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Removing Barriers:Assistive Technology Tools to Support
Reading & Writing for Students with Learning Difficulties and Disabilities
"Ball point pens will be the ruin of education in our country. Students use
these devices and then throw them away. The
virtues of thrift and frugality are being
discarded. Business and banks will never allow
such expensive luxuries.”
Disruptive Innovation
SpeakUp 2009
• use social based learning for learning and personal lives
• access to untethered learning• digitally rich learning using relevancy-
based digital tools, content & resources that allow for self directed learning
Project Tomorrow (2009)
30%
http://tinyurl.com/25qkf8s
46-47%
The International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) was undertaken in Australia in 1996
Barriers to Learning & Opportunity
..impaired access, participation and progress in learning, social connectiveness, and employment
Barriers to Learning & Opportunity
“prepare for an environment where they will spend more time reading and using information on the internet than they will reading from a printed book”
Remediation vs Compensation
Edyburn (2006) http://www.uwm.edu/~edyburn/L%26L2006.pdf
One size fits all?
Universal Design for LearningMultiple Means of
• Representation
• Action and Expression
• Engagement
Universal Design for Learning
Multiple Means of
Representation
Student - How we gather facts and categorize what we see, hear, and read.
Teacher - Present information and content in different ways
Universal Design for Learning
Multiple Means of
Action & Expression
Student - Planning and performing tasks. How we organize and express our ideas.
Teacher - Differentiate the ways that students can express what they know
Universal Design for Learning
Multiple Means of
Engagement
Student - How we get engaged and stay motivated. How weare challenged, excited, or interested.
Teacher - Stimulate interest and motivation for learning
Universal Design for Learning
CAST - Center for Applied Special Technology
http://www.cast.org
National Center on Universal Design for Learning
http://www.udlcenter.org
It Can’t Teach
Universal Design for Learning
Multiple Means of
Representation
Student - How we gather facts and categorize what we see, hear, and read.
Teacher - Present information and content in different ways
Reading Tools
Present information and content in different ways
Text-to-Speech
AT Reading Tool Features
• Digital, customized text• Read text aloud (text to speech)• Dictionary & Thesaurus• Text to audio capabilities• Scanning to text
Reading Tools
• Natural Reader V7 - www.naturalreaders.com• WordTalk V4.2 - www.wordtalk.org.uk/home• PowerPoint – //fullmeasure.co.uk/powertalk/
www.spectronicsinoz.com/faqs - click on “freebies”
Reading Tools• Clicker 5• Kurzweil 3000• Texthelp Read&Write• WordQ / SpeakQ• ClaroRead• Read:OutLoud SOLO
Clicker 5
Read: OutLoud 6
Texthelp Read&Write Gold
Portable Reading Tools
Reading Pen TS
Livescribe Pen
eReaders
http://www.spectronicsinoz.com/blog - Weblinks for accessible text and ebooks
iPad Reading Apps
http://www.spectronicsinoz.com/article/apps-for-literacy-support
Universal Design for Learning
Multiple Means of
Action & Expression
Student - Planning and performing tasks. How we organize and express our ideas.
Teacher - Differentiate the ways that students can express what they know
Writing Tools
• Spell Checkers
• Text-to-Speech
• Homophone/Confusable Words
• Word Prediction
• Speech to Text (Speech Recognition)
• Mind Mapping Software
• Other tools
Clicker 5
Speech Recognition
What factors influence success?
Word Prediction• Co:Writer• Texthelp Read&Write• Kurzweil 3000• Penfriend• ClaroRead• Word Q• WYNN
Word Prediction
Word Prediction
Word Prediction Comparison Chart
Ginger
Portable Notetakers
Livescribe Pen
NEO 2
• Apps
www.spectronicsinoz.com/article/apps-for-literacy-support
Writing Tools
Universal Design for Learning
Multiple Means of
Engagement
Student - How we get engaged and stay motivated. How we are challenged, excited, or interested.
Teacher - Stimulate interest and motivation for learning
Engagement
iPad
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