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Tar Heel Reader is a resource where individuals can find and create online books for beginner-level readers on a variety of topics. Books are easy to navigate and come in 27 different languages.

Provide Multiple Means of Representation: Provide Options for Perception
Guideline 1.1: Offer Ways to Customize the Display of Information
Individuals can adjust how books are displayed on the screen to accommodate different visual needs.  They can change the page color and/or the text color, page button size, and book file type (e.g., PowerPoint, EPUB).

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Guideline 1.2/1.3: Offer Alternatives for Auditory/Visual Information
Tar Heel Reader allows users to customize images and text when creating books. It also has a text-to-speech feature so that students can listen to books. The words on the screen highlight when being read.

Books are organized by topic, rating (i.e., "Everyone" vs. "Caution"), and language to accommodate multiple learners. This resource is free so all teachers and parents can access it.

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Natural Reader is a free text-to-speech tool. It can be added as a Google Chrome extension and the user can choose from a variety of speakers. The naturalness and intonation of the software is better than other software products.

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Guideline 1.3 Provide Alternatives to Visual Information

As a text-to-speech software, NaturalReader provides an alternative to visual text. This may be helpful for individuals with vision impairments or reading difficulties. Students can download the speech files as mp3 files and listen to them on the go.

Provide multiple means of Engagement: Provide Options for Recruiting Interest
Guideline 7.2 Optimize relevance, value, and authenticity

NaturalReader speech output has natural sounding intonation and prosody, making it sound like an authentic reader. Users can also change the speaker (voice, speed, and volume) to match their own accent and reading speed.

The variety of speaker options is important for students from different cultural backgrounds. Students may prefer to listen to speech-to-text software that uses an accent they are familiar with. It may help them comprehend and attend to the text better. Students who are given this software should be taught how to adjust the speaker settings so that they can customize their learning experience.

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Dyslexia and other reading-based learning disabilities are most common among students. NaturalReader text-to-speech makes learning more accessible by assisting with any reading, taking tests and promoting independence.

Students can have any text they need to read, read aloud to them so they can read along. Having the text provided both visually and auditory, allows the student to focus less on the act of reading, and more on the comprehension of the content. Other features like dyslexia font, flexible reading speeds, and highlighted text also ease the task of finishing readings.

For most students, learning does not stop when school ends. NaturalReader EDU enables students to be more independent and assists with learning at home. Whether they're doing homework, reading at home, or just surfing the web, our Chrome Extension and Mobile Application are always available.

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NaturalReader: Free Text to Speech for Online, Mobile App, Commercial license and Education with AI voices.

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The Inspiration Maps app for the iPad/iPhone is a visual learning app where users can create graphic organizers and outlines. Users can create and organize notes, brainstorm ideas, and strengthen retention.

Provide Multiple Means of Representation: Provide Options for Comprehension
Guideline 3.3 Guide information processing and visualization
This app allows users to create concept maps, cause and effect diagrams, process flows, and family trees. This can be helpful for students in language arts, history, and science classes. Also, users can organize and categorize concepts and ideas and establish connections with links and connecting phrases. This helps students retain information and strengthen knowledge.

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Guideline 1.1 Offer ways to customize the display of information
Users can change background colors, line colors, link styles, fonts, and graphics. Audio files and hyperlinks can also be added.

Inspiration Maps allows users to start creating diagrams from scratch or from templates. This is great for students who are still learning how to create visual representations of information. Not all students can easily understand information written in bullet-point or paragraph form, and Inspiration Maps can help those students organize information in a visual way.

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‎Welcome to Inspiration Maps™, the most intuitive and powerful visual learning app on the iPad. Build beautiful diagrams, graphic organizers and outlines with ease! Getting organized has never been this simple. ________ What's the difference between 'INSPIRATION MAPS' and 'INSPIRATION MAPS VPP'? 'I...

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Story Jumper is a website where individuals can create and design their own book and listen to it being read with a QR code. They can post it to the website's library and earn royalties. Individuals can also create 3D animated books

Provide multiple means of action/expression: Provide options for expression and communication
Guideline 5.1 Use multiple media for communication
Students can create hardcover books with images and/or text. They can also add audio with a QR code that is on the first page of the book. Lastly, the books can be 3D animated books that are viewed online. Therefore, students have multiple ways of expressing their written work.

Provide Multiple Means of Representation: Provide Options for Perception
Guideline 1.1 Offer ways to customize the display of information
Students can create characters and customize gender, skin color, hair, eyes, and clothing. They can add text and pictures and images. Each page is very customizable so that students can be creative in creating their stories to share with others!

