Assistive Technology Guide

Type of Tool: Software Task Used: Reading, Writing Description: Web browser, includes built-in spell check on all web page forms as well as voice searching capabilities Type of User: Students, Teachers, Parents, Personal Use Who Should Use?: People who need to spell check online and need speech-to-text services while searching the Internet

Type of Tool: Service Task Used: Reading Description: Cloud‐based service for reading,writing, study skills, and test taking Type of User: Students, Personal Use Who Should Use?: Anyone with reading supports including ability to OCR materials

Type of Tool: Service Task

Used: Reading

Description: Collection of more than 75,000 digitally recorded textbooks and literature titles in audiobook format

Type of User: Students, Personal Use

Who Should Use?: Students with visual print disabilities

Type of Tool: Service Task Used: Studying, Reading Description: Also available as app in Google and Apple stores and in Google Chrome Webstore. Great tool for creating own flashcards, self‐quizzing, and basic studying. Keeps track of all time spent studying. Type of User: Students, Teachers Who Should Use?: Anyone who needs to study!

Type of Tool: Service Task Used: Reading Description: Allows you to upload any picture to your Google Drive folder and Snapverter will make it readable to listen to with reading tool in Google Docs. Works really well with Read & Write for Google Docs. Currently only available for schools, not individual licenses. Type of User: Teachers Who Should Use?: Teachers/schools who need to digitize materials for students who need to use Read & Write for Google text-to‐speech services

Type of Tool: Software Task Used: Writing, Spelling Description: Reading and writing assistant for contextual and phonetic spell checker, proofreader, text-to-speech, and word prediction Type of User: Students, Parents, Personal Use Who Should Use?: Anyone who needs help with spelling specifically, and reading and writing in general

Type of Tool: Software Task Used: Writing, Spelling Description: Text reader, grammar checker, sentence rephraser, and personal writing trainer Type of User: Students, Parents, Personal Use Who Should Use?: Anyone who needs help with spelling specifically, and reading and writing in general

Type of Tool: Browser Plug-In Task Used: Writing Description: Grammarly corrects over 250 types of grammatical mistakes, while also catching contextual spelling errors and poor vocabulary usage. Premium/Paid version has downloadable software to work in Microsoft Office. Free version works online in browser only. Type of User: Students, Parents, Personal Use Who Should Use?: People who struggle with spelling, grammar, and written expressions

Type of Tool: Software Task Used: Writing, Concept Mapping Description: Outlining/concept mapping software Type of User: Students, Teachers, Parents, Personal Use Who Should Use?: People who want to incorporate organization, webbing, and concept mapping into writing and learning tasks

Type of Tool: Service Task Used: Reading, Writing Description: Free for teachers; works on most web pages through Google Chrome browser, and includes text‐to‐speech, dictionary, translator, word prediction, and study skills highlighters Type of User: Students, Parents, Personal Use Who Should Use?: People who need text-to-speech and word prediction services while searching the internet.