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October is Dyslexia Awareness Month

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provide assistive technology (such as a calculator, text-to-speech tools, and electronic dictionaries). BrowsAloud software adds speech, reading, and translation facility to websites for people with not only dyslexia but other mild visual impairments. Web-based tool or software. offer an alternative answer sheet.

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How to Leverage Mainstream Technology to Boost Special Education

EdTech Magazine

Assistive technology may be the best option. Not only do tools such as audiovisual assistance and voice amplification help students with special needs, they can eventually be transitioned for use in a modern learning environment to serve everyone. . Many Devices Include Assistive Technology Tools. on a podcast.

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October is Dyslexia Awareness Month

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provide assistive technology (such as a calculator, text-to-speech tools, and electronic dictionaries). BrowsAloud software adds speech, reading, and translation facility to websites for people with not only dyslexia but other mild visual impairments. Web-based tool or software. offer an alternative answer sheet.

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October is Dyslexia Awareness Month

Ask a Tech Teacher

provide assistive technology (such as a calculator, text-to-speech tools, and electronic dictionaries). BrowsAloud software adds speech, reading, and translation facility to websites for people with not only dyslexia but other mild visual impairments. Web-based tool or software. offer an alternative answer sheet.

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October is Dyslexia Awareness Month

Ask a Tech Teacher

provide assistive technology (such as a calculator, text-to-speech tools, and electronic dictionaries). BrowsAloud software adds speech, reading, and translation facility to websites for people with not only dyslexia but other mild visual impairments. Web-based tool or software. offer an alternative answer sheet.

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Getting Started with Google Voice Typing

Nick's Picks for Educational Technology

Text-to-Speech That Actually Works I remember trying voice-to-text software in the late 1990s. Thankfully, voice-to-text software has come a long way since then. Google voice typing is incredibly accurate and fast enough to be used as a real. In addition to a lack of accuracy, I had to speak slower than I could already type.

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5 Tech Resources for the Blind or Visually Impaired

The Innovative Educator

You can request assistance at any time of the day, from anywhere, and it will always be free. Seeing Assistive Technology These are apps that narrate the world around you using a phone or glasses to identify what is around you out loud. There is also screen reading software. Other browsers like FireFox have addons.