Assistive Technology for Reading
The C Pen is a highlighter pen that scans words into its memory for the user to hear them read aloud instantly for independent reading.
Reading Tools can assist a student by reading aloud text from a book or worksheet. There are a variety of reader pens commercially available.
Assistive Technology for Reading and Writing
Reading & Writing programs offers a range of powerful support tools to help students gain confidence with reading, writing, studying and research, including:
• 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
• With speech-to-text, dictate words to assist with writing, proofreading & studying
• Word prediction offers suggestions for the current or next word as you type
• Collect highlights from text in documents or the web for summarizing and research
• Create and listen to voice notes directly inside of Google Docs
• Simplify and summarize text on web pages to remove ads and other copy that can be distracting
Assistive Technology for the Organization of Writing