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The benefits of movement in the classroom aren't limited to younger students. Pairing new words and concepts with gestures or dance moves locks in understanding-and active brain breaks prime students to learn even more.

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Soundsory is a 40-day program combining rhythmic music with full-body exercises to enhance listening skills and overall neurodevelopment. For children, games such as "Telephone" and "Simon Says" are examples of the activities they can participate in that can improve auditory processing by promoting active listening and memory skills.

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On-demand learning modules to improve auditory processing abilities in adults and teenagers with Auditory Processing Disorder (APD).

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Hearing Impaired

This amazing technology converts handwritten notes into digital text. Then it syncs with real-time transcription. Not only does this allow students to show their learning in flexible ways (writing, typed, spoken), but also could give all students direct access to teacher notes throughout a lesson.

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Hearing Impaired

Ava Live Captioning helps to empower deaf and hard-of-hearing people with the "best live captioning solutions for any situation". This is an ap that can be downloaded on both Android and iOS systems.

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ADHD

GoNoodle is a digital platform that provides interactive movement and mindfulness activities designed to help students stay engaged, focused, and regulated throughout the school day. With a variety of dance, stretching, breathing exercises, and educational brain breaks, GoNoodle supports physical activity, self-regulation, and classroom engagement in a fun and accessible way.

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ADHD

Read&Write is a literacy support tool that offers help with everyday tasks like reading text out loud, understanding unfamiliar words, researching assignments and proofing written work. It enhances learning through text-to-speech, speech-to-text, word prediction, a dictionary and picture dictionary, highlighters for study support, and screen masking, making it ideal for students with ADHD, dyslexia, and other learning challenges.

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Your subscription means everyone can enjoy the benefits of Read&Write across all platforms including Windows, Mac, Google Chrome, Edge, iPad, and Android.

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Modmath is assistive technology for math that helps students with dyslexia, dysgraphia, and other learning differences write and solve math problems. Using digital graph paper and an intuitive, easy to use interface, Modmath helps build numeracy for students of all ages and grade levels.

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Dyslexia

Google Docs’ voice typing feature allows dyslexic students to express their thoughts verbally instead of struggling with spelling and handwriting. This ensures they can demonstrate their knowledge effectively without being hindered by their difficulties with written language.

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You can use your voice to type and edit your document in Google Docs and your speaker notes and captions in Google Slides.

This feature works with the latest versions of:

When you turn on voice typing or captions, your web browser controls the speech-to-text service. It determines how your speech is processed and then sends the text to Google Docs or Google Slides.

Tip: If this feature is not enabled in your organization, it may have been turned off by your administrator.

Step 1: Turn on your microphone

To use voice typing or voice commands, your computer microphone needs to be on and working.

Devices and microphones vary, so check your computer manual for instructions. Microphone settings are typically in the System Preferences on a Mac, or the Control Panel on a PC.

Step 2: Use voice typing

Type with your voice

Start voice typing in a document

1. Check that your microphone works.

2. Open a document in Google Docs with a Chrome browser.

3. Click Tools Voice typing. A microphone box appears.

4. When you're ready to speak, click the microphone.

5. Speak clearly, at a normal volume and pace (see below for more information on using punctuation).

6. When you're done, click the microphone again.

Start voice typing in Slides speaker notes

1. Check that your microphone works.

2. Open a presentation in Google Slides with a Chrome browser.

3. Click Tools Voice type speaker notes. The speaker notes open, and a microphone box appears.

4. When you're ready to speak, click the microphone.

5. Speak clearly, at a normal volume and pace (see below for more information on using punctuation).

6. When you're done, click the microphone again.

Correct mistakes while voice typing

If you make a mistake while you're typing with your voice, you can move your cursor to the mistake and fix it without turning off the microphone.

After you correct the mistake, move the cursor back to where you want to continue.

To see a list of suggestions, right-click words underlined in gray.