Because the books are customizable, users of varying writing levels can create a hardcover or 3D animated book. They can choose their topic, text, and images. Students may enjoy seeing their written work as a hardcover book that they can read and share. For students who do not have strong literacy skills, they can create a book with just images.

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StoryJumper: #1 rated site for creating story books

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Easiest way to create, narrate, and publish your own hardcover and paperback books. Read and listen to books from our worldwide community.

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This website provides a variety of printable behavior charts, tracking charts, safety charts, rewards charts, and feelings charts. The website also includes tips and strategies for using behavior charts.

Provide Multiple Means of Action and Expression: Provide Options for Executive Functions
Guideline 6.4: Enhance Capacity for Monitoring Progress
This website has behavior charts that help students monitor their own behavior and regulation. They can monitor how close they are to completing an activity or getting a reward.

Provide Multiple Means of Representation: Provide Options for Perception
Guideline 1.2: Offer Alternatives for Auditory Information
With a behavior chart, students have a tangible visual of their behavior progress. A teacher or parent can verbally explain their behavior, however, this website provides an opportunity to visually track behavior. There are a variety of activities with charts, so teachers and parents can find visuals for multiple daily activities. Many have engaging visuals or popular characters to increase motivation.

Behavior charts are categorized by age group and activity, allowing parents and teachers to find charts that best fit the needs of different learners. Charts also comes in different colors and with different popular characters. There are also resources about behavior management for specific disabilities (e.g., Autism, ADHD, etc.) in order to help parents implement behavior strategies for their child who may have specific needs.

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Free Printable Behavior Charts

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Behavior charts are wonderful tools to encourage positive behavior and have fun at the same time. Behavior charts and reward charts can be used to track difficult behaviors, chores, daily routines, homework, potty training and much more! Help support your kids or students by encouraging positive behavior! For more tips, read our article on How to Use Behavior Charts. And if you don't see a behavior chart or resource that your need, contact us, and we'll try our best to make it for free!

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Updated Behavior charts are wonderful tools to encourage positive behavior and have fun at the same time. Behavior charts and reward charts can be used to track difficult behaviors, chores, daily routines, homework, potty training and much more! Help support your kids or students by encouraging positive behavior!

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Scene and Heard is an AAC app with visual scenes  that can be customized. Users can add text, audio, and calendar tasks to visual scenes, making images interactive.

Provide Multiple Means of Action and Expression: Provide Options for Physical Action
Guideline 4.1: Vary Methods for Response and Navigation
Users can access and navigate through the app and visual scenes using their iPhone or iPad, and they can use touch or a switch with scanning. Alternative access methods are important for students who have motor difficulties and are unable to use their fingers to navigate a device.

Provide Multiple Means of Representation: Provide Options for Physical Action
Guideline 3.3: Guide Information Processing and Visualization
This app can help take a difficult, multistep activity (e.g., making a snack, cleaning a room, packing up for dismissal) and break it up into smaller chucks with visual and auditory support. A teacher or parent can create hotspots to make parts of the display interactive and add audio files, videos, and Widgit symbols. Task prompter gives step-by-step instructions, and a task scheduler feature allows the user to create calendar events that link to different parts of the display.

The customization features on this app allow users to create a variety of visual scene displays, ranging from simple single messages to complex, interlinked scenes with a variety of interactive features. Visuals scene displays can be any image that is relevant and important to the child or student.

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‎Scene & Heard is an award winning app. It is a visual scene based communication aid which provides communication in context and new learning aids with interactive features. Scene & Heard is designed to cater for a range of needs, starting with simple single message based communication to sophisticat...

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CoWriter is an app/web browser extension with word prediction, speech-to-text, topic and momentary dictionaries, and text-to-speech capabilities. It needs to be purchased with a monthly fee.

Provide Multiple Means of Representation: Provide Options for Comprehension
Guideline 3.3 Guide information processing and visualization
This app helps users process written text with text-to-speech and dictionary features. They can also use the speech-to-text and word prediction features to help visualize and process their ideas.

Provide Multiple Means of Representation: Provide Options for Perception
Guideline 1.3 Offer alternatives for visual information
This app offer text-to-speech features, which is helpful for students who benefit from listening to text.

Students with reading and writing difficulties can use CoWriter in order to improve their comprehension of text and increase efficiency when creating written text. Text-to-speech and dictionary features help with comprehension. Topic dictionaries generate vocabulary that are relevant to a specific word or topic and can help students who have difficultly with vocabulary.

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Co:Writer kickstarts the writer inside and offers the most complete writing toolkit to help unstick ideas and get them to flow in writing.