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cAST tool for writing science lab and class reports. Has built in Text Help tool bar. Sentence Starters,

This just came in an email from CAST and looks very interesting.

Free Stuff page: Download free audio and text of children�s stories in French, Spanish, German, Mandarin, Hindi, Dutch and many other foreign languages. Available as PDFs and MP3 files. Free games and coloring books.

talking keyboard talks & speaks text for speech impaired as portable speech AAC talking keyboard and TTS aid

mobile technology using OCR and text to speech software for dyslexia

text to speech on a portable flash drive

Google just updated its iOS search app to include advanced voice search. The new feature is similar to Apple's Siri. Click here to download the free app. With the Google Search app you can ask questions by voice and get spoken feedback. The Google app is very quick and the voice recognition is accurate. It is almost indential to the voice search included in Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. It is able to answer a broad range of questions and always has Google search results to fall back on. The Google app cannot read text messages, call people, set reminders, dictate notes, set alarms or be used from the lock screen like Apple's Siri. The Google app is still great for asking questions and getting good answers. Also for people without Siri the Google app is a great alternative. 

Brett Terpastra with help of several others compiled a list of word processing apps for the ipad. Pretty thourough

"More than another note-taking app, PhatPad turns your iPad into an advanced brainstorming tool. Draw, write, and type your ideas then instantly share them via email, WiFi sync, Dropbox, or presentation mode. PhatPad's digital ink technology and handwriting recognition engine allows you to scribble handwritten notes and drawings and convert them into digital text, or perfect geometrical shapes."

Dollar Scan;  send them a book and they will scan it for $1 per 100 pages.  They OCR and send it back to you as a PDF file. It will be interesting to find out more about graphics and since they OCR the files, if they can send it back as text for screen readers.

Darwin Reader is the first accessible Android book reader designed specifically for blind, low vision, and print disabled users. The app fully supports DAISY formatted audio and text books, and directly integrates with Benetech Bookshare and Librivox to make downloading books amazingly simple. Read books using your preferred interface. For blind and low vision users, the app is completely navigable with the arrow keys. All menus are fully vocalized. Users with dyslexia and other print disabilities can quickly navigate by tapping the stylized graphics on the screen.

Wibbitz is a news-reader app for the iPhone that creates a video summary of text articles from major news outlets