Languages that work with voice typing

Voice typing works in these languages and accents:

Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Arabic (Algeria), Arabic (Bahrain), Arabic (Egypt), Arabic (Israel), Arabic (Jordan), Arabic (Kuwait), Arabic (Lebanon), Arabic (Morocco), Arabic (Oman), Arabic (Palestine), Arabic (Qatar), Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Arabic (Tunisia), Arabic (United Arab Emirates), Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bahasa Indonesia, Basque, Bengali (Bangladesh), Bengali (India), Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Hong Kong), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (Australia), English (Canada), English (Ghana), English (India), English (Ireland), English (Kenya), English (New Zealand), English (Nigeria), English (Philippines), English (South Africa), English (Tanzania), English (UK), English (US), Farsi, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Italian (Italy), Italian (Switzerland), Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Khmer, Korean, Laotian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Malaysian, Marathi, Nepali, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Sinhala, Spanish, Spanish (Argentina), Spanish (Bolivia), Spanish (Chile), Spanish (Colombia), Spanish (Costa Rica), Spanish (Ecuador), Spanish (El Salvador), Spanish (Spain), Spanish (US), Spanish (Guatemala), Spanish (Honduras), Spanish (Latin America), Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Nicaragua), Spanish (Panama), Spanish (Paraguay), Spanish (Peru), Spanish (Puerto Rico), Spanish (Uruguay), Spanish (Venezuela), Sundanese, Swahili (Kenya), Swahili (Tanzania), Swedish, Tamil (India), Tamil (Malaysia), Tamil (Singapore), Tamil (Sri Lanka), Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu (India), Urdu (Pakistan), Vietnamese, Zulu.

Add punctuation

You can use different phrases to add punctuation to your text. Punctuation might not be available in every language:

Period

Comma

Exclamation point

Question mark

New line

New paragraph

Step 3: Use voice commands

After you start voice typing, you can use commands to edit and format your document. For example, "Select paragraph," "italics," or "Go to the end of the line."

Tips:

Voice commands are available only in English. The account language and document language must both be English.

Voice commands are not available in Slides speaker notes.

Select text

To select text, say these commands:

Select [word or phrase]

Select all

Select all matching text

Select list item

Select list items at current level

Select next character

Select next [number] characters

Select last character

Select last [number] characters

Select line

Select next line

Select next [number] lines

Select last line

Select last [number] lines

Select paragraph

Select next paragraph

Select next [number] paragraphs

Select last paragraph

Select last [number] paragraphs

Select word

Select next word

Select next [number] words

Select last word

Select last [number] words

Deselect

Unselect

Select none

Format your document

To format your document, say these commands:

Text formatting

Apply heading [1-6]

Apply normal text

Apply subtitle

Apply title

Bold

Italicize

Italics

Strikethrough

Subscript

Superscript

Underline

Uppercase

Title case

Lowercase

Text color and highlighting

Text color [color]

Highlight

Highlight [color]

Background color [color]

Remove highlight

Remove background color

Tip: The colors available are: red, red berry, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, cornflower blue, purple, magenta, black, white, and gray. For all colors except black and white, you can add "light" or "dark" along with numbers 1-3 (for gray, 1-4), such as "dark purple 3." If you say "highlight" by itself, the highlighting color is yellow.

Font size

Decrease font size

Increase font size

Font size [6-400]

Make bigger

Make smaller

Paragraph formatting

Decrease indent

Increase indent

Line spacing [1-100]

Line spacing double

Line spacing single

Alignment

Align center

Align justified

Align left

Align right

Center align

Left align

Right align

Columns

Apply 1 column

Apply 2 columns

Apply 3 columns

Column options

Insert column break

Lists

Create bulleted list

Create numbered list

Insert bullet

Insert number

Remove formatting

Clear formatting

Remove formatting

Remove bold

Remove italics

Remove strikethrough

Remove underline

Edit your document

To edit your document, say these commands:

Copy

Cut

Paste

Delete

Delete last word

Delete [word or phrase]

Insert link [then say the URL you want to use]

Copy link

Delete link

Insert table of contents

Delete table of contents

Update table of contents

Insert comment [then say your comment]

Insert bookmark

Insert equation

Insert footer

Insert footnote

Insert header

Insert horizontal line

Insert page break

Tips:

If you say "Delete" by itself, you delete the word before the cursor.

If you select the text of a URL and say "Insert link," the selected text becomes a hyperlink.

