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Marika
Can be custamized for th
ose who have dyslexia and Learning disabilities.
https://www.bookshare.org/cms/

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Read Books on Mobile Devices | Bookshare

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"With Switch Control, You're in Control"

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Teachers don't have time to sit with every student and help them read. This app helps  read and pronounce challenging words. It shows how to chunk words, break them into syllables and use phonics skills to figure them out.

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the sounding out machine - assistive reading device

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‎The Sounding Out Machine - Assistive Reading Device

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‎The Sounding Out Machine is an Assistive Reading Device. It helps children focus on challenging words in their texts, and then models how to sound out those words. Teachers love to sit next to students and listen to them read. They model how to chunk words, break them into syllables and use phonic...

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Microsoft learning tools for reading comprehension

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Microsoft Learning Tools are free tools that implement proven techniques to improve reading and writing for people regardless of their age or ability.

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Alexa
https://www.helpkidzlearn.com/shop/online-software/games-and-activities

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Microsoft Accessability provides information for how to access the steps of how to reduce distractions

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Apple Hearing Aid

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iPhone has powerful built-in features for those who are deaf or hard of hearing, like FaceTime, Software TTY, and support for Bluetooth hearing aids.

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Free App in US with access to eBooks for students with different learning barriers

https://www.bookshare.org/cms/help-center/read-books-mobile-devices

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Apple makes hearing aids! Check it out
https://www.apple.com/ca/accessibility/

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I found the resources and reasons for using them to be insightful. In particular her use of sign language videos for all students.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT2pJrArbWs

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Speak Screen Builds listening experiences

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Speak Screen Builds listening experiences

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Many students have trouble reading. Whether because of a learning disability or because of a lack of engagement with the texts. Speak Screen allows students to listen to their texts, removing one more barrier between them and their learning experience.

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Hear text read aloud with Narrator

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Bailey Graham

An interesting read about inclusionary practices to help students with disabilities in the classroom. There are 25+ assistive technologies that students can use in the classroom.

https://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2011/09/25-incredible-assistive-technologies.html

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https://www.helpkidzlearn.com/shop/online-software/games-and-activities

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Types of Assistive Devices your child or student might need.

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The following are some examples of different types of assistive technology devices:

Access and Environmental Controls:

Devices that allow increased control of the environment or that open up access to things in the environment. This includes electronic controls like switches, special keyboards or mice, and remote controls as well as things that help people get around the community, like ramps, automatic door openers, and Braille signs.

Special tools for daily activities, like brushing teeth, dressing or eating. This includes adapted utensils, plates and cups, non-skid surfaces, and specially designed toilet seats and shower stalls.

Supports that help a student who is either deaf or has a hearing loss. This includes hearing aids, amplifiers, captions on TV, and typing telephones.

Augmentative/Alternative Communication:

Supports that allow a child who cannot speak, or whose speech is not understood by others, to communicate. This includes picture boards, voice output communication devices, communication software and computers.

Computer-Based Instruction:

Software to help students with learning difficulties in reading, writing, math and other subject areas.

Equipment that allows a student with a physical or visual disability to move independently and safely through the community. This includes wheelchairs, walkers, and adapted bicycles.

Any support that helps a student with a physical disability remain in a good position for learning without becoming tired. This includes adjustable chairs, tables, standers, wedges and straps.

Supports that give a student with visual difficulties access to information. This includes large-print books, books on tape, magnifiers, talking computer software, and Braillers.
Back to Strategies Home

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The following are some examples of different types of assistive technology devices: Access and Environmental Controls: Devices that allow increased control of the environment or that open up access to things in the environment. This includes electronic controls like switches, special keyboards or mice, and remote controls as well as things that help people get around the community, like ramps, automatic door openers, and Braille signs.

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Sami Jones
Amanda Stebbins
Abbie Babcock
Grace Cameron
Kaleefa Henry

A hyperdoc is a collaborative shared document which focuses on personalized learning options.

https://www.fttechtips.com/hyperdocs.html

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Cassidy:Toss the Smartboard. Here's The Best #BacktoSchool Teaching Tool: @ClassroomScreen

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Cassidy:Toss the Smartboard. Here's The Best #BacktoSchool Teaching Tool: @ClassroomScreen

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Closing the Gap - Software Options

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Discover over 600 assistive technology (software) products that are on the market today. Use the search engine to filter your search and find products to meet your unique needs.

