Assistive Technology and LD Students Hyde Park Day Schools Sarah Jennifer Coffey.

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Assistive Technology and LD Students Hyde Park Day Schools Sarah Jennifer Coffey

Assistive Hardware Alpha Smarts-allows you to enter and edit text, then send it to any computer via USB cord for formatting or directly to a printer. Books on Tape-offers textbooks and chapter books as audio recordings Illinois Network of Libraries Serving the Print Impaired-offers three different options for reading/listening to books on-line. Franklin spellers-electronic spell checker

Assistive Software Co-Writer—linguistic word prediction to any word processing or program. DraftBuilder—breaks down the writing process into three distinct skills: planning and concept mapping, note-taking and resource citing, and composing a first draft.

Assistive Software continued Write OutLoud—talking word processor. Inspiration/Kidspiration—visual webbing tool that inspires students to organize their thinking.

Assistive Software continued Dragon Naturally Speaking—enables students to dictate instead of typing or hand written work. iListen—Mac operating dictation program (but not recommended)