AT and Reading! Are you Knowledagble on the tools?

As I have been in my blog, talking about how to improve our instruction in the classroom I had the pleasure to listen to a webinar on AT for Reading!

Here are some specific approaches to use:

Text readers
Screen readers
Electronic texts in power-points, word documents, pdf files, internet, bookshare.org, etc!

It was interesting to learn that high quality voices are an important component when getting software and reading materials. I had never thought of that and as they stated in the webinar, and that you should look for acapella voices.

Initially text to speech will not stop and summarize like teachers do or say "pay attention" to specific parts, so it's good to be able to modify your texts for your students! Another component I never thought of!

I feel this webinar gave great examples and tools to use and resources available to us and now we can have a better idea of what to choose for students!!

Check it out it was a great listen with some great info and food for thought!



What did you find most interesting from the webinar?

~ Michelle