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...this site includes tons of information about using technology to support Bloom's Taxonomy; there are tips, tricks, handouts, and information to support you as you use this in your classroom

This is a collaborative project to create an open-source electronic book reader that will support various formats including DAISY and EPUB content. Currently the software is limited to supporting DAISY 2.02 format 'Talking Books'. DAISY / EPUB reader requires a minimum of version 1.5 of Android (also known as 'cupcake'). When the application is installed on a device with version 1.6 or later with TalkBack installed, the navigation of files and folders on the SD card is spoken. The application can be downloaded from the Downloads section of the project site: http://code.google.com/p/android-daisy-epub-reader/downloads/list.

Communication Supports for Problem Behavior with Dr. Pat Mirenda

supports students in writing lab and class reports. Has built in Text to Help supports.

PrAACtical AAC blog, 

Welcome to the Student Inventory for Technology Supports (SIFTS). The SIFTS is a tool to assist school teams in matching a student's needs with assistive technology (AT) features.

This website is intended to provide information about the provision of assistive technology (commonly referred to as "AT") in the K-12 school setting, to Illinois educators and parents.  The determination of a student's need for AT, selection of the appropriate AT, implementation of AT services and ongoing support for a student using AT is an critical process requiring many individuals, including a wide variety of school professionals as well as the student and their parents or guardians, to work together to determine how the student can best meet his or her educational objectives.

PDF to Audio Offline, another app that will provide text to speech support for almost any text file. 

cutre games for pre-k to 2nd grade level with autitory support

reviews of educational apps

Science Writer steps students through the process of writing a report with introduction, methods, results, and conclusion sections. Students draft, revise, and edit their report, using just-in-time support from pedagogical agents who offer models and information about how to write each section. They may also access content and editing checklists to help them evaluate their writing and make revisions. And finally, students can use the embedded text-to-speech tool to listen to their writing to see if it "sounds right" and to listen to any of the directions and instructional material, as well as accessing vocabulary definitions. Each student has their own Science Writer account and teach

Google Play books for Androids supports text to speech and reads ebooks from Google

Just Beam It is a service for quickly and easily sharing files with your colleagues. To use the service just visit Justbeamit.com and drag a file from your desktop to the Just Beam It transfer box. After dragging your file, Just Beam It generates an unique url for your file. Give that link to the person or people you want to be able to download your files. Just Beam It supports files up to 2GB. Watch the short video below for an overview of Just Beam It in action.

DAISY reader for mac and PC reads various file formats with supports. proposed price $39 Has a trial version

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.

ImageToText app allows you to extract editable ASCII text from images, and share the results by EMAIL or EVERNOTE. The app is free, very easy to use, and requires NO REGISTRATION. Simply take a picture of a document that you would like to extract text from, and e-mail the image to yourself, co-workers, friends. You will all receive not only the image but a text file that contains the editable text that is extracted from the image. Currently we are supporting English documents only.

definitions from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, the app offers voice search - to let you look up a word without having to spell it - along with an integrated thesaurus, example sentences, Word of the Day, Favorites, and more. supported by ads

The UDL Curriculum Toolkit supports the creation of flexible, customizable educational materials that allow all learners to progress to their full potential. Use the UDL Toolkit to enhance your existing curriculum or to build a web-based unit from scratch.

listt of free Txt to speech supports

some free visual supports, also has products for sale