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Accessible Books and Periodicals for Readers with Print Disabilities

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) requires school districts to provide instructional materials to blind persons or other persons with print disabilities in a timely manner. This means that districts must take all reasonable steps to provide print instructional materials in accessible formats to children with disabilities at the same time as other children receive those materials.

View current and archived issues in the exact same layout as the print edition of the newspaper printed in Washington. User controls include quick options for text magnification, bookmarking, and text-to-speech

"Out of Print highlights the sea change underway in the multi-billion dollar U.S. K-12 instructional materials market enabled by recent technology and intellectual property rights innovations. With a focus on the ultimate impact on student learning, the report provides examples of lessons learned from recent digital and open (OER) content initiatives by leading states and school districts and offers comprehensive recommendations for government, industry, and educators to ensure that the inevitable shift to digital instructional materials improves student achievement and engagement and efficiently uses scarce resources."

Unlimited creativity in creating flashcards: Use LaTeX-formulas, pictures, videos, text formatting, Learning statistics which show you exactly what you should concentrate on,Import and export of flashcards (CSV, XLS, Html),Download your flashcards for offline learning (printing function)

"CC Prose is dedicated to making classic literature accessible to people around the world. By combining high quality audio, large print text, synchronized closed captions, and machine translations in multiple languages; we provide something for everyone. "

Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. Create your own.

accessible books for individuals with print disabilities

Effective educational software, autism, aspergers, visuals: Templates for interactive stories, games, matching boards, token boards, timers, and first-then boards, as well as the soon to be released scene cue display and topic board templates are accessed from the second core area of the program, Lesson Builder. All interactive lesson formats can be printed out, and Pix2Go allows you to use any of the over 10,000 images from the image library for projects designed specifically for table-top use.

Great article about all things OCR to provide Universal Access

Online Library service for audio and ebook downloads for eligible blind, low-vision, and print disabled(dyslexic) in the following states: California, Colorado, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Oregon, Texas, and Vermont . Once eligible, local library card will provide access. Contact your local library to start process. mp3 audiobooks and ebooks

interactive, customizable visual timetable/scheduling software Use icons or imported images to design and print any kind of schedule Great for nonreaders

learned about this from Kate's blog