1. Assistive Technology and LD Students Hyde Park Day Schools Sarah Imboden—imboden@uchicago.edu Imboden—imboden@uchicago.edu Jennifer Coffey

2. 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. http://www2.alphasmart.com http://www2.alphasmart.com Books on Tape-offers textbooks and chapter books as audio recordings http://www.rfbd.org/ www.itunes.comhttp://www.rfbd.org/ www.itunes.com Illinois Network of Libraries Serving the Print Impaired-offers three different options for reading/listening to books on-line. http://www.ilkidszone.info http://www.ilkidszone.info Franklin spellers-electronic spell checker http://www.franklin.com http://www.franklin.com

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

4. Assistive Software continued Write OutLoud—talking word processor. http://www.donjohnston.com http://www.donjohnston.com Inspiration/Kidspiration—visual webbing tool that inspires students to organize their thinking. http://www.donjohnston.com http://www.donjohnston.com

5. Assistive Software continued Dragon Naturally Speaking—enables students to dictate instead of typing or hand written work. http://www.ScanSoft.com http://www.ScanSoft.com iListen—Mac operating dictation program (but not recommended) http://www.apple.com