Add and edit tables

To add and edit tables, say these commands:

Insert table

Insert table [1-20] rows by [1-20] columns

Insert row

Insert column

Insert new column

Insert new column on the left

Insert new row

Insert new row above

Insert new row below

Delete column

Delete row

Delete table

Remove column

Remove row

Remove table

Exit table

Move around your document

To move around your document, say these commands:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Example:
Go to end of paragraph

Go to

Move to

end of

start of

paragraph

column

line

row

table

document

Go to

Move to

next

previous

character

column

footnote

formatting change

heading

heading [1-6]

image

line

link

list

list item

misspelling

paragraph

row

table

word

page

Go

Move

forward

backward

[number] characters

[number] words

Go

Move

up

down

[number] lines

[number] paragraphs

Scroll

Stop voice typing

To stop voice typing, say "Stop listening."

Resume voice typing

To move the cursor to the end of the paragraph and start voice typing again, say "Resume."

To move the cursor to the end of a particular word or phrase, say "Resume with [word or phrase]."

Here are all the commands you can say to resume voice typing:

Resume

Resume with [word or phrase]

Go to the end of the paragraph

Move to the end of the paragraph

Go to the end of the line

Move to the end of the line

Go to [word]

Commands to open help

To open a list of voice commands in your document, say these commands:

Voice typing help

Voice commands list

See all voice commands

Speak (for accessibility)

To use these commands, turn on screen reader support. It's best to wear headphones so the screen reader feedback isn't typed into your document.

Speak cursor location

Speak from cursor location

Speak selection

Speak selection formatting

Speak table row and column headers

Speak table cell location

Speak table column header

Speak table row header

Troubleshoot

If voice typing isn't working, try these steps.

"We're having trouble hearing you"

If you see an error message that says "We're having trouble hearing you," try the following:

Move to a quiet room.

Plug in an external microphone.

Adjust the input volume on your microphone.

The microphone isn't working

If you can't get the microphone to work on your computer, try the following:

Make sure that the microphone isn't broken.

Check your microphone settings in your computer system preferences.

Check that your microphone is plugged in and is not being used by another application.

Move to a quiet room.

Restart your computer.

Voice commands aren't working

If voice commands aren't working, try the following:

Speak more slowly and clearly

Pause before and after each command. The text of your command might show in the document for a moment. For example, if you say "select all," the words "select all" show up before your text is selected.

The microphone shows a bubble containing the most recent command. Verify that Docs or Slides heard the right command. If not, you can simply say "Undo."

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Dyslexia

Microsoft Immersive Reader is a tool that provides multiple means of representation by offering features like text-to-speech, customizable fonts, spacing adjustments, and grammar highlighting (e.g., identifying nouns, verbs, and adjectives). These options help dyslexic students access and comprehend text in a way that best suits their needs.

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Where is Immersive Reader available?

Experience Immersive Reader in Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 or Windows 11.

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Select the text you want to read, then press and hold (or right-click) and select Open in Immersive Reader from the context menu.

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Dyslexia

Epic! is a digital reading platform with a vast collection of audiobooks and "Read-To-Me" books, which support dyslexic students by reading text aloud while highlighting words. This keeps students engaged by allowing them to enjoy stories and informational texts without the frustration of decoding. The interactive features, like quizzes and badges, also help sustain motivation and interest in reading.

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EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING

Storyboard that offers a variety of checklists to help students sequence steps to meet those goals of their assignments.

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Checklists are tools that can be used by students and teachers to make sure multi-step tasks stay on track. The templates make it easy to edit and adjust as needed.

Why Are They Important and How Are They Best Used?

A checklist can be modified to fit any project or need. Students can use them to help them keep track of which section of an assignment is due and when, along with progress notes. Teachers can use checklists to keep track of students' progress on large assignments, or as organizers for daily, weekly, or monthly administrative tasks.

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EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING

Popplet allows students to organize and connect their ideas in a simple and visually appealing way.

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EXECTIVE FUNCTIONING

Using Parlay, a teacher can have students respond verbally and in writing to prompts and provide feedback for each other.

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VISUAL IMPAIRMENT

Use auditory cues (like music) to transition between activities.

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VISUAL IMPAIRMENT

Text-To-Speech within a Google Doc can assist with verbal & written responses.

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Speechify allows users to power through docs, articles, PDFs, email by listening with its text-to-speech reader.

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