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Adapting technology to meet special needs
Updated on May 05, 14
Created on Apr 24, 12
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Zoo U is an online game-based social skills assessment program for children in grades 3 and 4. After customizing their avatar, players explore a variety of social situations in a virtual school setting.
The AT Basic Modules provide general assistive technology information on a variety of related uses for elementary students with disabilities. They include links to tutorials on the setup and use of several products as well as links to related resources.
Rewordify takes a complex passage and rephrases it in simpler terms. Students can adjust Rewordify's settings to match their needs. For example, students can add words to a "skip list" and those words will not be changed when they appear in a passage. Students can also use Rewordify to simply highlight difficult words instead of having them replaced.
Autism Speaks is proud to present our guide to technology for autism. This guide is designed for individuals with autism and their families and will help you discover new technologies that can help you find your voice and find
your path in life
Free screen reader for blind people. You can even choose to install it as a portable version to a USB flash drive. That's a good choice if you want to use NVDA on any computer you plug the drive into."
App that lets your smartphone do text-to-speech
Student Handbook for choosing assistive technology
A Google Chrome extension that uses iSpeech's human sounding text to speech (TTS) to let you select text from almost any website and make it talk.
A text-to- speech app. Announcify reads out loud various kinds of information, like events or whole documents, for you.
You don't need to take your phone out of your pocket anymore everytime someone sends you a message.
A Google Chrome extension that reads the text on a page. Select text you want to read and listen to it. SpeakIt converts text into speech so you no longer need to read.
Free text-to-speech plugin for Microsoft Word
The Pass It On Center is creating national and state resources to foster the appropriate reuse of Aissitive Technology so that people with disabilities can get the affordable AT they need in order to live, learn, work and play more independently.
Assistive technology tools and resources to support learning for students with disabilities and their classmates.
Amazing apps out there that can help students with a reading disability improve their skills not only in reading, writing, and spelling, but also get a boost in confidence and learn to see school as a fun, engaging activity, not a struggle.
22 items | 17 visits
Adapting technology to meet special needs
Updated on May 05, 14
Created on Apr 24, 12
Category: Schools & Education
URL: