Assistive Technology for Reading

Abstract: Assistive technology enables students with both physical and learning disabilities to join their classmates and learn the same materials everyone else is learning (at the same time). Assistive technology enables to students with learning disabilities to become more independent when reading and to become able to read at their grade level. Assistive technology assists the literacy of students with learning disabilities in two ways: reading support and reading intervention. Text-reader software (speech to read, word prediction, read back, background knowledge, comprehension questions, and review) has become the latest technology in provided the previously mentioned support. Text-readers provide students with learning disabilities the ability to become efficient (speed and accuracy) at their grade reading level and provides them the emotional support they need so students with learning disabilities do not feel as if they are a burden to their teachers, their peers, or themselves (feeling stupid because they cannot do things as well or as quickly as everyone else). Click the link below to read more.

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