Assistive Technology

Audiobooks

Libby App - Free with library card

Sora by Overdrive (the school version of Libby)

Hoopla App - Free with library card

Audible - paid subscription

Digital Books with Audio

Bookshare - Free for students with disabilities  (mostly computer read)

Learning Ally - paid membership (human read)

MyON - (For younger students)

Text to Speech (Reading)

Google Read & Write - Chrome Extension - Free

Microsoft Office - Standard feature (Review Tab)

Google Docs - Standard feature (Accessibility feature)

Speak It! - Chrome Extension

Text to Speech with OCR (Optical Character Recognition)

This software can enable a camera to recognize text and read it aloud.

Apps built into Smartphone or Tablet (Apple Speak or Google Lens)

Speechify  (app also includes a chrome extension)

Natural Reader  (app also includes a chrome extension)

Speech to Text (Dictation)

Microsoft Office - Standard feature (Home Tab - Dictate)

Google Docs - Standard feature (Tools tab)

SnapType - Writing on worksheets

Word Prediction

Google Read & Write - Chrome Extension - Free

Ghotit 

Grammar and Spelling

Grammarly

Ghotit 

AI Tools

vnote.ai

Microsoft Co-pilot

Chat GPT

Digital Curriculum

Accessible Educational Materials (AEM)

Digital textbooks and related core materials are available from the curriculum publisher and accessible through a school platform such as Clever.   These are required through IDEA section 674(e)(2).  

National Instructional Materials Access Center