article thumbnail

October is Dyslexia Awareness Month

Ask a Tech Teacher

changing presentation methods (from verbal instructions to repetition, text size, or shortened pages). provide assistive technology (such as a calculator, text-to-speech tools, and electronic dictionaries). HumanWare offers assistive technology for people who are blind or have low vision. Natural reader.

Software 359
article thumbnail

October is Dyslexia Awareness Month

Ask a Tech Teacher

changing presentation methods (from verbal instructions to repetition, text size, or shortened pages). provide assistive technology (such as a calculator, text-to-speech tools, and electronic dictionaries). HumanWare offers assistive technology for people who are blind or have low vision. Natural reader.

Software 349
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

October is Dyslexia Awareness Month

Ask a Tech Teacher

changing presentation methods (from verbal instructions to repetition, text size, or shortened pages). provide assistive technology (such as a calculator, text-to-speech tools, and electronic dictionaries). HumanWare offers assistive technology for people who are blind or have low vision. Natural reader.

article thumbnail

October is Dyslexia Awareness Month

Ask a Tech Teacher

changing presentation methods (from verbal instructions to repetition, text size, or shortened pages). provide assistive technology (such as a calculator, text-to-speech tools, and electronic dictionaries). HumanWare offers assistive technology for people who are blind or have low vision. Natural reader.

article thumbnail

Creating an Accessibility-Friendly Environment

Educational Technology Guy

If a teacher has created a presentation or assignment that is bursting with unnecessary Clip Art, distracting transitions between slides, and heavy text/unreadable “fancy” fonts, they have just made that information less accessible to their students. This post originally appeared on Educational Technology Guy.

article thumbnail

Immersive Reader: A powerful tool to support schoolwide literacy

NeverEndingSearch

Such a partner is Microsoft EDU’s Immersive Reader, a growingly popular tool that presents scalable, friendly, flexible, stigma-free solutions to improve literacy schoolwide. Launched in January 2016 as a bold Microsoft Hackathon idea, Immersive Reader , incorporates current reading research and inclusive design principles.

Tools 78
article thumbnail

FETC 2019: Day One

eSchool News

The Expo floor did not open until 4:30 pm on Monday, but educators and administrators were able to choose from 100 workshops, Apple and Microsoft concurrent sessions, and an all-day Blueprint for Technology in Education Summit. Assistive Technology.