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Interesting video explaining common myths associated with Assisted Technology - Kelsey T.

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Interesting video explaining common myths associated with Assisted Technology - Kelsey T.

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https://www.understood.org/en/school-learning/assistive-technology/assistive-technologies-basics/video-5-myths-about-assistive-technology

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To be able to navigate Windows and alter it to be able to do what you want can be a challening task.

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Apple has developed hearing aids that you can control the volume and check battery life through your phone - Jared K

https://www.apple.com/ca/accessibility/iphone/hearing/

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Microsoft accessibility feature for hearing difficulties

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Microsoft accessibility feature for hearing difficulties

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A translator add-in is available for PowerPoint on PCs which allows presenters to display live subtitles in their presentations. This subtitle feature works in 60+ supported languages, accommodating those with  hearing difficulty, deafness, or language barriers.

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Presentation Translator is an Office add-in for PowerPoint that enables presenters to display live, translated subtitles. As you speak, the add-in allows you to display subtitles directly on your PowerPoint presentation in any one of more than 60 supported text languages. Additionally, up to 100 audience members in the room can follow along with the presentation in their own language, and on their own phone, tablet, or computer.

Key Features:

* Live subtitling: Speak in any of the 10 supported speech languages - Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish - and subtitle into any one of the 60+ text translation languages.

* Customized speech recognition: Presenters have the option to customize the speech recognition engine using the vocabulary within the slides and slide notes to adapt to jargon, technical terms, product or place names, etc.

* Translate PowerPoint Text: Translate the text of PowerPoint while preserving the original formatting, including translation between left-to-right and right-to-left languages.

* Audience Participation: Share a QR- or five letter conversation code and your audience can follow along with your presentation, on their own device, in their chosen language.

* Open the mic to multi-lingual Q&A: Unmute the audience to allow questions in any of the supported languages (10 for spoken questions, 60+ for written ones).

* Inclusivity through Accessibility: Help audience members who are deaf or hard of hearing follow the presentation, and participate in the discussion.

Presentation Translator is powered by the Microsoft Translator live feature, built on Microsoft Translator APIs. Part of the Microsoft Cognitive Services API collection, the API enables businesses to add end-to-end, real-time, speech translations to their applications or services. We recommend using this add-in with Microsoft Office 365 and Windows 10.

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Microsoft Garage: Presentation Translator - an Office add-in for PowerPoint

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Presentation Translator is an Office add-in for PowerPoint that enables presenters to display live, translated subtitles. As you speak, the add-in allows you to display subtitles directly on your PowerPoint presentation in any one of more than 60 supported text languages.

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An app to help kids with numbers and number sense

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Montessori Numbers is designed to help build sound mathematical foundations in children aged 3-7 by using a concrete, visually significant material inspired from the Montessori methodology.

Learn to understand quantities and numbers, learn the numerals and build numbers from 0 to 1000.

Montessori Numbers offers a sequence of guided activities that gradually help children reinforce their skills. The app can be used with children aged 3-7. Each activity offers several levels of increasing complexity.

1 - Experiment with quantities and learn their names

2 - Learn the numerals and their names

3 - Associate quantities with numerals

4 - Understand the decimal system

5 - Introduce addition and subtraction

Montessori Numbers builds on the iPad's touch feature, and uses verbal feedback for more efficient learning. The app can pronounce any number between 0 and 1009, and American, British and Australian voices are available.

➜ 1 to 20

This activity is designed to introduce numbers up to 10 - but since number names up to 20 are also difficult to memorize, we have added a special level for numbers from 11 to 20.

There are 3 levels of difficulty: 0 to 5, 0 to 10 and 11 to 20.

➜ Quantity

In this activity, kids associate quantities to numbers by manipulating units, bars of 10, and squares of 100 to match a given number. As the game is started, an option allows you to hide the numerals to work specifically on the association of number names with quantities.

The child can also touch placed beads to make the app count them, and touch numbers to hear their names.

There are 3 levels of difficulty: 0 to 9, 10 to 99 and 100 to 999.

