Elementary Compensatory: alternate access to fixed print

  • Audio books on any device (tablet, iOS, Chrome, laptop)
  • Read aloud storybook apps (Monster at the End of the Book)
  • Accessibility Options (personally recommended in an AT Assessment): Text to speech on any device (Spoken Content in Accessibility iOS, Text to speech (chrome) , magnification
  • Text to speech/Read aloud apps/extension R&W4G extension (Chromebook), Voice Dream Reader App)
  • Digital dictionary
  • OCR Scanning App ( for example Voice Dream Scanner App iOS, OCR scanning feature on school's photocopiers - scan to Google Drive, Read Iris)
  • eBooks available via public library (Libby)
  • FM surround sound system
  • Magnification options on a variety of devices (iOS and Chrome accessibility options)
  • Video with closed captioning options
  • High interest/low vocab (simple wikipedia, Readtopia program, Newsela, ReadWorks)
  • Bookshare Canada https://www.bookshare.org/cms/bookshare-canada
  • Clicker Sentences, Clicker Connect,


Middle School Compensatory

  • Audio books on any device (tablet, iOS, Chrome, laptop)
  • Read aloud storybook apps (Monster at the End of the Book)
  • Accessibility Options (personally recommended in an AT Assessment): Text to speech on any device (Spoken Content in Accessibility iOS, Text to speech (chrome) , magnification
  • Text to speech/Read aloud apps/extension R&W4G extension (Chromebook), Voice Dream Reader App)
  • Reading Pens
  • Digital dictionary
  • OCR Scanning App ( for example Voice Dream Scanner App iOS, OCR scanning feature on school's photocopiers - scan to Google Drive, Read Iris)
  • eBooks available via public library (Libby)
  • Magnification options on a variety of devices (iOS and Chrome accessibility options)
  • Video with closed captioning options
  • High interest/low vocab (simple wikipedia, Readtopia program, Newsela, ReadWorks)
  • Bookshare Canada https://www.bookshare.org/cms/bookshare-canada


High School Compensatory

  • Audio books on any device (tablet, iOS, Chrome, laptop)
  • Read aloud storybook apps (Monster at the End of the Book)
  • Accessibility Options (personally recommended in an AT Assessment): Text to speech on any device (Spoken Content in Accessibility iOS, Text to speech (chrome) , magnification
  • Text to speech/Read aloud apps/extension R&W4G extension (Chromebook), Voice Dream Reader App)
  • Digital dictionary
  • OCR Scanning App ( for example Voice Dream Scanner App iOS, OCR scanning feature on school's photocopiers - scan to Google Drive, Read Iris)
  • eBooks available via public library (Libby)
  • Magnification options on a variety of devices (iOS and Chrome accessibility options)
  • Video with closed captioning options
  • High interest/low vocab (simple wikipedia, Readtopia program, Newsela, ReadWorks)
  • Bookshare Canada https://www.bookshare.org/cms/bookshare-canada


Tier 2 Assistive Technology Services for Decoding

  • Assistive Technology assessments
  • Training with teaching support teams, student planning teams and learning support teachers, other professionals, education assistants on various Tier 2 Assistive Technology
  • Collaborating with LD Specialists, SLPs, Pscychologists
  • Tier 2 Assistive Technology implementation support in a variety of learning environments