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How to Serve Students With Special Needs From Afar

Edsurge

It could be a video, it could be a podcast, it could be a presentation. Because if I can’t do that, then neither can assistive technology. If a learner needs text-to-speech or they’re using a screen reader, if that text is locked in any way, or if that text is presented as an image, then it’s not accessible.

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Paper>Digital Paper>Annotated Paper

SpeechTechie

This process is a helpful one to know about because a) students can be more engaged in completing work electronically b) presenting paper in an electronic form can be important as an accommodation (e.g. because of difficulty writing or the need for speech-to-text or text-to-speech).

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Read Works Provides Access to Handy Text Passages

SpeechTechie

an app such as Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to use highlighting and other annotation tools. Expository text passages are handy for language intervention. There's a lot you can teach with a passage as a context! Check out Readworks and sign up for a free account.