➜ Numerals

In this activity, number names are to be associated with numerals. As a number name is pronounced, kids are invited to find the corresponding numeral. Kids can freely experiment with numerals and hear the names associated with each numeral they build. The quantity representing the numbers built is also displayed to reinforce the association between quantity and numerals.

There are 3 levels of difficulty: 0 to 9, 10 to 99 and 100 to 999.

➜ Numerals (from Quantity)

In this activity, a quantity is to be associated with a given numeral. The child must build the number that matches the quantity displayed. This is the most complex activity because the child must count the quantity displayed, and then build the number using the numerals.

There are 3 levels of difficulty: 0 to 9, 10 to 99 and 100 to 999.

➜ Building Game:

A game can be started at the end of each activity (availability can be modified in the settings panel). There is no "real" goal to this game - kids can play freely with the materials, thus becoming more familiar with them. Kids can add any material and numeral they want, and build whatever they want.

By default, gravity is simulated and the child can even move the device to make the objects move. Touching the background will create lovely fireworks.
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Common Core State Standards :

This app will help your child in learning the following Common Core State Standards domains:

➜ Operations and Algebraic Thinking (K.OA, 1.OA.1/2/5) (note that even if operations are implicit in this app, the child learns addition and subtraction by adding and removing beads, and learn strategies to add and subtract mentally)

➜ Number & Operations in Base Ten (K.BNT,1.NBT.1/2/4/5/6, 2.NBT.1/2/3/5/8/9, 3.NBT.1/2). The app is great to deal with place value.

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Montessori Numbers - Math Activities for Kids on iPad and iPhone

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Montessori Numbers is designed to help build sound mathematical foundations in children aged 3-7 by using a concrete, visually significant material inspired from the Montessori methodology. Learn to understand quantities and numbers, learn the numerals and build numbers from 0 to 1000. Montessori Numbers offers a sequence of guided activities that gradually help children reinforce their skills.

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Don't be so animated

Minimize visual distractions by turning off animations, background images, and more.

1. Select Start > Settings > Accessibility > Visual effects.

2. To minimize distractions, do one or more of the following:

Clean up taskbar clutter

Choose which icons appear on the taskbar and reduce the number of items in view.

1. Select Start > Settings > Personalization > Taskbar.

2. Select Taskbar items and Taskbar corner icons to expand those sections andturn off the switches for the items you don't want to see on the taskbar.

3. To select which icons can appear in the taskbar corner, select Taskbar corner overflow. Turn on the switches for the icons that you want to see in the taskbar corner. The icons with the switches turned off won't show directly on the taskbar-they'll only appear in the taskbar corner overflow menu.

Quiet down those notifications

Do not disturb allows you to define which notifications you see and hear and when. The rest of the notifications will go to the notification center where you can see them any time.

You can also modify the notifications settings to choose which apps display notifications.

Choose the notifications you want to see and hear

1. Select Start > Settings > System > Notifications, then adjust the settings.

2. To see and hear fewer notifications, turn on Do not disturb.

3. If you want to choose notifications from certain apps, select Set priority notifications. Modify these options to get the notifications you want to see when do not disturb is turned on.

Tip: To quickly switch Do not disturb on, go to the taskbar and select the battery, network, or volume icon to open the notification center, then turn it on or off.

Limit late-night notifications

1. Select Start > Settings > System > Notifications.

2. In Turn on do not disturb automatically, select During these times to turn it on.

3. Choose when do not disturb turns on, turns off, and how often it repeats.

4. You can also choose the types of tasks that will turn on do not disturb automatically.

Choose which apps display notifications

If notifications are distracting when they appear on your screen, adjust which apps display notifications and fine-tune how they appear.

1. Select Start > Settings > System > Notifications.

2. In Notifications from apps and other senders, turn off the apps you don't want notifications from and turn on the apps you do want to get notifications from.

3. To define where the notifications appear for each app, select a specific app, then change the options as desired.

Read with fewer distractions

To read a web page on a simpler and cleaner layout, use the Immersive Reader in Microsoft Edge. For more info on the Immersive Reader, go to Use Immersive Reader in Microsoft Edge.

1. To start using the Immersive Reader, open the web page you want to read in Microsoft Edge, and then press the function key + F9. Alternatively, select ( Enter Immersive Reader) on the address bar.

