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Use digital graphic organizers like SpiderScribe.net so students can take advantage of all the benefits of writing digitally including spell check, word prediction, adding pictures, text to speech, adding maps, sharing their work to the world and more!

This video demonstrates how to use Read&Write for Google Chrome to work with webpages in the Chrome browser, using supports like text to speech, word prediction, talking and picture dictionaries, study skills highlighters and more.

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Episode #123 features a recording of a statement by the spokesman for N.O.T.S.I.C.K., the faux National Organization for Training and School Improvement in Classrooms for Kids, pertaining to the outbreak of the PD2.0 virus. A text version of this statement including additional visuals can be read at the Microsoft Partners in Learning Hot Topics Accessibility blog.

Aided language modeling: adult models how to use the individual's communication board/AAC system by actually pointing to/selecting symbols to represent words being read from the text Learning how to use aided language modeling during reading activities using strategies; either of the strategies could be used although in the research the RAA strategy was used primarily to model and elicit single symbol responses whereas RAAP strategy was used primarily to model and elicit multi-symbol response. You can use either of these strategies but prompts may be needed for some children. * RAA: using the read-ask-answer strategy to elicit single symbol responses on the AAC system * RAAP: using the read-ask-answer-prompt strategy to elicit single symbol or multisymbol responses on the AAC system

LoudLit.org is committed to delivering public domain literature paired with high quality audio performances. We pair together great literature and accompanying audio. Putting the text and audio together, readers can learn spelling, punctuation and paragr

List of 15 shortcut keys in Microsoft Word that might be useful when formatting text and improve productivity.

Proloquo2Go is a new product from AssistiveWare that provides a full-featured communication solution for people who have difficulty speaking. It brings natural sounding text-to-speech voices, up-to-date symbols, powerful automatic conjugations, a default

Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. You can: Download the files to your Mp3 player and listen on the go, Listen to the Mp3 files on your computer, View the text on a webpage and read along as you listen,

It's PC only, but is one of the most fully-featured, free apps that I've seen. It uses the SAPI 4 or 5 speech engines, opens HTML, Word, or PDF documents, will convert them all to MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, or WMA files, and has a portable version that will r

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