Tip: If you don't see the ( Enter Immersive Reader) icon on the address bar, select the text you want to read, right-click, and select Open selection in Immersive Reader.

2. The page opens on a simpler layout. To change how the page is displayed, review the options on the toolbar at the top of the page. Under Text preferences, for example, you can modify the background color using themes or change the font.

3. To exit the Immersive Reader, select ( Exit Immersive Reader) on the address bar or press the function key + F9.

Don't be so animated

Minimize visual distractions by turning off animations, background images, and more.

1. Select Start , then select Settings > Ease of Access > Display .

2. Choose from the different options under Simplify and personalize Windows.

Clean up taskbar clutter

Choose which icons appear on the taskbar and reduce the number of items in view.

1. Select Start , then select Settings > Personalization > Taskbar .

2. Under Notification area, choose Select which icons appear on the taskbar.

System icons, like the clock and battery indicator, can also be turned on or off.

1. Select Start , then select Settings > Personalization .

2. Under Notification area, choose Turn system icons on or off.

Simplify the Start menu

Many apps use Live Tiles to show updates on what's happening in your world, like new email, your next appointment, or the weekend weather. If these animations are distracting, you can turn them off.

Press and hold (or right-click) a tile, and then select More > Turn Live Tile off.

Quiet down those notifications

Focus assist (also called quiet hours in earlier versions of Windows 10) allows you to avoid distracting notifications when you need to stay focused. It's set by default to activate automatically under certain conditions.

Here's how to turn focus assist on or off:

1. Select the Action Center icon on the taskbar.

2. Select Focus assist to cycle through the available settings: either Priority only, Alarms only, or Off. (If you don't see the Focus assist tile, you may need to select Expand first.)

3. Focus assist settings can be edited by selecting Start > Settings > System > Focus assist. Or you can type Focus assist into the search box on the taskbar, and then select Focus assist settings from the list of results.

4. In the Focus assist settings, you can limit late-night notifications using the Automatic rules section. To do that, select During these times and turn on the toggle. Then, select Start timeor End time, pick a time, and select the check mark to save your changes. You can also choose what days you want to apply the rule, and what types of notifications you'd still like to receive during the times you set.

Open focus assist settings

If notifications are distracting when they appear on your screen, adjust which apps display notifications and fine-tune how they appear. To change notification settings, select Start , then select Settings > System > Notifications & actions . You can then choose which types of notifications you want to see.

Read with fewer distractions

For a clean and simple layout, use Reading view in the Microsoft Edge browser address bar to bring whatever you're reading front and center. After you open an article, you'll see a book icon on the right side of your browser. When you select it, you'll be in reading view.

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Minimize visual distractions by turning off animations, background images, and more. Select Start > Settings > Accessibility > Visual effects. To minimize distractions, do one or more of the following: Choose which icons appear on the taskbar and reduce the number of items in view. Select Start > Settings > Personalization > Taskbar.

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The Immersive Reader tool helps improve reading comprehension by allowing the user to change line spacing, break words down into syllables and much more.
https://www.onenote.com/learningtools

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Microsoft Learning Tools are free tools that implement proven techniques to improve reading and writing for people regardless of their age or ability.

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I found this article interesting because it talks about the different ways and best practices when interacting with peoples with disabilities.
http://www.unitedspinal.org/disability-etiquette/

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25 Incredible Assistive Technologies to assist with various learning disabilities in the classroom.
https://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2011/09/25-incredible-assistive-technologies.html

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This blog lists many technological tools that help students with disabilities in the classroom! https://gettecla.com/blogs/news/using-assistive-technology-in-the-classroom

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Laura C., Stéphanie F., Rebecca T., Zach M., Stew C.

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Laura C., Stéphanie F., Rebecca T., Zach M., Stew C.

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We found the video interesting. It showed us how accessible mac has made their products.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB4cjbYywqg&feature=youtu.be

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https://www.naturalreaders.comThis downloadable software allows users to post digital
text of different formats and have it read back to them in a natural voice. This is helpful for those with vision problems, and/or reading disabilities.

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Blog post stating the advantages of using tech in the classroom, debunks the Myths. Some interesting facts!

https://www.thetechedvocate.org/3-myths-of-using-digital-tools-in-the-higher-education-classroom/